There are still unlimited options with Sprint. http://www.millenicom.com/ resells Sprint 3G for $70/month (plus $165 startup costs), so the same tower you used with VM will be the one you get with Millenicom. No caps, no contract, month to month, could change at any moment, yada^3.
They also offer a 20GB package from Verizon for $60 (same $165 setup), as a January promotion.
I was a happy customer until my speed with the sprint service suddenly dropped to almost nothing, and no one could figure out why. After much gnashing of teeth and HW Upgrade$, I gave up and called Comcast to see if there was anything they could do. (They had quoted me $2000 to get on line a few years ago.) They hooked me up to the nearest neighbor's drop for nothing and now I am wired.
In the US, earnings from the sale of stock held less than one year are considered Short Term Capital Gains and are taxed the same as Ordinary Income, just like gambling winnings. There is no reward, and there is plenty of risk.
The energy companies only have to pay if a persons generation exceeds consumption and as such they start pushing energy back into the grid (IE, spin the meter backwards). It seems perfectly reasonable to assess a fee if you are still hooked up to the grid, someone has to pay for the maintenance of the grid and connection to your house and if you are getting paid for pushing energy back in to the grid, you too are using the grid, only as a provider, not a consumer. Even if you aren't actively pushing energy back into the grid, you still have the option of pulling energy from the grid (say, on cloudy days or at night if you don't have sufficient battery capacity). Either way, you're using it and should help pay for the maintenance of it.
The problem is that you can only get paid to the point where your electric bill is zero. At least that is true in California. If you become a net producer, you are no longer a source of revenue for them, you are now a cost center. If enough homes become net producers, there is not enough revenue to cover the infrastructure and pay the producers.
If everyone paid the same fee for the infrastructure, adjusted for total capacity, like the size of your water main, then the per kwH charge everyone pays should be reduced, and the amount solar producers get will also be reduced.
I say let the solar owners become net producers, and let the power company split out the fixed fees from the variable fees.
Define implemented. Granted only 100 sets were sold, and there were only a few hours a week of broadcasting in the NY area, it was approved as the color TV standard in October 1950. A year later CBS stopped broadcasts.
In 1953 the FCC approved the NTSC "compatible color" system developed by NBC/RCA. Ten years later, my mother won a 23" RCA TV in a raffle, and ours was the first house on the block to have a color TV. Most shows were still in B/W then.
No they just had a color TV system (CBS's field sequential color system - i.e. rotating color wheels) that was not compatible with BW as the standard for two years before the current NTSC was created.
The thing no one has mentioned so far are the "fine print" quizzes that sign you up for some stupid ring tone or other service at $19.99 a month if you complete it. I wonder how many kids are running up dad's cellular bill with this kind of crap.
They don't just want your phone number so they can call or text you, they will lock you into a service that you have supposedly approved. I think Facebook should disallow these deceptive marketing devices, where the product has nothing to do with the application. (Ringtones have nothing to do with IQ.)
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Intel started as a memory company, inventing the DRAM, SRAM, PROM, EPROM, and FLASH memories. Note the Bubble Memory is not on the list.
Intel is still in the NOR Flash business, and is partnered with Micron (as IMFT) in the NAND Flash business. The PRAM or Phase Change Memory is in development at the same Santa Clara fab (D2) that develops NOR Flash.
The problem with FLASH (NOR and NAND) is it is not expected to scale much further, as it consists of floating (isolated) gates that hold an increasingly smaller number of electrons that can leak away, making the memory forget. Eventually, there won't be room for the number needed to stay charged. PCM is expected to scale way beyond FLASH and is expected to replace it.
There are nationwide feeds of LA and NY channels for people who travel in RVs, etc. That way viewers can see NBC, CBS, etc. without having to worry about moving out of a certain spot beam footprint. Local broadcasters keep regular viewers from watching these channels, so you don't miss their commercials. You have to provide some proof to DirecTV that you are using the receiver in a mobile setting.
0.001% of 8.08E+38 is still 8.08E+34. That is a VERY LARGE number. Why would MS create a key algorithm that allowed for so many valid keys? Not only would they never need that many, but it would only make it that much easier for brute force cracking.
Intel's Mission Campus at Mission College Blvd and Montague Expressway in Santa Clara is the location of several buildings. The Robert Noyce Building not only houses the Intel Museum, but it is the corporate headquarters for many different groups.
Next door is the D2 development fab, the largest fab in Silicon Valley at about 100,000 sq ft of clean room space. (Small by Intel standards.) It is where NOR Flash memory development takes place, and was also where many Intel first silicon lots were run before being transferred to high volume manufacturing fabs in AZ, NM, MA, Ireland, and Israel.
There is a Wafer Sort area in the SC9 building, and there are also numerous data centers on the site. Nearby is the Intel Mask Operation, where most of the masks/reticles used in manufacturing are created, a capability that most other IC Manufacturers out-source.
Intel process technology development does not take place in India, it is done in Santa Clara (Flash) and Oregon (Logic). Continuous improvement occurs at all manufacturing locations. Intel India has some software support groups, and I think a new design center is there, but most design occurs in the US and Israel.
I am the Automation Manager for the wafer fab, a specialized IT/manufacturing group. We use hundreds of servers and clients to provide a paperless manufacturing environment with material handling, recipe management, process control, data collection, and engineering analysis functions. Most of them run on IA.
