But you can't deny that the guy's not going to get skin cancer or sunburn in that suit, can you? May get a little hot wearing a black leathery-looking suit out in the sun, but hey, some people are into that kind of thing...
The costs of mitigating climate change are unobtainable, not insignificant. To put it simply, major carbon emission reduction is not obtainable without a central world government. Any major solutions can and will likely be mitigated by an application of the tragedy of the commons - a country or many countries, realizing it can 'get ahead' by ignoring carbon reductions. The only options to prevent this are centralized world governments with fangs or an authoritarian push by a world power to control the world, both unobtainable.
This is why I'm focused on mitigation by technology. Crush the cost/KWH of carbon by creating technologies that are better, develop structures that can adapt to the change, develop seawall tech to prevent change. If we look at how fast humans have adapted in the past, I am confident that we will be able to adjust in the future.
I think his point is that a lot of the alarmism seriously damages the ability for AGW proponents to reach people. Cities are quite fluid creatures, and as long as the seal level rise doesn't make specific sections of land uninhabitable overnight but rather in a 10-20 year period, we can plan for it and react timely. Of course, this doesn't account for problems like the severe weather you mentioned and a Katrina-level event, but we have completely different systems in place to deal with the more severe changes associated with them ("National Emergeny", aid injections, etc).
There's a lot of people who aren't deniers that anything is happening, but just don't see a reasonable solution available that would prevent the problems we anticipate happening. Our global society is simply too fragmented to apply and enforce a stop or reduction in CO2 PPM. So, we focus on damage prevention rather than problem prevention - what technical solutions can we come up with over the next 30 years that might make this problem, not a problem at all. Or, what problems are something we can adapt to on a normal time scale with our current setups. This latter category is one that I and many others think the "sea level rise" problem falls into, and feel that people terrified of New York City magically being underwater in 100 years drastically underestimates human ingenuity.
They have a budget surplus and rainy day fund? Good, how about they pay off their damn $7b unemployment fund deficit. Businesses employing people in Cali are getting screwed by their unemployment insolvency - if you don't pay back your loans to the fed, the fed increases unemployment taxes on businesses every year. This year, we're going to be at 3x cost.
22 years and you haven't found a non-shitty employer? Ever think that something about your location or that location's culture is perverting the companies you can choose from? Its not the companies, "hundreds" are few and far between. It has something to do with your selection process, or if you're in management, your ability to corrupt a company.
There are plenty of companies willing to provide good pay for regular hours.
Knowing how things are accomplished in a neighboring field that interacts with yours is a HUGE boon, primarily in terms of communication. We have home-grown systems, and some of the bugs that prop up in a user-facing environment are absolutely hideous and show-stopping to anyone who understands how the system is used, but to an IT guy its just a minor bug that can be worked around. We haven't had solid functionality from one of our main cross-check reports for a year because of communication issues between IT and Finance on its importance and what the bugs are causing. If the IT people understood the user's perspective more, or the managers/users were able to convey the technical coordinates of these bugs more clearly and described the negative effects more precisely, I think the system I'm talking about wouldn't be such a nightmare. It also negatively effects union labor relations but that's another wrinkle for another time.
Specialists need generalists to be effective. A specialist organization without some generalist insight may be precise, but their precision may be aimed at the edge of the target rather than the center.
One of the main reasons I decided to buy my home in Charlotte and not one of the surrounding towns was lack of good infrastructure. While it may have higher taxes, I'm not interested in the whole utility mess that tends to come prepackaged with SC residency.
I live in Charlotte, and Google Fiber is on its way here as well as in nearby Raleigh. Lo and behold, I get a notice in the mail last month that TWC is increasing all our plans by 5x capacity, so I went from 20/1 to 100/5 at the same price.
Well, that's great, but...you'll only increase capacity once there's a threat? And its so cheap to do that you'll not increase prices and finish the roll-out less than 6 months from Google's announcement? Really inspires tons of customer loyalty there, Time Warner. Jackasses.
Which brings me to my point: If this rollout by Comcast is true, is someone finally getting out IN FRONT of Google Fiber, not just being a reactionary twit? Maybe, just maybe, someone is learning that customers are switching not only because of your product but because you treat your customers like crap?
I think I'm too idealistic. That would make way too much sense for the telcos to think of it.
Not even just the building location, but the rent. Harbor space is EXPENSIVE! Limited docking space options, maximum need. We're talking billions to have space to dock large vessels, as an example. The cost per acre is probably an order of magnitude higher, or more, than an inland data center.
