Lots of young people think they can just pay for their medical costs in cash. I have bad news, your twenties and thirties are not the expensive parts of your life in terms of medical care.
-This conflict on health care will continue to escalate and intensify until the ruling class backs down.
The ruling class are the people who own the insurance companies and such, they're not actually the friend of the working man, they just want your money.
Gloom and doom never gets old. We were definitely doomed in 2000 also. And 1994.
I don't think Sarbanes-Oxley has anything to do with the number of IPOs. IPOs are such a ridiculous money making scam that increasing the overhead a few percent isn't doing to dampen anything. I'd say the reduction in the number of IPOs is more to do with the stock market in the toilet than anything. Companies don't go public to succeed anymore, they go public to get a huge stock pop, and you won't get that right now. You're right about the changes in stock options to low-level employees, but my understanding is there are no new rules, companies are voluntarily expensing stock options now. Which, to be honest, they should have done all along. The tax rate will be 60%? Marginal tax rates aren't even at 30% for most people right now. Remember, it's Silicon Valley, your house costs $600,000 and the tax on the interest is deductible. I know people with 14 exemptions on their W-4, virtually all of which come from them paying $28,000 in interest on their house each year. That means if you're making $100,000, 28% of your income isn't subject or state or local taxes at all!
- And don't forget that everyone knows businesses are villains and rich businessmen are hated. Why subject yourself to all that for such low after-tax gains?
Good point, now what are you going to do with your business degree? I'd be lying if I said I was disappointed that your ilk might no longer be rushing to Silicon Valley to make their money for nothing but calling themselves executives and quoting tax regulations.
That's incorrect. Emissions standards for cars are per mile, not parts per million or per volume of exhaust. Plus, generators like you talk of are qualified to a far far looser standards than cars.
If everyone just skirts the rules, they sure can save a little money. But our environment cannot afford it.
If you want a vehicle that goes on electricity for short trips and gas for long ones, get an EREV like the Chevy Volt. It is incredibly clean when the gas engine is off and as clean as a regular car when it is on. Unlike your generator.
Next time you write into that block, this operation will be performed anyway. This is why some SSDs have huge delays on writes, because they delay your write until the data merging is done. Also, not every block needs merging anyway, an area of a file that spans 512K (128 pages) is written in one chunk anyway and never needs re-merging.
To be honest, the data retention time on NAND (where the data just drains out like DRAM) is becoming as big a factor as write wear anyway. You're going to have to move the data around a little to make sure it stays valid.
Honestly, I'm pretty spooked about SSDs right now, the only reason I use one is a friend gave it to me for free to test.
It's due to a limitation in how the BIOS in your machine works. Virtually none can boot off any drive other than the 1st IDE device. So if you want to boot off a 2nd drive, you really boot the first sector and loader (sectors 1-62, LILO/GRUB style) off the 1st IDE device then continue off the other drive.
To do it any other way wouldn't work with any machine out there except perhaps EFI machines.
Here's the problem, if you're using more then 5HP from the Leaf motor, then your generator won't be able to keep up with the depletion. And you will be using more than 5HP from the Leaf motor.
The car runs down 24kWh in 2 hours (at 50mph), that's 12kW. 1HP is about 600W, so that's 20HP usage by this vehicle as you go. So if you put in 5HP from the generator, you'll only reduce the net draw from the battery from 20HP to 15HP, so you'll only increase the range to 133 miles.
I find it amazing you brag about how your generator doesn't meet emissions standards. Emissions standards are there for a reason.
Free "for non-commercial use" is not libre. Also, you cannot recompile run it on devices without paying $99 to Apple. This isn't because the tools cost money, it's because Apple must sign the code to run it and thus Apple controls who runs it (and charges for it). This is exactly the TiVo case.
And I'm not spreading FUD. For starters, I'm not spreading anything. I'm just commenting.
I think that section is more to cover "transport fees". That is, the fee to actually download it, not to buy it.
Besides, they're not downloading it from his site, they're downloading it from Apple's site. So Apple's 30% cut is covered by this section, not the developer's 70%.
