Obviously they are getting good at fixing those machines, I guess practice makes one perfect. Often good care of failed product can lead to a great word of mouth advertisement.
To be honest We (Western nations) should just bite the bullet and install those 4G networks with low latency and high transfer rates.
Wireless network is more economical because there wouldn't be any moving costs, no physical installations apart from 4G USB stick, and you can take the internet connection with you everywhere.
Finland has several networks doing high speed internet, 1Mbit at 450MHz covering whole country and big parts of costal regions for 35EUR/month, or high speed wireless with 3.6Mbit for similar price but works only in cities or 512kbit for 10EUR per month nationwide. Even with these lower than ADSL speeds the adoption of this has been huge, over 10% of Finns now have wireless high speed internet connection, some as second connection for travel, others as main connection. With 10EUR per month it's just a deal that makes sense.
Saving dollars in time of economical crisis is not productive. Couple of volcano eruptions, some earthquakes and few hurricanes through metropolitan areas would pump up GDP quite nicely.
You are confusing something here. To produce 1 kW of power you need to produce 1000 Watts. 1kWh is measure of this 1 kW of power production running for one hour. Therefore 1 W will have to run 1000 hours to produce 1 kWh.
It's called "word of honor" and I do trust parties that I'm dealing with to honor their words. Even to a point that if they didn't honor their words I might lose money and wouldn't have a real possibility to recoup my losses through legal system. Calling this kind of behavior as "absurd" is in fact absurd.
Good example would be to give a car to a friend to be used for a day. Rental contracts are in place to handle this situation, but I rarely bother with it and trust that my friend will honor his word to return the car in same condition as it was before. If not we will have another verbal contract to deal with the situation, not a written one that stipulates all possible outcomes of the rental.
There are moments when verbal contracts are not the smart way to do things, but reality is that most of the contracts and commitments people do in life are verbal. Some occasions when significant amount of value or complete strangers are involved it's better to have the contract written down. How EULA relates to this, I don't know.
I did a similar exercise with my modest apartment. I added extension cords with power switches and went from $30 down to $15-20 per month. I really recommend everyone to do this, it's so simple and the savings can be a large percentage of your total consumption.
Sorry to post more, but I searched further and found quite interesting model on Sonera.
They have four data plans, hour, data, day and month plans. Hour plan costs 90cents/starting hour without monthly fee, with 7 EUR gap per day. Data data plan costs 4 EUR/month and gives 20MB of data, each additional 20MB chunk will cost 4 EUR more. Day data plan costs 3 EUR/day without monthly fee and month data plan costs 15 EUR/month. Then the user can add data speeds to these plans, regular being 512kbit. 1mbit costs 5 EUR/month and 3.6mbit costs 20EUR/month in addition to the data plan chosen.
This provides quite affordable internet service for various different needs.
You are right, even if you actually manage to find some variation between the providers it is never significant and the billing model doesn't change at all.
Here are some different plans you can get in Finland: TeleFinland, 250min, 100 sms, extra minutes 9 cents/min, 16 EUR/month TeleFinland, 0min, 0 sms, extra minutes 7 cents/min, 66 cents/month Add unlimited 3G data package, 384kbps, 10 EUR/month, 1mbit, 20 EUR/month, opening fee for both 8 EUR. Includes: Connection, USB modem and SIM-card.
On Sonera there are scales for choosing custom plan for both talk and sms, steps are very small and will offer significantly better variation than US counterparts. 15 EUR/month will provide 512kbps, 20 EUR/month 1mbit and 35 EUR/month gives 3.6mbit data connection. There is also difference in price if you get the phone or not with the plan, if you own your phone already there are not added fees. If you want iPhone with the plan add 24 EUR/month for 24 months or just pay 650 EUR up front.
DNA Finland provides data only USB stick for 20 EUR/month for 1 mbit connection.
Even these are very similar, 1 mbit is everywhere 20 EUR/month, but the flexibility of available packages is significantly higher. And remember that only sent SMS and outgoing phone calls cost, incoming ones are free.