But, the MoU that the CCS and their CEO, and I expect SEO, EOC, PSS companies, PABs are all locked up into the same thing. It's obvious that the MOoP will go to the aforementioned people and organisations. There needs to be a PAOE regarding this decision which essentially equates to UVL giving Oracle PAPT. In the olden days, PO effectively influenced the issue of PMCs and if a PMC was enacted there would be a public outcry. Perhaps if people were given more fact then PAPT, MOoP and ESAs would be less prevalent. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case.
17 acronyms in 5 sentences. Is that a new record?
Seriously though, as someone in another industry who doesn't know almost all of these acronyms, I couldn't tell if I was reading a joke or not.
Along with what other posters have mentioned, I think rendering may be an issue. Most of these games play around 30FPS at full resolution, split screen didn't crush performance too much because it didn't increase the rendering space/detail level, where using 3d to 'duplicate' the screen would actually double the rendering space. If I'm thinking about this correctly, "Split Screen" 3D would either require halving the framerate for each player or cutting the detail level dramatically to maintain high enough FPS. So, either 15FPS at 720p or 30FPS at 480p.
Mine does something a little different, probably a better implementation in my opinion. They don't do the screenings anymore (they did a long time ago) but now they offer to pay your last 4 yearly insurance premiums if you get a physical before August. The physical is with your normal doctor, and this is information your insurer would have ended up seeing anyway.
This is one of those cases where the logical conclusion could possibly actually be way off base. The obese and chainsmokers may end up with lower medical costs over their lifetime. Why? They die earlier. I was all in with you until I learned this unusual bit of information. Now, this article doesn't delve into average age of death, so it could be that they're dieing way earlier on average and the lower costs aren't offset because of shorter insurance premium pay-in duration at lower life expectancy, but it does debunk charging employees in some cases double for insurance if they are smokers.
A good idea seems to be incorporating IT, in some form, into risk management. Risk Management people who understand IT will fight for you, and the finance department will certainly listen to Risk Management if you can't get through to them yourselves.
I always wondered if there's some sort of cost model out there that uses multiplier factors. Like, yes, IT may be a cost center, but IT effectiveness is essentially a multiplier on every other department. If it sucks, it slows down every department and if its great it adds to every other department. Would be hard to map/quantify for sure, but it'd be a sure-fire way to get number-obsessed management types to actually understand the value of IT.
I also think a lot of companies fail to properly allocate certain IT expenses to various departments and such. If Finance knows 10% of the IT budget is a baseline operating expense for department A through P, allocates the cost as such, and understands the cost baseline/scaling, maybe they'd be less likely to axe it randomly.
Sorry, but you are wrong. Its common to play "2k" or 4k with AA off on 27' monitors for the performance and frame gains. In fact, I would know - I recently upgraded from 1080p to 2k. 2k at lower settings with AA off looks better than 1080p at high settings with 8x AA. No jaggies anywhere on 2k without AA on a 27' monitor.
I think the most visible shock to me showing how different keyboard/mouse play was compared to controllers was in Battlefield 3. My brother bought it for his Xbox and I had it on the PC. I remember the tram tunnel level, the first area being sort of out in the open and it being a domination/capture the flag format. Playing on the PC, there frequently times where the map would end before the first capture point was taken, where on the Xbox it was the exact opposite - most often all flags would be taken. This was because on the PC, if you popped your head up even for half a second it was toast, and the first flag was in a difficult to approach position. On the Xbox, everyone just charged in and no one could actually hit a damn thing. I'd played the game on the PC for 3-4 weeks then went over to my brother's house and saw him playing. The difference was clear as day.
Of course, I already knew this, having played PC games competitively in the past and also playing Halo on the Xbox. A PC gamer can whip around with a flip of the wrist instantaneously and still get on target, a controller user is limited to the sensitivity of their joystick and its much slower turn time than a mouse.
Citation? I work in the international terminals industry, going on ten years, for the 4th largest terminal operator in the world. A couple years ago I was reporting volume to various entities, so I saw what went where on a daily basis at our terminals, one in every major port in the US.
I think you're misunderstanding me. Very few containers are unpacked on-dock, these are called on-dock CFS facilities. This is most common with USAID bulk shipped in containers (grain shipped out of Houston, for example) and a few other fringe uses.
What I was referring to is how the containers get to/from the shipping terminal to the various companies' distribution facilities, which is predominantly by truck, not by rail. Almost all major distribution facilities are located near major coastal ports and are trucked to those locations from the shipping terminal. At these facilities, the intermodal containers are stripped and sent back to the terminals for re-use, typically empty. Its generally not economical to rail containers anywhere within 75 miles of the current location. Rail is used when it can be, but its volume is low compared to cargo that leaves through the truck gates.
