Don't people hate it when insurance companies say, "You're a black male, and you have a 200W stereo in your car, so we're charging you double what a white girl with a 20W stereo would pay?"* So why do they, themselves, feel the need to label people that way?
In my opinion, insurance companies should be required to charge extra only on the basis of actual violations incurred. "You've been in 2 accidents that you were at fault for, totalling $10,000 damage. That puts you in a new insurance rate class."
Maybe I'll grant that they can start you off in a medium-risk category which you can graduate out of after 2-4 years, but even that shouldn't be based on age. Just years you've had a license combined with # of violations and how long ago they were.
It isn't so much the headline statement I have a problem with, after all, there are things each gender seems genetically predisposed to do better. However, it was the examples he went on to cite that move beyond provocative and into inflammatory.
Am I alone in... refusing to belive that even Verizon would do something so stunningly stupid.
Yeah, pretty much. You must not know verizon so well. This is pretty much par for the course for them.
This is a company that thought changing its name would make people not realise they were the same company that had such a bad customer service. I always love how a company changes its name and says "we're changing our name to serve you better!" Umm, yeah, there's a great speech about "what's in a name?"
Anyways, its morning, I'm at work on a holiday (a mostly ignored holiday, but still a holiday), and I'm rambling.
A laptop draws, say, 50 watts, so a user sitting for an hour will use 0.05 kWH, which, at about 14 cents/kWH, is about 0.7 cents. Now, even if the laptop is powerful and electricity is expensive, that's still only 2 cents per hour, max, that the customer will be consuming.
I think the bigger problem is customers filling seats for hours and not buying anything. Most restaurants and coffee shops are expected to have a certain turnover rate of customers throughout the day, so that by keeping the seats full they turn the profit required to keep in business.
The power requirements for an automobile as compared to its available surface area make this system only somewhat useful. A modern car needs around 20kW consistently to operate at highway speeds, up and down hills. (peak usage can top 100kW for short periods of time). Coating all surfaces of that same car will only get you maybe 150 square feet of area, or, roughly, assuming the hype is correct, about 9kW during daylight hours.
Though, I suppose that would be enough to seriously augment a hybrid vehicle's fuel source.
My biggest problem with NYC apartment listings is no measure of time. Postings will offer an apartment for $100 and others for $2000, to which I can't tell, is that $100/night in a great neighborhood or $100/week in a poor neighborhood, or $100/month in a deathtrap.
I'd just love if the price for rentals could somehow have a per-unit-of-time required.
You and I can enter into a supplemental agreement on top of copyright: you get the audio I recorded, you pay me $15, you promise not to let anyone else listen to it.
That's where I have an issue with how copyright is enforced. Copyright was written in such a way so that after a given period of time, the work passes into the public domain. DRM effectively prevents that. In my opinion, if you want to require a licence/contract to view your work, then your work should no longer be protected by copyright law. In effect, you should have to choose between contract and copyright protection for your product.
What? It did. RTFA I can't remember the unit offhand, but: cellphone:.5 - 1 tests:.3 to 2
RTFA more carefully, then. He was asking about frequency, which was the same question I had, measured in Hz (in cellphones, typically kHz & MHz). The figure you quote is watts as absorbed by the cells.
i'm not worried about the below zero C temps, i'm worried about temperature fluctuation. using a smaller than OEM fan will keep what warm air there is inside the case there a little longer, and should keep the insides of the case above 0C constantly.
I'd actually snip the hot fan wires and run them through an air conditioner thermostat. Set the thermostat to turn on above, say, 5C and let the heat generated by the processor and hard drives keep the case warm in winter.
Ok, I think I'm making an error in my math somewhere:
300W/12V=25A ; for 2 minutes = 833 mAH.
8 AA NiMH batteries can supply 12V, 2000mAH. So as far as I can tell, the biggest problem is the discharge rate, since each battery would be discharging at roughly (300W/1.2V/8 batteries) 31A. Which is probably enough to make them catch fire. The best you can generally get out of a battery is 5x it's capacity in discharge rate (5C), so a 2000mAH battery could be discharged at 10A. So that means we need at least 24 AA NiMH batteries. On the plus side, those 24 batteries at a discharge rate of 5C will give us about 8 minutes of shutdown time. A 24 pack of 2000mAH batteries can be found for $20 on froogle.
More math... that also means you need 3000 Coloumbs at 12 Volts, for a 250F capacitor. Obviously not practical. In particular, I think my math on this one is wrong...
Why haven't all the old lines that were created come up with any results?
Because the old lines were inferior and research was still being conducted into how to properly create and maintain a line. At this point, as has been noted, the old lines are pretty much useless.