I personally am quite certain this situation is equivalent to the one that brought about the GPLv3. In this case, the source is given out but it's useless to most people in terms of recreating the actual binaries (because you cannot make the binaries runnable, only Apple can, by signing them).
So it would be (I would thing) unethical in RMS' mind and therefore presumably against the spirit of the GPL. It's quite likely even giving away the program on the app store would also be unethical, because you still cannot modify it, recompile it and run it unless you pay Apple $100.
Of course, this code isn't GPLv3, it's GPLv2, so these guys likely aren't in any legal trouble, they're within the letter of the rules, just outside the spirit of them.
I'm not kidding, there's nothing magic about water. If you keep a cordon area around it on land it's no different from water, it might even be better since you don't have to worry about currents carrying stuff around.
The issues with 25frames/50fields per second aren't new with the development of HD. Why is someone trying to relate the two?
50 fields is a lot, you can certainly play fast-paced game with those framerates quite well.
And Killzone 2's controls are not "already somewhat laggy". It responds just fine on my HDTV. Who comes up with this stuff? Maybe the author has various laggy upscaling systems turned on on his TV (tweener circuits are near ubiquitous on recent PAL TVs since 50Hz is noticeably flickery to a lot of people).
But the BlackBerry doesn't store the encryption key in-the-clear like the iPhone 3G S does, and you can't run arbitrary code on a BlackBerry just by plugging it in to a PC.
Again, my point was that YOU can't. That doesn't mean it's not possible to do so, you have no proof this cannot be done. Sure, the BlackBerry is supposed to be secured. The iPhone was also supposed to be.
Either way, if you only have to enter a 4-digit number to get in, then even if the device slows down accepting PINs after a while
No; the BlackBerry (or even the iPhone!) would be configured to wipe the device after a few invalid password attempts. My (corporate managed) BlackBerry wipes the device after 10 invalid password attempts, and my password is longer than 4 characters (and includes non-digits.)
Do me a favor, how about you don't prune off the important part of my message.
Here is my paragraph:
Either way, if you only have to enter a 4-digit number to get in, then even if the device slows down accepting PINs after a while, if you could pry it open and get the data off, all you need to do is try 10,000 combinations and you'll find one that decrypts the internal key needed to view the data on it.
That's why I said you would pry the device open and get the data off. What I am saying is that any device that can be unlocked with a 4-digit code has enough information on it to completely decrypt itself based upon only providing a 14-bit (10,000 combinations) piece of information. I explicitly did NOT say you could sit there and try to guess the code by entering it repeatedly. But you pruned that off, so you could say my statement is incorrect.
It's the same as if I had a 4,000 bit key but I store it inside my house. All you need to do is open my front door (my front door has a lock with only 100,000 combinations) to get inside and get the key.
It may be difficult to get the right data needed to run the 10,000 combinations through the system (sorry for rapid-fire switching back to the other example) offline, but it is there. If you can exploit your way into the Blackberry like you can the iPhone, then you're a long way down the road.
The iPhone also has a setting to wipe after a number of attempts. That was not my point. I didn't say you were going to try to enter 10,000 codes. I said the information necessary to decode the data was in the unit.
An iPhone is also backed up every time you sync it, you can restore a new phone to be exactly like yours in no time. Apple mentioned this when they announce the remote wipe function of "find my iPhone".
Did you ask yourself that? If that Blackberry is just sitting there, even asking for a passcode, is it still receiving and storing data? It is, it can receive SMSes for example. It knows how to decrypt everything on itself with the information it has. The only difference between it and an iPhone in this case is the hacker doesn't know how to get the data off, not that it is impossible to do so.
Maybe a Blackberry has a hardened mode, where it goes inert when you lock it, where it won't receive data because it has forgotten the key to its own storage.
Either way, if you only have to enter a 4-digit number to get in, then even if the device slows down accepting PINs after a while, if you could pry it open and get the data off, all you need to do is try 10,000 combinations and you'll find one that decrypts the internal key needed to view the data on it.
This trailer is far better than the real trailer. I watch it 2-3 times a day. I'm much more interested in this movie now than I would have from the normal trailers.
I suggest you read it again. The article says they collect the books that are sold at the end of semesters.
