Their movies are $1.99-$4.99 for a "rental", which means you must watch it within 30 days of downloading and you have 24 hours to finish the movie once it's started. The software is pretty decent and takes care of queueing the downloads and deleting them once you've watched them. There are no monthly fees etc, so it's easy enough just to try it out.
Your cell phone carrier already tracks that information. I don't know if it's saved, but tracking your movements via your cell phone was doable at least 15 years ago, probably much longer. This used to require a warrant, which probably went away with the "patriot" act.
It would be better to feed the equipment 220vac or 208vac instead of 48vdc. iirc, 208v based on a 3 phase feed should be most efficient since it requires one less transformer to step it down. Switched power supplies don't use resistance to regulate voltage, so the lower voltage won't really help at all with heat produced from regulating down to 12v. Every server I've ever seen was capable of handling 208v or 220v. A 48v setup would require more expensive power supplies and will cause higher resistance in the wiring, unless the wire gauge is increased accordingly which is very expensive.
The average desktop uses a power supply which is approximately 65% efficient (based on power factor). I'm not sure if servers are better than this as I've only checked one. If they're not, then it would be a good idea to switch to better power supply designs. Correcting the power factor would allow for a decrease in power usage with the only disadvantage being a slightly higher cost.
Wouldn't an air conditioner running the same number of hours in January use less energy than one running in July? If my knowledge of basic physics is right, you would even be able to generate power by transferring from hot to cold, if your temperature delta was greater than the overhead of your carnot cycle.
I've been living without a car for over a year now. It's really not that bad.
Traffic is not so much of an issue. In a typical big city you can outbike an automobile during rush hour. While busses may be slow, the light rail/subway in this city is far faster than any automobile travelling on surface streets.
The problem is that automobiles have created urban sprawl which only creates a dependency for more automobiles. Density is lost mainly due to highways, parking lots, and roads.
As far as Katrina goes, how fast were you travelling to get out of town? On a bike you can travel a good 100 miles a day during an emergency. You don't need to worry about gas, traffic, downed trees, etc.
Groceries are an issue. Thankfully, my city was mostly solidified before cars existed, so it is dense. Since there are no big block mega stores with equally gigantic parking lots creating sprawl, I actually live close enough to walk to the grocery store. Usually I get about 2 or 3 bags worth at a time and walk home. The walk takes about 5 minutes, which is less time then I ever spent driving to a grocery store in other cities. Attempting to buy large quantities of groceries would be inconvenient, but it's not a need I have often.
The work situation can be a problem, but the majority of people don't need to carry anything to work. While I can't carry a tablesaw to work, I can fit a decent amount of stuff in my messenger bag. If I had to take a train, I'd likely buy a folding bike to get me to and from the station.
Weather can be an issue at times. With an investment in some decent weather gear, I've manged to bike in rain and cold (-5F). It's nice to get outside for a bit in these brutally cold winters.
Then there's the cost savings. I'm saving thousands of dollars per year by not owning a vehicle. If oil prices were to double, I may have to pay another dollar or two per year for chain wax.
While it won't work for everyone, it would work for many more people than you think. Personally, I've found it to be a lot less of a hassle to commute via bike.
. You're assuming that animal life is as important (if not more important) than human life.
Biodiversity is essential to the long term survival of the human species. When the time comes that you no longer need clean outside air to breathe, food from plants animals to feed yourself, and medicines derived from rare species, then you can stop worrying about other forms of life.
I've used PHP for years and by now I have a love/hate relationship with it. Some of my biggest issues with php are:
Lack of binary compatibility even on debug fix releases. My code shouldn't stop working when I upgrade from 4.3.2 to 4.3.3 due to an undocumented addition of a run time warning
Error reporting must be turned down well below useful levels in order to use PEAR in PHP 5. Ignoring E_NOTICE level warnings is usually a very bad idea, but necessary until PEAR works in PHP 5
Code can't be entirely compatible with PHP 4 and 5 standards (var produces warnings in PHP5, public/private does not work in any PHP 4)
Lack of standardization of function naming and argument order. I always have to check whether the function I'm using has an underscore between the words and whether it's needle, haystack or haystack, needle
Kitchen sink approach. Again, all functions are in the same namespace. This results in some pretty weird function naming
Lack of great debug support. xdebug sort of works, but is still very immature
Loose typing. You have to study the documentation very carefully in order to understand how to compare variables and get the expected result. In addition, since type conversion is automatic and performed on numbers when they exceed certain ranges, precision may be lost unless you have a very detailed understanding of how and when type conversions happen and plan out the numerical ranges of your variables accordingly
Caveats with unset()/isset/null/arrays
PHP may have a bunch of issues, but it's still the best tool for my job.