Also, as I recall, he didn't just prevent federal funding for new lines, but he applied the caveat that if you work on any new lines, all your federal funding is gone, even for unrelated projects. That pretty much equates to a chilling effect. Conveniently, it also means that there will never be useful results, so obviously they were useless to begin with, right?
Also, the technology itself is still less than 7 years old. It isn't surprising that adult cells are more useful in the short term, since they've already been assigned to a fairly restrictive set of possible cell types, less work needs to be done to make them turn into whatever you want. An important part of embryonic stem cell research is coaxing different cell types out of the same initial cell group.
I see no problem what so ever using this kind of technology with kids.
But using the technology also initiates children to the idea that its perfectly normal for an authority to monitor their every movement, so 10 years down the line, when tags like this are required for government business or even just your time tracking, there will be no questions asked.
Its the implication that what I consider my right to privacy is slowly eroding away in the face of advancing technology.
I think simply asserting that they can't is an oversimplification. They also can't hold foreign citizens taken during a military conflict indefinitely and without recourse because that would violate treaties relating to POW's. But they do, because if they don't call them POW's then the rule doesn't apply. Would the government not use the same logic to justify circumventing the treaty, while at the same time enforcing it for other countries?
Something else of note... this indicates that the celestial bodies are restricted in use to States Parties. Exactly where do "independent contractors" (today's political phrase for "mercenaries") fit into that? Could the US government just contract out the militarization of the moon to Haliburton and still be, legally, in the clear on this treaty?
If, however, it should turn out that he has won Ohio, for example, when all the ballots are counted, then he will still gain Ohio's electoral votes and, presumably, the presidency,
As a Red Sox fan, I'm entirely confident that it WILL HAPPEN.
Fortunately, as a Red Sox fan, I'm also used to dissapointment.
Silly me. Of course! I should have counted not only the terrorists who flew the planes into the WTC and the Pentagon, but also all the people who designed and built the planes, the guys who filled-them-up at the various airports they took-off from and, lastly, the security flunkies who let them through...
Well, as far as the comparison the the enola gay, you need only count the people who performed malicious acts. Such as building, testing, and designing the bomb, gathering reconaissance for the particular mission, and setting up the flight plan for the mission. With the WTC attacks, I ignored those who actually trained them, since those were people being paid for training that they assumed was ordinary flight training. I ignored those who prepared the planes for flight, since the flight planned was a cross country flight. I question the idea of ignoring the people who specifically sent money for the operation and planned the event.
So, a high powered rifle at a distance is dangerous too and they let the ban on assault rifles run out contrary to campaign promises.
The weapons that were banned by the assault weapon ban shot large quantities of bullets, fairly poorly. The weapon you'd want to use for a sniper operation would be a long bore rifle with a long shell, generally made with a very small number of shots. If you can't do it with one shot, your cover is blown.
So, basically, the argument is moot, because the ban didn't ban rifles that could be used as effective sniper weapons.
The Enola Gay crew were only a part of the number of people that need to be counted that day. There were dozens of scientists and military personnel that went into that operation.
The quote about 10 dedicated men implies that the number is only 10, no more. It only vaguely applies to the 9/11 attacks, because after funding, each cell operated largely autonomously, and had to deal with their own training through only a loose network of operatives.
The problem with a color scheme like this is some people (like me) think its just downright ugly. Beige is fairly neutral, pretty much everyone dislikes it just a little, instead of some people just hating it.
Now what I want is wallpaper that can change color, something like the smart paper being developed where colored balls are suspended in a layer over the paper and can be moved towards or further from the layer to generate different apparent colors, or colored different on two sides and rotated between those 2 shades to generate the desired appearance. The tech isn't fast enough to watch the news on, but its fine for a static image, and doesn't really require any power to maintain.
Then I can make my whole wall green on days where I'm not too focused, and red on days where I want some boost.
The internal terminals are all wired, but even if they had been wireless, surely they would have been hooked up to the encrypted AP that the library operates side-by-side with the open AP?
Since I can find no information on the library's website indicating the availability of a public wifi station, I feel I have insufficient information on this. Since all of the information on the library's website points to the provided terminals as the sole internet access method, and comments here indicate that there is also an encrypted library wifi, there are 2 options. First, the open wifi is intended to be used by the public and notices are posted in the library. Second, the open wifi is on the library's network unintentionally, either because an employee plugged it in or because there was an unintentional failure to secure it.
Lacking evidence of the first I tend to lean toward the second.
Not really. It brings us to the argument of whether an open wifi point can be considered private.
That's the same argument, by "private" I was referring to a something not intended to be used by the public, and the argument is whether anyone should be allowed to use it, i.e., intended versus effective status.
"Our reference book collection is complemented by online databases and free Internet access for our patrons."