'While Chegg primarily rents books, it is also essentially acting as a kind of "market maker," gathering books from sellers at the end of a semester and renting -- or sometimes selling -- them to other students at the start of a new one.'
And from their site: 'All rental books are like new or good. '
Note it doesn't say the rental books ARE new, they are "like" new.
College textbooks have limited re-use because the publishers make new editions strictly of the purpose of obsoleting them so people don't buy used books and are forced (or at least encouraged) to buy new ones instead.
Renting something that only can be used 2-3 times means you end up paying a LOT to rent it. If the company who rents it is to make a profit, they have to charge a significant fraction of the price of the item to rent it.
For example, in the article, $69 (including shipping) to rent a book that retails for $123. You can probably find it used for $85 and sell it again when you are done (for peanuts).
A/C does not require 3-phase, how ridiculous. There are plenty of gas stations in my area (California!) that have a smaller building than my house, they don't need 3-phase to cool that.
The total wire area should be over 1 1/4" for 600A, but either way, the hoses we use for gas are much much lighter than a the cables are.
Using gas or Diesel tanks for a heat sink is ridiculous. It's supposed to be safe, but if anything goes wrong, your liability would be enormous.
Either way, that's not going to fix the heat problem in the battery pack itself. The pack isn't going to heat up any less when being charged in 10 minutes than it would being discharged in 10 minutes, and on the Tesla roadster it reduces performance after a few minutes of max effort to reduce the heat, and that's only a discharge rate which would empty it in a bit over 20 minutes!
Oh, now I'm going to rent a car? So now I don't need a rest?
People are ready to make all kinds of excuses as to why short range cars are okay. Many of them are even accurate. The problem is that consumers don't seem to agree with the arguments. People are using to paying a little and getting more car than they need. Getting them to warm up to the idea of paying a lot and getting less car than they need is going to take a lot f convincing.
In the mean time, turns out 300 miles is not sufficient range, which is the point I refuted.
I think it's hilarious you would just tell someone they have to spend more than 20% of their trip (25% if you subtract out the 8 hours sleeping) waiting for their car to charge. And they should be thankful for it.
I mean, if I wanted to spend 8 hours walking around an RV park, I can do that on a trip I take with my gas car. So there's no advantage to being forced to do it.
This guy took a trip where he never went over 80% of rated range of his car in a day and he still felt he had to stop to recharge it during the day 3 times in two days! If nothing else, range anxiety is a huge issue.
Let's assume they're talking about the same pack as in the Roadster (even though the pack you get for $57.4K is lesser capacity). That means you're putting in 45kWh in 10 minutes. That's a charge rate of more than 270kW. That will require 440V power (3-phase) at 600A! And that's assuming 100% efficiency!
There's going to be a lot of places where you can't get that much power. And even if you can, the amount of waste heat giving off by the charger, and in the pack will be very difficult to manage. Also, the charging cable would be a bit of a hassle to wrestle because it's going to be very thick.
The battery pack you get for $57.4K (the cheapest model) is a 160 mile pack, not a 300 mile pack.
And you aren't going to be able to fully charge it in 45 minutes. LIons just won't stand for it. You should be able to put 85% of the charge in in 45 minutes, but since it such rapid charging reduces the lifespan of the battery, Tesla doesn't recommend you charge it in 45 minutes (at least they don't recommend it for the Roadster, this has a similar pack so I presume this is the same).
Acceptable range is kind of a tricky idea, if you had a charger everywhere, then this might be okay. But instead, you are likely to drive to your range and find there is no place to charge it at your stopover or destination.
Here's an example of how the difficulties in recharging an electric car makes it less useful than a gas car.
This guy took a 40 hour trip and spent 8 hours of it waiting for his car to charge. 4 hours walking (twice) around an RV park waiting for his car to charge to 88%.
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It's "dust off and nuke the site from orbit".
Why did I say state and local taxes when I meant state or federal taxes? Sorry about that.
Lots of young people think they can just pay for their medical costs in cash. I have bad news, your twenties and thirties are not the expensive parts of your life in terms of medical care.
-This conflict on health care will continue to escalate and intensify until the ruling class backs down.
The ruling class are the people who own the insurance companies and such, they're not actually the friend of the working man, they just want your money.
