A connection fee is a one time, at the time of *connecting the account to the grid* fee.

You aren't re-connecting every month, so there's no way to charge for "connecting" again and again...

I'm betting they already pay a *minimum charge* as well since that's been a common REC and Municipality charge for 20 years.

They've already paid that - it's called a connection fee...

They're also already getting charged more for the power they do use, since their usage is lower, they get onto a higher cost per KWH rate.

It's more than double dipping if they try to charge more, and too damned bad if their connection fee didn't cover future (I'm not using much of your power anymore).

I tried multiple *paper* style filters, ran for 2-3 months, then tried the next - checking mileage over time, none of them gave the improvement that the K&N did - with the K&N only costing about $10.00 more than the paper filters (shopping around).

Iridium plugs, and expensive wires only showed marginal improvements overall (2% to 3% total over stock plugs with 70k miles on them). Trading out to the pulstar plugs not only improved the mileage over time, but also keeps the emissions down.

Going from an average to around 173 to 215 miles per 13 gallon fill-up for in-town, traffic to between 260 and 300 miles per fill-up doing the same drive day in and day out.

Granted, I made the changes when gas was upwards of 3.75 a gallon, but they've more than paid for themselves with the improved mileage.

You can call them snake-oil if you'd like, but the results I've had speak for themselves.

oh - and if you want a quick fix - check your MAF - if it hasn't been cleaned in a while, clean it - the wires in the MAF will build up a coating that requires higher voltage to heat the wire and keep it at the required temp, which tells the engine that more air is flowing through the MAF than there really is, which causes your engine to push more fuel into the mix. cleaning the MAF clears that coating and returns the flow detection to a more accurate read, improving economy again.

Give a look at the pulse plug, from Pulstar - www.pulstar.com

That'll set your fuel-mixture on fire...

I use them, and between the pulse plugs and a simple K&N air filter replacing the stock filter, my car has gained close to a 16% increase in fuel economy...

Also - using a $3.00 can of MAF Sensor cleaner to clean your mass air flow sensor, every oil-change will help your fuel economy as well.

There's no mis-interpretation.

If you would care to read, and get an understanding, please try the following link..

http://whacked.net/2005/06/21/confused-so-was-i/

Solaris 11, will continue to be the development cycle, Solaris 10 is (as put by one of the developers) *THE LAST VERSION of SOLARIS EVER*... They may achieve Solaris 10, Update 535 in time, but as of this moment, Solaris 10 is the highest production version we'll see.

So Nevada 5.11 build xxx are all development releases.

Blizzard could turn off every WoW server that they own, and I wouldn't be bothered one iota.

opensolaris - the regular SXCE builds are Sun's testbed for new updates, patches, fixes and technology updates...

It's noted as 5.11 for the version, codenamed Nevada.

It's very similar to the way the unix kernel builds happened at one time (to be honest I haven't looked lately to know if they still do this or not) - in that the even number release is production and the odd numbered release is development...

Unless Oracle intends to kill off Solaris altogether, I don't see them killing OpenSolaris.

There was something of a renaissance in the early 2000s...

They were called Alternators in the US, and their die-cast brethren were called Binaltech.

http://www.transformerland.com/transformers-alternators.html

They are very detailed, look very nice displayed in a sealed case (2 of each of them, one in robot mode (or animal - Ravage), one in vehicle mode.

I have the complete set of Alternators... couldn't afford the full set of Binaltechs...

in that case..

get the "fuck off" my lawn.

Posted earlier AC...

http://www.blast.com/cgi-bin/blast.com/view_services.cgi?request=show_aisle_names&dept_id=1

As I stated earlier - guaranteed file transfers - if it says it's completed, the file is guaranteed to be there and be correct.

Until the coders get total control of the project, from inception to completion, then no, they cannot be held responsible for bugs in the code.
How many companies push to get code out the door with *imperfections* - claiming they'll fix those in the first update?
Too many these days.
I'd say it's the management that controls the release schedules that should sign their names in blood on the bugs still known about (and unknown as testing probably wasn't allowed to complete).

it can also be described as electron bumping...
an electron comes in, bumps the first atom, which hits the next, (repeat as needed), where the final atom releases it's electron.

think of the perpetual motion (not really) toy - with the series of ball bearings suspended on strings. you pull one back, release, when it hits the group, the one on the opposite end swings out.

only if you consider trading in your car for 8k worth of cabin-air filters, or oil-changes/tire rotations...

they aren't offering 8k worth of ibm hardware for sun hardware...

not the same.

While I agree that getting what was advertised and paid for is not related to net neutrality, it sure as hell isn't trying to get free cake.

It's irresponsibility and profiteering on the ISP's part that is now being called into question.

If an ISP claims unlimited (you cannot redefine a word by throwing fine print at it) at a certain bps, then calculate what you can get downloaded in 365 days, divide by 12, plus a sludge factor for the good days when you get a little more than your *level*, and that should be what you can download without paying any more.

The ISPs have gotten used to *THEIR FREE MEAL*, and now it's being taken away. Awww - I'd feel bad for them if they hadn't asked for it. They should have invested that free meal (users who use less than their paid for bandwidth) to keep their capacity above a low-water mark for utilization so that when the damn breaks, they're ready for it.

Instead, they spent it on bonuses, widgets and gidgets unrelated to their business, and now they find themselves under the gun. Again I say, too damned bad. They put themselves in that position with bad business decisions and are now trying to re-write their end user agreements to enforce even more bad business decisions.

We need to band together, form a class action lawsuit against all ISPs and force them to remove any and all fine print when using the words "unlimited", remove any caps, filters, interference from the lines, and stay that way.

The free lunch/ride for the ISPs is over, now it's time they get to pay for the infrastructure to handle the bandwidth they've been selling and not providing for all these years.

They'll be doing themselves a disservice if, because of XPM, they're not taking make sure that all theirs apps are migrated off of Windows altogether.

There... that's how it should have read.