This is also the principle behind car alarms: there are car alarms that can be defeated, some more easily than others, but the main point of a car alarm is to make my car a more difficult/less attractive target than the one next to it.
A car alarm usually just alerts thieves that there might be something worth stealing in your car. Nobody pays any attention to car alarms going off any more, as 99.999% of car alarm noises are false alarms due to poorly adjusted shock sensors.
The car alarm probably makes your situation worse.
In that case, give them a phone call since you probably won't be able to log onto their website without money. I don't know about the rest of the world, but most US credit card companies will accept international collect calls to take care of these situations.
That's not such a bad idea actually. Most McDonald's foods have a very high calorie/weight and calorie/volume ratio. While producing meat is not extremely efficient energy wise, the shipping would be much cheaper. McDonald's also has years of experience in distributing food as cheaply as possible. It would only take a couple of menu items to provide sustenance. The average value meal contains more calories than the average Cuban eats in a day, and Cuba isn't anywhere near as bad off as most parts of Africa.
In America we have USA Today, which has been color for years (since the early 80s?). It's very flashy, but sucks as a newspaper. The articles are very short and fail to give much detail. I'd rather buy one of the national single color papers any time, such as The New York Times.
Since there is only 1 person working in the entire field of psychiatric research, obviously all research on new anti-anxiety meds was stopped while these experiments were being conducted.
Let the parents decide what is too violent and what isn't and be done with the whole thing. If parents cared then we would not be in this whole entire mess.
Parents would still be able to buy these for their children if they wanted.
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Science books that teach "classic" science such as Newton's laws don't need updating.
Would these be the same books which state that the universe is expanding at a decreasing rate?
If you don't keep quiet, we're going to end up with lots of other buzzword techs in our passports.
Their movies are $1.99-$4.99 for a "rental", which means you must watch it within 30 days of downloading and you have 24 hours to finish the movie once it's started. The software is pretty decent and takes care of queueing the downloads and deleting them once you've watched them. There are no monthly fees etc, so it's easy enough just to try it out.
That would require all circuits to be built out of superconductors. It's not going to happen any time soon.
Your cell phone carrier already tracks that information. I don't know if it's saved, but tracking your movements via your cell phone was doable at least 15 years ago, probably much longer. This used to require a warrant, which probably went away with the "patriot" act.
Is that the theory which says god intelligently designed the monkeys so they could evolve into humans and then into Jesus?
Where do the tens of billions of taxpayer dollars given to these energy companies come into play in capitalism?
It would be better to feed the equipment 220vac or 208vac instead of 48vdc. iirc, 208v based on a 3 phase feed should be most efficient since it requires one less transformer to step it down. Switched power supplies don't use resistance to regulate voltage, so the lower voltage won't really help at all with heat produced from regulating down to 12v. Every server I've ever seen was capable of handling 208v or 220v. A 48v setup would require more expensive power supplies and will cause higher resistance in the wiring, unless the wire gauge is increased accordingly which is very expensive.
The average desktop uses a power supply which is approximately 65% efficient (based on power factor). I'm not sure if servers are better than this as I've only checked one. If they're not, then it would be a good idea to switch to better power supply designs. Correcting the power factor would allow for a decrease in power usage with the only disadvantage being a slightly higher cost.
Wouldn't an air conditioner running the same number of hours in January use less energy than one running in July? If my knowledge of basic physics is right, you would even be able to generate power by transferring from hot to cold, if your temperature delta was greater than the overhead of your carnot cycle.