I am also a volunteer tour guide at the Intel Museum. Let me know if you want a tour.
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There are still unlimited options with Sprint. http://www.millenicom.com/ resells Sprint 3G for $70/month (plus $165 startup costs), so the same tower you used with VM will be the one you get with Millenicom. No caps, no contract, month to month, could change at any moment, yada^3.
They also offer a 20GB package from Verizon for $60 (same $165 setup), as a January promotion.
Note they don't tell you who the upstream provider is unless you ask. You can read real user comments about them at http://www.dslreports.com/forum/cover,3165
I was a happy customer until my speed with the sprint service suddenly dropped to almost nothing, and no one could figure out why. After much gnashing of teeth and HW Upgrade$, I gave up and called Comcast to see if there was anything they could do. (They had quoted me $2000 to get on line a few years ago.) They hooked me up to the nearest neighbor's drop for nothing and now I am wired.
In the US, earnings from the sale of stock held less than one year are considered Short Term Capital Gains and are taxed the same as Ordinary Income, just like gambling winnings. There is no reward, and there is plenty of risk.
The energy companies only have to pay if a persons generation exceeds consumption and as such they start pushing energy back into the grid (IE, spin the meter backwards). It seems perfectly reasonable to assess a fee if you are still hooked up to the grid, someone has to pay for the maintenance of the grid and connection to your house and if you are getting paid for pushing energy back in to the grid, you too are using the grid, only as a provider, not a consumer. Even if you aren't actively pushing energy back into the grid, you still have the option of pulling energy from the grid (say, on cloudy days or at night if you don't have sufficient battery capacity). Either way, you're using it and should help pay for the maintenance of it.
The problem is that you can only get paid to the point where your electric bill is zero. At least that is true in California. If you become a net producer, you are no longer a source of revenue for them, you are now a cost center. If enough homes become net producers, there is not enough revenue to cover the infrastructure and pay the producers. If everyone paid the same fee for the infrastructure, adjusted for total capacity, like the size of your water main, then the per kwH charge everyone pays should be reduced, and the amount solar producers get will also be reduced. I say let the solar owners become net producers, and let the power company split out the fixed fees from the variable fees.
Define implemented. Granted only 100 sets were sold, and there were only a few hours a week of broadcasting in the NY area, it was approved as the color TV standard in October 1950. A year later CBS stopped broadcasts. In 1953 the FCC approved the NTSC "compatible color" system developed by NBC/RCA. Ten years later, my mother won a 23" RCA TV in a raffle, and ours was the first house on the block to have a color TV. Most shows were still in B/W then.
No they just had a color TV system (CBS's field sequential color system - i.e. rotating color wheels) that was not compatible with BW as the standard for two years before the current NTSC was created.
The thing no one has mentioned so far are the "fine print" quizzes that sign you up for some stupid ring tone or other service at $19.99 a month if you complete it. I wonder how many kids are running up dad's cellular bill with this kind of crap. They don't just want your phone number so they can call or text you, they will lock you into a service that you have supposedly approved. I think Facebook should disallow these deceptive marketing devices, where the product has nothing to do with the application. (Ringtones have nothing to do with IQ.)
The problem with FLASH (NOR and NAND) is it is not expected to scale much further, as it consists of floating (isolated) gates that hold an increasingly smaller number of electrons that can leak away, making the memory forget. Eventually, there won't be room for the number needed to stay charged. PCM is expected to scale way beyond FLASH and is expected to replace it.
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There are nationwide feeds of LA and NY channels for people who travel in RVs, etc. That way viewers can see NBC, CBS, etc. without having to worry about moving out of a certain spot beam footprint. Local broadcasters keep regular viewers from watching these channels, so you don't miss their commercials. You have to provide some proof to DirecTV that you are using the receiver in a mobile setting.
0.001% of 8.08E+38 is still 8.08E+34. That is a VERY LARGE number. Why would MS create a key algorithm that allowed for so many valid keys? Not only would they never need that many, but it would only make it that much easier for brute force cracking.
Obviously it isn't that big.
Intel's Mission Campus at Mission College Blvd and Montague Expressway in
Santa Clara is the location of several buildings. The Robert Noyce Building
not only houses the Intel Museum, but it is the corporate headquarters for
many different groups.
Next door is the D2 development fab, the largest fab in Silicon Valley at
about 100,000 sq ft of clean room space. (Small by Intel standards.) It is
where NOR Flash memory development takes place, and was also where many
Intel first silicon lots were run before being transferred to high volume
manufacturing fabs in AZ, NM, MA, Ireland, and Israel.
There is a Wafer Sort area in the SC9 building, and there are also numerous
data centers on the site. Nearby is the Intel Mask Operation, where most of
the masks/reticles used in manufacturing are created, a capability that most
other IC Manufacturers out-source.
Intel process technology development does not take place in India, it is
done in Santa Clara (Flash) and Oregon (Logic). Continuous improvement
occurs at all manufacturing locations. Intel India has some software support
groups, and I think a new design center is there, but most design occurs in
the US and Israel.
I am the Automation Manager for the wafer fab, a specialized
IT/manufacturing group. We use hundreds of servers and clients to provide a
paperless manufacturing environment with material handling, recipe
management, process control, data collection, and engineering analysis
functions. Most of them run on IA.
I am also a volunteer tour guide at the Intel Museum. Let me know if you want a tour.