When you start off flying commercial, almost every starts at a regional airline. You may be buying a United or Continental ticket, but it's a seperate airline that codeshares with the big boys. Those co-pilots on those aircraft are making between $18K-28K/year, are only paid from when the cabin door closes until it opens at the destination, and have their schedules dicked with by the airline's scheduling/routing department so that, while technically compliant with labor laws, they're extremely exhausting and some even nap in the cabin. Keep this in mind the next time you shop for your airline ticket based on price.
To help reduce consumption, in 1974 a national maximum speed limit of 55 mph (about 88 km/h) was imposed through the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act. Development of the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve began in 1975, and in 1977, the cabinet-level Department of Energy was created, followed by the National Energy Act of 1978.
While each vehicle reaches its optimal fuel economy at a different speed (or range of speeds), gas mileage usually decreases rapidly at speeds above 60 mph.
You can assume that each 5 mph you drive over 60 mph is like paying an additional $0.24 per gallon for gas.
Several years ago, in my early twenties, myself and two friends went to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Drinking in our hotel room before going out on Bourbon St, we thought, heh, lets post on Craigslist and see who is out there. So we posted in the mm4w section (use your imagination for what we wrote). I kid you not, within 30 seconds, we started receiving emails. The first one was from someone who wrote "Since its Mardi Gras, you boys should have no problem finding what you're looking for, but if you're looking for a late-40's tranny, you let me know".
After working in the adult entertainment industry on the tech side, let me tell you that you're half-correct. Some girls do it because they're desperate. The other side of it (that you get wrong) is that there are girls who enjoy making $150K+/yr from sex. Hence, the need for a regulated sex industry (see: Amsterdam).
You know the crazy folks who put abortion doctors' names up on a website, and gray them out when those doctors are injured by someone (and they strike them out when they're killed)? Wait till that starts happening to law firms who are copyright sue happy because it's an easy buck due to how the system is rigged. I'm sure one of these law firms is going to go after the wrong person who gets financially broken by ~$3000.
I love the PopcornHour boxes, but I don't believe they stream Netflix at all, which pushes me towards the Seagate box that does almost everything the PopcornHour box does (and also streams Netflix).
All depends on the C level folks. Some are downright fucking morons (I'm looking at you Mark Hurd. Who screws with their expense account records when you make an 8 figure salary?). Some (like Warren Buffet) have a knack for picking out value and growing it in an ethical manner. As always, YMMV.
Yeaahhhhh! Only half a mile instead of a full mile underwater! (5280 ft = mile, 6000 ft = nautical mile). Shallow water is usually considered 600-1000 ft underwater.
The problem is cash sitting around doing nothing. NPR was running a story yesterday talking about how the top 120 companies have over $1 trillion of cash sitting around, and investors are demanding they either distribute it to them via dividends or invest it via mergers and acquisitions. So, yeah, if it's either earning 0.5 percent in a money market account or buying up a ton of relatively cheap companies with the potential for a much larger return, you go on a spending spree and buy up whatever you think is going to have a decent ROI.
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As long as people are willing to put up with quite a bit of agony for a low ticket price, Ryanair will exist.
Frontline: Flying Cheap: "A hard look at the risks that may go with cheap flying."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/flyingcheap/
When you start off flying commercial, almost every starts at a regional airline. You may be buying a United or Continental ticket, but it's a seperate airline that codeshares with the big boys. Those co-pilots on those aircraft are making between $18K-28K/year, are only paid from when the cabin door closes until it opens at the destination, and have their schedules dicked with by the airline's scheduling/routing department so that, while technically compliant with labor laws, they're extremely exhausting and some even nap in the cabin. Keep this in mind the next time you shop for your airline ticket based on price.
Now *that* is German engineering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis#Conservation_and_reduction_in_demand
To help reduce consumption, in 1974 a national maximum speed limit of 55 mph (about 88 km/h) was imposed through the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act. Development of the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve began in 1975, and in 1977, the cabinet-level Department of Energy was created, followed by the National Energy Act of 1978.
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/drivehabits.shtml
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/images/speedVsMpg3.gif
While each vehicle reaches its optimal fuel economy at a different speed (or range of speeds), gas mileage usually decreases rapidly at speeds above 60 mph.
You can assume that each 5 mph you drive over 60 mph is like paying an additional $0.24 per gallon for gas.
"Speeding" isn't illegal if the state has given you permission. The driver will still be the liable party.
ASIC vs generic CPU analogy FTW!
Cool story bro time.
Several years ago, in my early twenties, myself and two friends went to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Drinking in our hotel room before going out on Bourbon St, we thought, heh, lets post on Craigslist and see who is out there. So we posted in the mm4w section (use your imagination for what we wrote). I kid you not, within 30 seconds, we started receiving emails. The first one was from someone who wrote "Since its Mardi Gras, you boys should have no problem finding what you're looking for, but if you're looking for a late-40's tranny, you let me know".
Scariest. Craigslist. Experience. Ever.
After working in the adult entertainment industry on the tech side, let me tell you that you're half-correct. Some girls do it because they're desperate. The other side of it (that you get wrong) is that there are girls who enjoy making $150K+/yr from sex. Hence, the need for a regulated sex industry (see: Amsterdam).
And demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars per "infringed" song isn't insane?
Well the Beatles and Rolling Stones made hundreds of millions more than the Grateful Dead by not making their music free.
They might not had made hundreds of millions of dollars if not for insane copyright law.
You know the crazy folks who put abortion doctors' names up on a website, and gray them out when those doctors are injured by someone (and they strike them out when they're killed)? Wait till that starts happening to law firms who are copyright sue happy because it's an easy buck due to how the system is rigged. I'm sure one of these law firms is going to go after the wrong person who gets financially broken by ~$3000.
"What is your favorite kind of porn?"/"Who is your favorite porn star?"
Notice that they're too busy working on finding holes in Chrome to be working on Adobe products ;)
I kid!
It have a spot for a hard drive?
I love the PopcornHour boxes, but I don't believe they stream Netflix at all, which pushes me towards the Seagate box that does almost everything the PopcornHour box does (and also streams Netflix).
They stream Netflix?
Seagate's does everything the Western Digital box does, plus it does Netflix Streaming. It's also $100 without a hard drive.
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/home_entertainment/freeagent_theater_plus/
Doesn't do Netflix Instant Streaming =(
All depends on the C level folks. Some are downright fucking morons (I'm looking at you Mark Hurd. Who screws with their expense account records when you make an 8 figure salary?). Some (like Warren Buffet) have a knack for picking out value and growing it in an ethical manner. As always, YMMV.
Yeaahhhhh! Only half a mile instead of a full mile underwater! (5280 ft = mile, 6000 ft = nautical mile). Shallow water is usually considered 600-1000 ft underwater.
The problem is cash sitting around doing nothing. NPR was running a story yesterday talking about how the top 120 companies have over $1 trillion of cash sitting around, and investors are demanding they either distribute it to them via dividends or invest it via mergers and acquisitions. So, yeah, if it's either earning 0.5 percent in a money market account or buying up a ton of relatively cheap companies with the potential for a much larger return, you go on a spending spree and buy up whatever you think is going to have a decent ROI.
It applies if Wikileaks has either people in the US or equipment, or if anyone from it's org wants to step foot on US soil.
This. Oracle: For when you couldn't figure out how to run PostgreSQL and had millions of dollars to blow.
Google initially used MySQL for Adwords, tried to switch away from it, and then switched back (if I recall correctly). Your Googling May Vary.
THIS. Always assume the next layer up is compromised.