Gloom and doom never gets old. We were definitely doomed in 2000 also. And 1994.
I don't think Sarbanes-Oxley has anything to do with the number of IPOs. IPOs are such a ridiculous money making scam that increasing the overhead a few percent isn't doing to dampen anything. I'd say the reduction in the number of IPOs is more to do with the stock market in the toilet than anything. Companies don't go public to succeed anymore, they go public to get a huge stock pop, and you won't get that right now.
You're right about the changes in stock options to low-level employees, but my understanding is there are no new rules, companies are voluntarily expensing stock options now. Which, to be honest, they should have done all along.
The tax rate will be 60%? Marginal tax rates aren't even at 30% for most people right now. Remember, it's Silicon Valley, your house costs $600,000 and the tax on the interest is deductible. I know people with 14 exemptions on their W-4, virtually all of which come from them paying $28,000 in interest on their house each year. That means if you're making $100,000, 28% of your income isn't subject or state or local taxes at all!
- And don't forget that everyone knows businesses are villains and rich businessmen are hated. Why subject yourself to all that for such low after-tax gains?
Good point, now what are you going to do with your business degree? I'd be lying if I said I was disappointed that your ilk might no longer be rushing to Silicon Valley to make their money for nothing but calling themselves executives and quoting tax regulations.
It only runs 23.976 when converted to TV.
And film IS noticeably juddery. We'd be much better served with a 48fps film standard.
That's incorrect. Emissions standards for cars are per mile, not parts per million or per volume of exhaust. Plus, generators like you talk of are qualified to a far far looser standards than cars.
If everyone just skirts the rules, they sure can save a little money. But our environment cannot afford it.
If you want a vehicle that goes on electricity for short trips and gas for long ones, get an EREV like the Chevy Volt. It is incredibly clean when the gas engine is off and as clean as a regular car when it is on. Unlike your generator.
Next time you write into that block, this operation will be performed anyway. This is why some SSDs have huge delays on writes, because they delay your write until the data merging is done. Also, not every block needs merging anyway, an area of a file that spans 512K (128 pages) is written in one chunk anyway and never needs re-merging.
To be honest, the data retention time on NAND (where the data just drains out like DRAM) is becoming as big a factor as write wear anyway. You're going to have to move the data around a little to make sure it stays valid.
Honestly, I'm pretty spooked about SSDs right now, the only reason I use one is a friend gave it to me for free to test.
This is always the case.
It's due to a limitation in how the BIOS in your machine works. Virtually none can boot off any drive other than the 1st IDE device. So if you want to boot off a 2nd drive, you really boot the first sector and loader (sectors 1-62, LILO/GRUB style) off the 1st IDE device then continue off the other drive.
To do it any other way wouldn't work with any machine out there except perhaps EFI machines.
Here's the problem, if you're using more then 5HP from the Leaf motor, then your generator won't be able to keep up with the depletion. And you will be using more than 5HP from the Leaf motor.
The car runs down 24kWh in 2 hours (at 50mph), that's 12kW. 1HP is about 600W, so that's 20HP usage by this vehicle as you go. So if you put in 5HP from the generator, you'll only reduce the net draw from the battery from 20HP to 15HP, so you'll only increase the range to 133 miles.
I find it amazing you brag about how your generator doesn't meet emissions standards. Emissions standards are there for a reason.
Free "for non-commercial use" is not libre. Also, you cannot recompile run it on devices without paying $99 to Apple. This isn't because the tools cost money, it's because Apple must sign the code to run it and thus Apple controls who runs it (and charges for it). This is exactly the TiVo case.
And I'm not spreading FUD. For starters, I'm not spreading anything. I'm just commenting.
I'm not alone in my beliefs, either.
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/131752
I think that section is more to cover "transport fees". That is, the fee to actually download it, not to buy it.
Besides, they're not downloading it from his site, they're downloading it from Apple's site. So Apple's 30% cut is covered by this section, not the developer's 70%.
I personally am quite certain this situation is equivalent to the one that brought about the GPLv3. In this case, the source is given out but it's useless to most people in terms of recreating the actual binaries (because you cannot make the binaries runnable, only Apple can, by signing them).