I know quite a few people who have already changed to use these wireless internet connection because they are so much handier. Just take the USB stick or phone with you and the connection works everywhere. The lower speeds are also cheaper than fixed line connections.
We can try the crash test with passenger train. Let it run on concrete block, use the same one as you used on the Hummer or Volvo, imagine results. Now do the same test running passenger train into a Hummer, imagine what will happen. GP or some other parent was just saying that the crash tests are not entirely valid in real life when comparing crashes between different kind of vehicles because of their size difference. Hummer will use up the crumble zones of the other car and more before slowing down, same as the train. That helps the passengers in Hummer and injures the passengers on the other car.
Peer reviewed is significantly better than quotes from some random scientists with random degrees. I would also like to see a computer model of global cooling that would explain why we have now reached the cooling trend. I'm fairly sure that it's not all the time politics and there are several honest scientists doing their work as well as they can.
You could also use 5 year cumulative trend, if that shows significant decline then I would like to question the global warming. Until that happens I'm going with the flow of current most likely explanation. Additionally I believe that reducing the global CO2 emissions shouldn't really harm the environment either.
We have already seen a shift from HDD based portable music players to SDD based ones. The reason for the change is that we have reached the threshold of acceptable amount of storage. For regular iPod user 16GB seems to be enough, although for some power users Apple does offer 120GB version with virtually same price and features. On portable devices SSDs advantages in power consumption far outweight the price per gigabyte disadvantage.
Laptops will be next to transform and then desktops. For me acceptable amount of storage would be 256GB (currently using 160GB out of 500GB), for my parents 64GB (using 30GB out of 120GB) would be plenty. Once this threshold of needed capacity is reached additional gigabytes are wasted capacity. Since SSDs are faster and consume less power the transition will happen as soon as these benefits become more important than added capacity. We don't have to wait until SSDs match the price per gigabyte, only limited applications and users are concerned with that.
I would be surprised if conservatives were advocating the change. Definition of conservative already goes against the change. In any case once the pull forward comes too strong conservatives will cave in and shift to the liberal values, while liberals (or whoever is leading the change) will move again to some direction.
I just don't understand the notion that past is somehow better than the future. You only have to look back 50-100 years of history and you will notice that then liberal (now conservative) ideologies have brought many good things for everyone. Of course conservatives are the essential break that allows society to function and make movement slow enough to make adjustment easier.
There is also more reasonable example to figure out that the compensation RIAA is asking cannot be constitutional.
Imagine 100 file sharers who share 100 songs among themselves using P2P program. All of these songs are pirated and RIAA starts catching them one by one. In each trial RIAA gets $750 per song due to the distribution of the songs. After all 100 file sharers have been tried and fines paid RIAA would have received $750 * 100 users * 100 songs = $7.5M.
Then imagine what is the cost of supplying that group of people original copies of the songs. 100 songs costs about $100 and multiply that with the 100 users and the actual losses are in range of $10000. Payout was exactly 750:1, which can be deemed excessive by any standard. P2P "market" is essentially same kind of closed loop, the scale is just bigger.
Yes, you are right EB2 and EB3 are the paths to green card and citizenship alongside with green card lottery. The process description that I was asking to be modded up was for these EB2 and EB3 visas, which happen to be the only paths to citizenship for skilled (not exceptional with national importance) workers. There is almost no way to start the process directly with EB2 or EB3 visa ever, before going through that route the company must have gotten proof (H1B or L1) of capabilities before sponsoring the green card as the process is expensive.
Compare these procedures to many other civilized countries and you will find out that they are in fact retarded. They are designed to be a cash cow for lawyers and the employees stuck in the system are ready to be abused as they need the sponsorship for the immigration. As an example, I know for a fact that working and tax paying in Finland will allow that person to change employment withing the field of expertise and stay in Finland and receive social benefits available for all citizens. After around two years it is possible to apply for permanent residence that will extend the rights of the person and allow permanent stay in Finland. That doesn't mean citizenship but you don't have any hard limit or deadline on that anymore as long as taxes are paid. Each country can of course decide this for themselves how immigration is handled (or mishandled) and like I said I will most likely be gladly packing if the day comes that I need to leave due to this retarded process. I don't say I have right to a citizenship or anything, but if I were seriously trying to become a citizen I would expect the nation to have at least somewhat reliable steps that require certain criteria to be met to get there. Now it's all about luck, lawyers and uncertainty if one wishes to pursue their dream of becoming US citizen.