However, the list also includes:
8. Users must sign up to use the Internet on a next-available-terminal basis. Terminals will not be "reserved" for persons who are not in the immediate vicinity when their name is called, and telephone reservations will not be taken.
And makes no mention of wireless access. Nowhere is there a listing in the AUP of wireless service, and all of the regulations point towards use being limited to the provided terminals. It therefore stands to reason that the wifi network is an internal system not intended for the public, and therefore not a public wifi point.
That brings us back to the argument of whether a open but private wifi point can be used by anyone.
Its the same level as me stealing anything that takes my fancy from my neighbors houses, and when nabbed by the police, claiming that its ok, because I will return anything if they just ask.
You're missing a critical element. It appears that he's distributing the source as well as the binary. The GPL does allow for reasonable charges for distribution, and as long as the recipients of the code can use it per the GPL, he isn't in violation of the GPL.
The interesting thing is that if he's distributing the application as shareware, he needs to be distributing the time limited code to anyone who receives the time limited binary, and the non-limited code to people who buy the unlimited binary.
And for those of us outside the US, can is slang for a urinal. So this company produced a self cooling urinal, cause you know how slippery those things can get when you've been sitting on it for a while and start sweating.
Which has yet another meaning to those in the US. In the US, the urinal is what a male uses standing up. You don't sit on one. Now, a toilet you sit on, so to treat it as US slang he created a tiny self cooling toilet.
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In my opinion, insurance companies should be required to charge extra only on the basis of actual violations incurred. "You've been in 2 accidents that you were at fault for, totalling $10,000 damage. That puts you in a new insurance rate class."
Maybe I'll grant that they can start you off in a medium-risk category which you can graduate out of after 2-4 years, but even that shouldn't be based on age. Just years you've had a license combined with # of violations and how long ago they were.
It isn't so much the headline statement I have a problem with, after all, there are things each gender seems genetically predisposed to do better. However, it was the examples he went on to cite that move beyond provocative and into inflammatory.
I think it was NYNEX, IIRC. But reading that list is amazing... its a who's who of companies I'd heard bad things about.
Yeah, pretty much. You must not know verizon so well. This is pretty much par for the course for them.
This is a company that thought changing its name would make people not realise they were the same company that had such a bad customer service. I always love how a company changes its name and says "we're changing our name to serve you better!" Umm, yeah, there's a great speech about "what's in a name?"
Anyways, its morning, I'm at work on a holiday (a mostly ignored holiday, but still a holiday), and I'm rambling.
A laptop draws, say, 50 watts, so a user sitting for an hour will use 0.05 kWH, which, at about 14 cents/kWH, is about 0.7 cents. Now, even if the laptop is powerful and electricity is expensive, that's still only 2 cents per hour, max, that the customer will be consuming. I think the bigger problem is customers filling seats for hours and not buying anything. Most restaurants and coffee shops are expected to have a certain turnover rate of customers throughout the day, so that by keeping the seats full they turn the profit required to keep in business.
The power requirements for an automobile as compared to its available surface area make this system only somewhat useful. A modern car needs around 20kW consistently to operate at highway speeds, up and down hills. (peak usage can top 100kW for short periods of time). Coating all surfaces of that same car will only get you maybe 150 square feet of area, or, roughly, assuming the hype is correct, about 9kW during daylight hours. Though, I suppose that would be enough to seriously augment a hybrid vehicle's fuel source.
My biggest problem with NYC apartment listings is no measure of time. Postings will offer an apartment for $100 and others for $2000, to which I can't tell, is that $100/night in a great neighborhood or $100/week in a poor neighborhood, or $100/month in a deathtrap. I'd just love if the price for rentals could somehow have a per-unit-of-time required.
That's where I have an issue with how copyright is enforced. Copyright was written in such a way so that after a given period of time, the work passes into the public domain. DRM effectively prevents that. In my opinion, if you want to require a licence/contract to view your work, then your work should no longer be protected by copyright law. In effect, you should have to choose between contract and copyright protection for your product.
Ok, I think I'm making an error in my math somewhere:
300W/12V=25A ; for 2 minutes = 833 mAH.
8 AA NiMH batteries can supply 12V, 2000mAH. So as far as I can tell, the biggest problem is the discharge rate, since each battery would be discharging at roughly (300W/1.2V/8 batteries) 31A. Which is probably enough to make them catch fire. The best you can generally get out of a battery is 5x it's capacity in discharge rate (5C), so a 2000mAH battery could be discharged at 10A. So that means we need at least 24 AA NiMH batteries. On the plus side, those 24 batteries at a discharge rate of 5C will give us about 8 minutes of shutdown time. A 24 pack of 2000mAH batteries can be found for $20 on froogle.
More math... that also means you need 3000 Coloumbs at 12 Volts, for a 250F capacitor. Obviously not practical. In particular, I think my math on this one is wrong...