Good luck getting support on that if you use any special compiler flags and run into stability issues.
I've been living without a car for over a year now. It's really not that bad.
Traffic is not so much of an issue. In a typical big city you can outbike an automobile during rush hour. While busses may be slow, the light rail/subway in this city is far faster than any automobile travelling on surface streets.
The problem is that automobiles have created urban sprawl which only creates a dependency for more automobiles. Density is lost mainly due to highways, parking lots, and roads.
As far as Katrina goes, how fast were you travelling to get out of town? On a bike you can travel a good 100 miles a day during an emergency. You don't need to worry about gas, traffic, downed trees, etc.
Groceries are an issue. Thankfully, my city was mostly solidified before cars existed, so it is dense. Since there are no big block mega stores with equally gigantic parking lots creating sprawl, I actually live close enough to walk to the grocery store. Usually I get about 2 or 3 bags worth at a time and walk home. The walk takes about 5 minutes, which is less time then I ever spent driving to a grocery store in other cities. Attempting to buy large quantities of groceries would be inconvenient, but it's not a need I have often.
The work situation can be a problem, but the majority of people don't need to carry anything to work. While I can't carry a tablesaw to work, I can fit a decent amount of stuff in my messenger bag. If I had to take a train, I'd likely buy a folding bike to get me to and from the station.
Weather can be an issue at times. With an investment in some decent weather gear, I've manged to bike in rain and cold (-5F). It's nice to get outside for a bit in these brutally cold winters.
Then there's the cost savings. I'm saving thousands of dollars per year by not owning a vehicle. If oil prices were to double, I may have to pay another dollar or two per year for chain wax.
While it won't work for everyone, it would work for many more people than you think. Personally, I've found it to be a lot less of a hassle to commute via bike.
. You're assuming that animal life is as important (if not more important) than human life.
Biodiversity is essential to the long term survival of the human species. When the time comes that you no longer need clean outside air to breathe, food from plants animals to feed yourself, and medicines derived from rare species, then you can stop worrying about other forms of life.
PHP may have a bunch of issues, but it's still the best tool for my job.
Why not just enable mod_cache in Apache or put your webserver behind a machine running squid?
This is also the principle behind car alarms: there are car alarms that can be defeated, some more easily than others, but the main point of a car alarm is to make my car a more difficult/less attractive target than the one next to it.
A car alarm usually just alerts thieves that there might be something worth stealing in your car. Nobody pays any attention to car alarms going off any more, as 99.999% of car alarm noises are false alarms due to poorly adjusted shock sensors.
The car alarm probably makes your situation worse.
An iodine crayon or a peroxide felt-tip would probably work though.
Covering the entire surface would take hours. Why not just buy a new pillow for $10?
In that case, give them a phone call since you probably won't be able to log onto their website without money. I don't know about the rest of the world, but most US credit card companies will accept international collect calls to take care of these situations.
That's not such a bad idea actually. Most McDonald's foods have a very high calorie/weight and calorie/volume ratio. While producing meat is not extremely efficient energy wise, the shipping would be much cheaper. McDonald's also has years of experience in distributing food as cheaply as possible. It would only take a couple of menu items to provide sustenance. The average value meal contains more calories than the average Cuban eats in a day, and Cuba isn't anywhere near as bad off as most parts of Africa.
In America we have USA Today, which has been color for years (since the early 80s?). It's very flashy, but sucks as a newspaper. The articles are very short and fail to give much detail. I'd rather buy one of the national single color papers any time, such as The New York Times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Rhetorical_ use
Since there is only 1 person working in the entire field of psychiatric research, obviously all research on new anti-anxiety meds was stopped while these experiments were being conducted.
Let the parents decide what is too violent and what isn't and be done with the whole thing. If parents cared then we would not be in this whole entire mess.
Parents would still be able to buy these for their children if they wanted.
Now they just need to engineer real-life manga-shaped-and-*behaving* girls, and we're all set.
Realdoll has a doll that's half way there
Can you use transactions, referential integrity, and fulltext indexing on the same table yet?