You are right, I hope somebody mods you up. I'm going to be in same situation in about 2-3 years. If I were an illegal immigrant I would most likely be in better situation as they are supposed to get their path to citizenship as long as they pay minimal fines. As skilled and respected worker my chances of getting green card are in this retarded process or green card lottery. In case those fail I will be packing, which I most likely do gladly after going through such a process.
There is also no far right wing. Listen to the European far right wingers speak and you will be glad that those far right wing people are nowhere near the capitol hill.
I have figured out of US politics so far that democrats know what to do but not how. They have the ideology of new and better world where everyone has enough of everything. Republicans know how to do it, but for some reason I don't get strong sense of what they are going to do. The lack of vision means that they want to give the power to the people and these people will then reach their individual goals without common goals or greater vision for the society.
Where this kind of bullshit comes from? If you just used common sense you would realize how badly you are wrong. Let's think, here are some hints:
1. All consumed or produced electricity eventually becomes heat. 2. All energy generation (apart solar/wind/whatever) will generate heat more than electricity. 3. Solar panels and nuclear reactors are comparable (not order of magnitute difference) in electricity production efficiency.
Essentially what you are saying is that if the sun suddenly died we would be fine because our nuclear power plants would be generating more heat than sun. I guess you also figured out where the global warming comes from.
I don't know why you pick apart only the parts that are suitable to you? Grandparent poster was off in all of the cases by a lot.
* 6.25*10^19 J, the yearly electricity generation of the world as of 2005 * 5.5*10^24 J, the total energy from the Sun that strikes the face of the Earth each year
If the solar panels catch 10% of the solar radiation, we would be able to generate ~10000 times more electricity than consumed today if planet was covered completely with solar panels. North America is about 5% of earth, so covering only North America would generate ~500 times more electricity than we currently use. In case we cover Arizona, which gets in average more solar radiation than earth in general, we could provide more than enough electricity for whole world. With current technology it would be ~5 times more electricity (just based on land mass) than current electricity usage.
I used heavy approximations and didn't double check anything, so I might be wrong...
I guess it's not possible to argue with a person who thinks world is black and white, is there someone asking to stop CO2 emissions? Current evidence just shows we are pushing the limits on CO2 tolerance of the earth, reducing those emissions to more manageable levels will buy years of time to study the consequences of X, Y, Z factors. Not reducing CO2 emissions according to current theory is just not viable option and will cause serious problems. In case the reduction of CO2 emissions starts to tip the scales to some unexpected direction it is much easier to resume the CO2 pollution than take pollution out from the atmosphere.
Don't get me wrong, reduction of CO2 is not all that needs to be done, but that is a good start. Overall small particle pollution needs to be cut down as well. Conservation of water needs to happen and so forth. Following your example I could create this:
We are consuming WATER, and consuming WATER is causing FAMINE. FAMINE is bad, so stop consuming WATER. If we stop consuming WATER, will FAMINE really be reversed? Is FAMINE even really bad? Stopping consuming WATER will also cause LOWER LIVING STANDARD - shouldn't that be taken into account?
Anything out there can be put into this form, naturally FAMINE is not bad in terms of population control, loss of LIVING STANDARD may be worse personally in case you are not the one impacted with FAMINE. For me these scenarios are just not acceptable, I believe in moderation early on, especially since we can foresee the future so clearly.
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Obviously they are getting good at fixing those machines, I guess practice makes one perfect. Often good care of failed product can lead to a great word of mouth advertisement.
To be honest We (Western nations) should just bite the bullet and install those 4G networks with low latency and high transfer rates.
Wireless network is more economical because there wouldn't be any moving costs, no physical installations apart from 4G USB stick, and you can take the internet connection with you everywhere.