Also, as I recall, he didn't just prevent federal funding for new lines, but he applied the caveat that if you work on any new lines, all your federal funding is gone, even for unrelated projects. That pretty much equates to a chilling effect. Conveniently, it also means that there will never be useful results, so obviously they were useless to begin with, right?
Also, the technology itself is still less than 7 years old. It isn't surprising that adult cells are more useful in the short term, since they've already been assigned to a fairly restrictive set of possible cell types, less work needs to be done to make them turn into whatever you want. An important part of embryonic stem cell research is coaxing different cell types out of the same initial cell group.
But using the technology also initiates children to the idea that its perfectly normal for an authority to monitor their every movement, so 10 years down the line, when tags like this are required for government business or even just your time tracking, there will be no questions asked.
Its the implication that what I consider my right to privacy is slowly eroding away in the face of advancing technology.
I think simply asserting that they can't is an oversimplification. They also can't hold foreign citizens taken during a military conflict indefinitely and without recourse because that would violate treaties relating to POW's. But they do, because if they don't call them POW's then the rule doesn't apply. Would the government not use the same logic to justify circumventing the treaty, while at the same time enforcing it for other countries?
Something else of note... this indicates that the celestial bodies are restricted in use to States Parties. Exactly where do "independent contractors" (today's political phrase for "mercenaries") fit into that? Could the US government just contract out the militarization of the moon to Haliburton and still be, legally, in the clear on this treaty?
As a Red Sox fan, I'm entirely confident that it WILL HAPPEN.
Fortunately, as a Red Sox fan, I'm also used to dissapointment.
Well, as far as the comparison the the enola gay, you need only count the people who performed malicious acts. Such as building, testing, and designing the bomb, gathering reconaissance for the particular mission, and setting up the flight plan for the mission. With the WTC attacks, I ignored those who actually trained them, since those were people being paid for training that they assumed was ordinary flight training. I ignored those who prepared the planes for flight, since the flight planned was a cross country flight. I question the idea of ignoring the people who specifically sent money for the operation and planned the event.
The weapons that were banned by the assault weapon ban shot large quantities of bullets, fairly poorly. The weapon you'd want to use for a sniper operation would be a long bore rifle with a long shell, generally made with a very small number of shots. If you can't do it with one shot, your cover is blown.
So, basically, the argument is moot, because the ban didn't ban rifles that could be used as effective sniper weapons.
The quote about 10 dedicated men implies that the number is only 10, no more. It only vaguely applies to the 9/11 attacks, because after funding, each cell operated largely autonomously, and had to deal with their own training through only a loose network of operatives.
Now what I want is wallpaper that can change color, something like the smart paper being developed where colored balls are suspended in a layer over the paper and can be moved towards or further from the layer to generate different apparent colors, or colored different on two sides and rotated between those 2 shades to generate the desired appearance. The tech isn't fast enough to watch the news on, but its fine for a static image, and doesn't really require any power to maintain.
Then I can make my whole wall green on days where I'm not too focused, and red on days where I want some boost.
Since I can find no information on the library's website indicating the availability of a public wifi station, I feel I have insufficient information on this. Since all of the information on the library's website points to the provided terminals as the sole internet access method, and comments here indicate that there is also an encrypted library wifi, there are 2 options. First, the open wifi is intended to be used by the public and notices are posted in the library. Second, the open wifi is on the library's network unintentionally, either because an employee plugged it in or because there was an unintentional failure to secure it.
Lacking evidence of the first I tend to lean toward the second.
That's the same argument, by "private" I was referring to a something not intended to be used by the public, and the argument is whether anyone should be allowed to use it, i.e., intended versus effective status.
However, the list also includes:
And makes no mention of wireless access. Nowhere is there a listing in the AUP of wireless service, and all of the regulations point towards use being limited to the provided terminals. It therefore stands to reason that the wifi network is an internal system not intended for the public, and therefore not a public wifi point.
That brings us back to the argument of whether a open but private wifi point can be used by anyone.
You're missing a critical element. It appears that he's distributing the source as well as the binary. The GPL does allow for reasonable charges for distribution, and as long as the recipients of the code can use it per the GPL, he isn't in violation of the GPL.
The interesting thing is that if he's distributing the application as shareware, he needs to be distributing the time limited code to anyone who receives the time limited binary, and the non-limited code to people who buy the unlimited binary.
Which has yet another meaning to those in the US. In the US, the urinal is what a male uses standing up. You don't sit on one. Now, a toilet you sit on, so to treat it as US slang he created a tiny self cooling toilet.
When it happens to the extent that you can't retain anything from a conversation, consistently, it becomes a problem.
Also, this is not a sole indicator of an underlying problem, you need a combination of a number of problems that culminate in a diagnosis.