So it would be (I would thing) unethical in RMS' mind and therefore presumably against the spirit of the GPL. It's quite likely even giving away the program on the app store would also be unethical, because you still cannot modify it, recompile it and run it unless you pay Apple $100.
Of course, this code isn't GPLv3, it's GPLv2, so these guys likely aren't in any legal trouble, they're within the letter of the rules, just outside the spirit of them.
You do realize the UK government used anti-terrorist laws against Iceland right? And I would mention those people never set foot in the UK either.
What goes around comes around.
This is isolated in Kansas.
I'm not kidding, there's nothing magic about water. If you keep a cordon area around it on land it's no different from water, it might even be better since you don't have to worry about currents carrying stuff around.
110 miles from NYC is safe but Kansas is far too dangerous?
This doesn't make any sense.
The issues with 25frames/50fields per second aren't new with the development of HD. Why is someone trying to relate the two?
50 fields is a lot, you can certainly play fast-paced game with those framerates quite well.
And Killzone 2's controls are not "already somewhat laggy". It responds just fine on my HDTV. Who comes up with this stuff? Maybe the author has various laggy upscaling systems turned on on his TV (tweener circuits are near ubiquitous on recent PAL TVs since 50Hz is noticeably flickery to a lot of people).
But the BlackBerry doesn't store the encryption key in-the-clear like the iPhone 3G S does, and you can't run arbitrary code on a BlackBerry just by plugging it in to a PC.
Again, my point was that YOU can't. That doesn't mean it's not possible to do so, you have no proof this cannot be done. Sure, the BlackBerry is supposed to be secured. The iPhone was also supposed to be.
Either way, if you only have to enter a 4-digit number to get in, then even if the device slows down accepting PINs after a while
No; the BlackBerry (or even the iPhone!) would be configured to wipe the device after a few invalid password attempts. My (corporate managed) BlackBerry wipes the device after 10 invalid password attempts, and my password is longer than 4 characters (and includes non-digits.)
Do me a favor, how about you don't prune off the important part of my message.
Here is my paragraph:
Either way, if you only have to enter a 4-digit number to get in, then even if the device slows down accepting PINs after a while, if you could pry it open and get the data off, all you need to do is try 10,000 combinations and you'll find one that decrypts the internal key needed to view the data on it.
That's why I said you would pry the device open and get the data off. What I am saying is that any device that can be unlocked with a 4-digit code has enough information on it to completely decrypt itself based upon only providing a 14-bit (10,000 combinations) piece of information. I explicitly did NOT say you could sit there and try to guess the code by entering it repeatedly. But you pruned that off, so you could say my statement is incorrect.
It's the same as if I had a 4,000 bit key but I store it inside my house. All you need to do is open my front door (my front door has a lock with only 100,000 combinations) to get inside and get the key.
It may be difficult to get the right data needed to run the 10,000 combinations through the system (sorry for rapid-fire switching back to the other example) offline, but it is there. If you can exploit your way into the Blackberry like you can the iPhone, then you're a long way down the road.
And don't say it's impossible.
http://www.ditii.com/2008/07/17/blackberry-pdf-exploit-exposes-corporate-networks/
The iPhone also has a setting to wipe after a number of attempts. That was not my point. I didn't say you were going to try to enter 10,000 codes. I said the information necessary to decode the data was in the unit.
An iPhone is also backed up every time you sync it, you can restore a new phone to be exactly like yours in no time. Apple mentioned this when they announce the remote wipe function of "find my iPhone".
Did you ask yourself that? If that Blackberry is just sitting there, even asking for a passcode, is it still receiving and storing data? It is, it can receive SMSes for example. It knows how to decrypt everything on itself with the information it has. The only difference between it and an iPhone in this case is the hacker doesn't know how to get the data off, not that it is impossible to do so.
Maybe a Blackberry has a hardened mode, where it goes inert when you lock it, where it won't receive data because it has forgotten the key to its own storage.
Either way, if you only have to enter a 4-digit number to get in, then even if the device slows down accepting PINs after a while, if you could pry it open and get the data off, all you need to do is try 10,000 combinations and you'll find one that decrypts the internal key needed to view the data on it.