Finland has several networks doing high speed internet, 1Mbit at 450MHz covering whole country and big parts of costal regions for 35EUR/month, or high speed wireless with 3.6Mbit for similar price but works only in cities or 512kbit for 10EUR per month nationwide. Even with these lower than ADSL speeds the adoption of this has been huge, over 10% of Finns now have wireless high speed internet connection, some as second connection for travel, others as main connection. With 10EUR per month it's just a deal that makes sense.
Saving dollars in time of economical crisis is not productive. Couple of volcano eruptions, some earthquakes and few hurricanes through metropolitan areas would pump up GDP quite nicely.
You are confusing something here. To produce 1 kW of power you need to produce 1000 Watts. 1kWh is measure of this 1 kW of power production running for one hour. Therefore 1 W will have to run 1000 hours to produce 1 kWh.
It's called "word of honor" and I do trust parties that I'm dealing with to honor their words. Even to a point that if they didn't honor their words I might lose money and wouldn't have a real possibility to recoup my losses through legal system. Calling this kind of behavior as "absurd" is in fact absurd.
Good example would be to give a car to a friend to be used for a day. Rental contracts are in place to handle this situation, but I rarely bother with it and trust that my friend will honor his word to return the car in same condition as it was before. If not we will have another verbal contract to deal with the situation, not a written one that stipulates all possible outcomes of the rental.
There are moments when verbal contracts are not the smart way to do things, but reality is that most of the contracts and commitments people do in life are verbal. Some occasions when significant amount of value or complete strangers are involved it's better to have the contract written down. How EULA relates to this, I don't know.
Most of the contracts I do with people around me are verbal and not recorded. So far I haven't had any major problems with them.
Yea, but you didn't set the details right, I got it going close to 60 SPF.
I did a similar exercise with my modest apartment. I added extension cords with power switches and went from $30 down to $15-20 per month. I really recommend everyone to do this, it's so simple and the savings can be a large percentage of your total consumption.
Sorry to post more, but I searched further and found quite interesting model on Sonera.
They have four data plans, hour, data, day and month plans. Hour plan costs 90cents/starting hour without monthly fee, with 7 EUR gap per day. Data data plan costs 4 EUR/month and gives 20MB of data, each additional 20MB chunk will cost 4 EUR more. Day data plan costs 3 EUR/day without monthly fee and month data plan costs 15 EUR/month. Then the user can add data speeds to these plans, regular being 512kbit. 1mbit costs 5 EUR/month and 3.6mbit costs 20EUR/month in addition to the data plan chosen.
This provides quite affordable internet service for various different needs.
You are right, even if you actually manage to find some variation between the providers it is never significant and the billing model doesn't change at all.
Here are some different plans you can get in Finland:
TeleFinland, 250min, 100 sms, extra minutes 9 cents/min, 16 EUR/month
TeleFinland, 0min, 0 sms, extra minutes 7 cents/min, 66 cents/month
Add unlimited 3G data package, 384kbps, 10 EUR/month, 1mbit, 20 EUR/month, opening fee for both 8 EUR. Includes: Connection, USB modem and SIM-card.
On Sonera there are scales for choosing custom plan for both talk and sms, steps are very small and will offer significantly better variation than US counterparts. 15 EUR/month will provide 512kbps, 20 EUR/month 1mbit and 35 EUR/month gives 3.6mbit data connection. There is also difference in price if you get the phone or not with the plan, if you own your phone already there are not added fees. If you want iPhone with the plan add 24 EUR/month for 24 months or just pay 650 EUR up front.
DNA Finland provides data only USB stick for 20 EUR/month for 1 mbit connection.
Even these are very similar, 1 mbit is everywhere 20 EUR/month, but the flexibility of available packages is significantly higher. And remember that only sent SMS and outgoing phone calls cost, incoming ones are free.
I know quite a few people who have already changed to use these wireless internet connection because they are so much handier. Just take the USB stick or phone with you and the connection works everywhere. The lower speeds are also cheaper than fixed line connections.
We can try the crash test with passenger train. Let it run on concrete block, use the same one as you used on the Hummer or Volvo, imagine results. Now do the same test running passenger train into a Hummer, imagine what will happen. GP or some other parent was just saying that the crash tests are not entirely valid in real life when comparing crashes between different kind of vehicles because of their size difference. Hummer will use up the crumble zones of the other car and more before slowing down, same as the train. That helps the passengers in Hummer and injures the passengers on the other car.
You can also use winter tires without spikes if you want to. The tires just need to be made for winter and snow.
Peer reviewed is significantly better than quotes from some random scientists with random degrees. I would also like to see a computer model of global cooling that would explain why we have now reached the cooling trend. I'm fairly sure that it's not all the time politics and there are several honest scientists doing their work as well as they can.
For myself it would be enough to get satellite data trending downwards on the warming trend that is used in the graph on the wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_temperature_measurements
You could also use 5 year cumulative trend, if that shows significant decline then I would like to question the global warming. Until that happens I'm going with the flow of current most likely explanation. Additionally I believe that reducing the global CO2 emissions shouldn't really harm the environment either.
We have already seen a shift from HDD based portable music players to SDD based ones. The reason for the change is that we have reached the threshold of acceptable amount of storage. For regular iPod user 16GB seems to be enough, although for some power users Apple does offer 120GB version with virtually same price and features. On portable devices SSDs advantages in power consumption far outweight the price per gigabyte disadvantage.
Laptops will be next to transform and then desktops. For me acceptable amount of storage would be 256GB (currently using 160GB out of 500GB), for my parents 64GB (using 30GB out of 120GB) would be plenty. Once this threshold of needed capacity is reached additional gigabytes are wasted capacity. Since SSDs are faster and consume less power the transition will happen as soon as these benefits become more important than added capacity. We don't have to wait until SSDs match the price per gigabyte, only limited applications and users are concerned with that.
I would be surprised if conservatives were advocating the change. Definition of conservative already goes against the change. In any case once the pull forward comes too strong conservatives will cave in and shift to the liberal values, while liberals (or whoever is leading the change) will move again to some direction.
I just don't understand the notion that past is somehow better than the future. You only have to look back 50-100 years of history and you will notice that then liberal (now conservative) ideologies have brought many good things for everyone. Of course conservatives are the essential break that allows society to function and make movement slow enough to make adjustment easier.
There is also more reasonable example to figure out that the compensation RIAA is asking cannot be constitutional.
Imagine 100 file sharers who share 100 songs among themselves using P2P program. All of these songs are pirated and RIAA starts catching them one by one. In each trial RIAA gets $750 per song due to the distribution of the songs. After all 100 file sharers have been tried and fines paid RIAA would have received $750 * 100 users * 100 songs = $7.5M.
Then imagine what is the cost of supplying that group of people original copies of the songs. 100 songs costs about $100 and multiply that with the 100 users and the actual losses are in range of $10000. Payout was exactly 750:1, which can be deemed excessive by any standard. P2P "market" is essentially same kind of closed loop, the scale is just bigger.
Yes, you are right EB2 and EB3 are the paths to green card and citizenship alongside with green card lottery. The process description that I was asking to be modded up was for these EB2 and EB3 visas, which happen to be the only paths to citizenship for skilled (not exceptional with national importance) workers. There is almost no way to start the process directly with EB2 or EB3 visa ever, before going through that route the company must have gotten proof (H1B or L1) of capabilities before sponsoring the green card as the process is expensive.
Compare these procedures to many other civilized countries and you will find out that they are in fact retarded. They are designed to be a cash cow for lawyers and the employees stuck in the system are ready to be abused as they need the sponsorship for the immigration. As an example, I know for a fact that working and tax paying in Finland will allow that person to change employment withing the field of expertise and stay in Finland and receive social benefits available for all citizens. After around two years it is possible to apply for permanent residence that will extend the rights of the person and allow permanent stay in Finland. That doesn't mean citizenship but you don't have any hard limit or deadline on that anymore as long as taxes are paid. Each country can of course decide this for themselves how immigration is handled (or mishandled) and like I said I will most likely be gladly packing if the day comes that I need to leave due to this retarded process. I don't say I have right to a citizenship or anything, but if I were seriously trying to become a citizen I would expect the nation to have at least somewhat reliable steps that require certain criteria to be met to get there. Now it's all about luck, lawyers and uncertainty if one wishes to pursue their dream of becoming US citizen.