This trailer is far better than the real trailer. I watch it 2-3 times a day. I'm much more interested in this movie now than I would have from the normal trailers.
Yay spaceships!
That's not what the article says.
I suggest you read it again. The article says they collect the books that are sold at the end of semesters.
'While Chegg primarily rents books, it is also essentially acting as a kind of "market maker," gathering books from sellers at the end of a semester and renting -- or sometimes selling -- them to other students at the start of a new one.'
And from their site:
'All rental books are like new or good. '
Note it doesn't say the rental books ARE new, they are "like" new.
College textbooks have limited re-use because the publishers make new editions strictly of the purpose of obsoleting them so people don't buy used books and are forced (or at least encouraged) to buy new ones instead.
Renting something that only can be used 2-3 times means you end up paying a LOT to rent it. If the company who rents it is to make a profit, they have to charge a significant fraction of the price of the item to rent it.
For example, in the article, $69 (including shipping) to rent a book that retails for $123. You can probably find it used for $85 and sell it again when you are done (for peanuts).
A/C does not require 3-phase, how ridiculous. There are plenty of gas stations in my area (California!) that have a smaller building than my house, they don't need 3-phase to cool that.
The total wire area should be over 1 1/4" for 600A, but either way, the hoses we use for gas are much much lighter than a the cables are.
Using gas or Diesel tanks for a heat sink is ridiculous. It's supposed to be safe, but if anything goes wrong, your liability would be enormous.
Either way, that's not going to fix the heat problem in the battery pack itself. The pack isn't going to heat up any less when being charged in 10 minutes than it would being discharged in 10 minutes, and on the Tesla roadster it reduces performance after a few minutes of max effort to reduce the heat, and that's only a discharge rate which would empty it in a bit over 20 minutes!
Oh, now I'm going to rent a car? So now I don't need a rest?
People are ready to make all kinds of excuses as to why short range cars are okay. Many of them are even accurate. The problem is that consumers don't seem to agree with the arguments. People are using to paying a little and getting more car than they need. Getting them to warm up to the idea of paying a lot and getting less car than they need is going to take a lot f convincing.
In the mean time, turns out 300 miles is not sufficient range, which is the point I refuted.
I think it's hilarious you would just tell someone they have to spend more than 20% of their trip (25% if you subtract out the 8 hours sleeping) waiting for their car to charge. And they should be thankful for it.
I mean, if I wanted to spend 8 hours walking around an RV park, I can do that on a trip I take with my gas car. So there's no advantage to being forced to do it.
This guy took a trip where he never went over 80% of rated range of his car in a day and he still felt he had to stop to recharge it during the day 3 times in two days! If nothing else, range anxiety is a huge issue.
The article is optimistic in my opinion.
Let's assume they're talking about the same pack as in the Roadster (even though the pack you get for $57.4K is lesser capacity). That means you're putting in 45kWh in 10 minutes. That's a charge rate of more than 270kW. That will require 440V power (3-phase) at 600A! And that's assuming 100% efficiency!
There's going to be a lot of places where you can't get that much power. And even if you can, the amount of waste heat giving off by the charger, and in the pack will be very difficult to manage. Also, the charging cable would be a bit of a hassle to wrestle because it's going to be very thick.
The battery pack you get for $57.4K (the cheapest model) is a 160 mile pack, not a 300 mile pack.
And you aren't going to be able to fully charge it in 45 minutes. LIons just won't stand for it. You should be able to put 85% of the charge in in 45 minutes, but since it such rapid charging reduces the lifespan of the battery, Tesla doesn't recommend you charge it in 45 minutes (at least they don't recommend it for the Roadster, this has a similar pack so I presume this is the same).
Acceptable range is kind of a tricky idea, if you had a charger everywhere, then this might be okay. But instead, you are likely to drive to your range and find there is no place to charge it at your stopover or destination.
Here's an example of how the difficulties in recharging an electric car makes it less useful than a gas car.
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog5/?p=68
This guy took a 40 hour trip and spent 8 hours of it waiting for his car to charge. 4 hours walking (twice) around an RV park waiting for his car to charge to 88%.