Including Obama and McCain who both foresaw the housing bubble right around the time Al Gore invented the Internet.
You are right, I hope somebody mods you up. I'm going to be in same situation in about 2-3 years. If I were an illegal immigrant I would most likely be in better situation as they are supposed to get their path to citizenship as long as they pay minimal fines. As skilled and respected worker my chances of getting green card are in this retarded process or green card lottery. In case those fail I will be packing, which I most likely do gladly after going through such a process.
There is also no far right wing. Listen to the European far right wingers speak and you will be glad that those far right wing people are nowhere near the capitol hill.
I have figured out of US politics so far that democrats know what to do but not how. They have the ideology of new and better world where everyone has enough of everything. Republicans know how to do it, but for some reason I don't get strong sense of what they are going to do. The lack of vision means that they want to give the power to the people and these people will then reach their individual goals without common goals or greater vision for the society.
Where this kind of bullshit comes from? If you just used common sense you would realize how badly you are wrong. Let's think, here are some hints:
1. All consumed or produced electricity eventually becomes heat.
2. All energy generation (apart solar/wind/whatever) will generate heat more than electricity.
3. Solar panels and nuclear reactors are comparable (not order of magnitute difference) in electricity production efficiency.
Essentially what you are saying is that if the sun suddenly died we would be fine because our nuclear power plants would be generating more heat than sun. I guess you also figured out where the global warming comes from.
I don't know why you pick apart only the parts that are suitable to you? Grandparent poster was off in all of the cases by a lot.
* 6.25*10^19 J, the yearly electricity generation of the world as of 2005
* 5.5*10^24 J, the total energy from the Sun that strikes the face of the Earth each year
From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(energy)
If the solar panels catch 10% of the solar radiation, we would be able to generate ~10000 times more electricity than consumed today if planet was covered completely with solar panels. North America is about 5% of earth, so covering only North America would generate ~500 times more electricity than we currently use. In case we cover Arizona, which gets in average more solar radiation than earth in general, we could provide more than enough electricity for whole world. With current technology it would be ~5 times more electricity (just based on land mass) than current electricity usage.
I used heavy approximations and didn't double check anything, so I might be wrong...
You obviously forgot:
CD-ROM.
DAT.
Bluray.
Most likely more, but at least these. Not always sole inventor, but part of the team.
I guess it's not possible to argue with a person who thinks world is black and white, is there someone asking to stop CO2 emissions? Current evidence just shows we are pushing the limits on CO2 tolerance of the earth, reducing those emissions to more manageable levels will buy years of time to study the consequences of X, Y, Z factors. Not reducing CO2 emissions according to current theory is just not viable option and will cause serious problems. In case the reduction of CO2 emissions starts to tip the scales to some unexpected direction it is much easier to resume the CO2 pollution than take pollution out from the atmosphere.
Don't get me wrong, reduction of CO2 is not all that needs to be done, but that is a good start. Overall small particle pollution needs to be cut down as well. Conservation of water needs to happen and so forth. Following your example I could create this:
We are consuming WATER, and consuming WATER is causing FAMINE. FAMINE is bad, so stop consuming WATER. If we stop consuming WATER, will FAMINE really be reversed? Is FAMINE even really bad? Stopping consuming WATER will also cause LOWER LIVING STANDARD - shouldn't that be taken into account?
Anything out there can be put into this form, naturally FAMINE is not bad in terms of population control, loss of LIVING STANDARD may be worse personally in case you are not the one impacted with FAMINE. For me these scenarios are just not acceptable, I believe in moderation early on, especially since we can foresee the future so clearly.