Also, rail links between coastal cities aren't as big of corridors as you'd expect. A ship that calls Los Angeles will also stop in Oakland and Tacoma - it is always cheaper to transport by water than by rail or truck. Even cross-country shipments to coastal locations are rare - you don't ship from China to New Jersey by dropping it off in Los Angeles and railing it cross-country, you go through the Panama Canal or the Suez Canal and dock directly. Only time-sensitive cargo (a very small portion of overall cargo) would do this, and usually by long haul truck.
Most go to coastal distribution centers and are repackaged into domestic trucks, primarily because international shipping containers are heavy due to top-lifting while domestic containers can be made much lighter and longer with advertising, and secondarily because products are shipped in bulk not necessarily meant for one location. This is why you rarely see trucks with international shipping company branding at stores other than Home Depot.
Less than 15% of the cargo that arrives at ports ends up on rails.
The longshoreman comment is hysterical. There are tens of thousands of them in the LA/Long Beach area alone. Also, European ports are highly automated, American ports are not automated at all because union strength won't allow it.
Even still, this is a marginal cost on international shipping. The real reason ships are used is economies of scale and cost of production. You can spend $100m on a ship that provides 5x the fuel economy and 5x the capacity of rail that ships anywhere in the world. Ocean-centric shipping isn't going away anytime soon.
Not that I like it either, but playing the devil's advocate, this would most likely be related to system updates and driver updates. If they really intended to turn drivers into a "just works" background windows update process that you don't have to worry about anymore, you would most certainly need to know what components are actually in the computer. Hence, diagnostic data. Also, it would be important to know what updates are currently installed.
What the hell, no home/end/pgup/pgdn? That sounds like quite the horror story. I use them all day every day. What do you do on webpages, sit there and hold the mouse? Slow scroll with the arrow keys? ewwwwww
Working in spreadsheets, pgup/pgdn and home/end are insanely useful. ctrl+pg cycles through tabs. End takes you to the end of the current area, home to the top.
Both my current manager and previous manager do this. You can pry the capslock key from their cold dead hands.
On another note, I do use it quite extensively. I fill out tax forms whatnot all the time, capslock block print is easier to parse when reviewing for spelling errors. It also prevents over/under capitalization, which shouldn't be the main focus when reviewing those kinds of documents.
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But you can't deny that the guy's not going to get skin cancer or sunburn in that suit, can you? May get a little hot wearing a black leathery-looking suit out in the sun, but hey, some people are into that kind of thing...
The costs of mitigating climate change are unobtainable, not insignificant. To put it simply, major carbon emission reduction is not obtainable without a central world government. Any major solutions can and will likely be mitigated by an application of the tragedy of the commons - a country or many countries, realizing it can 'get ahead' by ignoring carbon reductions. The only options to prevent this are centralized world governments with fangs or an authoritarian push by a world power to control the world, both unobtainable.
This is why I'm focused on mitigation by technology. Crush the cost/KWH of carbon by creating technologies that are better, develop structures that can adapt to the change, develop seawall tech to prevent change. If we look at how fast humans have adapted in the past, I am confident that we will be able to adjust in the future.
I think his point is that a lot of the alarmism seriously damages the ability for AGW proponents to reach people. Cities are quite fluid creatures, and as long as the seal level rise doesn't make specific sections of land uninhabitable overnight but rather in a 10-20 year period, we can plan for it and react timely. Of course, this doesn't account for problems like the severe weather you mentioned and a Katrina-level event, but we have completely different systems in place to deal with the more severe changes associated with them ("National Emergeny", aid injections, etc).
There's a lot of people who aren't deniers that anything is happening, but just don't see a reasonable solution available that would prevent the problems we anticipate happening. Our global society is simply too fragmented to apply and enforce a stop or reduction in CO2 PPM. So, we focus on damage prevention rather than problem prevention - what technical solutions can we come up with over the next 30 years that might make this problem, not a problem at all. Or, what problems are something we can adapt to on a normal time scale with our current setups. This latter category is one that I and many others think the "sea level rise" problem falls into, and feel that people terrified of New York City magically being underwater in 100 years drastically underestimates human ingenuity.
They have a budget surplus and rainy day fund? Good, how about they pay off their damn $7b unemployment fund deficit. Businesses employing people in Cali are getting screwed by their unemployment insolvency - if you don't pay back your loans to the fed, the fed increases unemployment taxes on businesses every year. This year, we're going to be at 3x cost.
22 years and you haven't found a non-shitty employer? Ever think that something about your location or that location's culture is perverting the companies you can choose from? Its not the companies, "hundreds" are few and far between. It has something to do with your selection process, or if you're in management, your ability to corrupt a company.
There are plenty of companies willing to provide good pay for regular hours.
Knowing how things are accomplished in a neighboring field that interacts with yours is a HUGE boon, primarily in terms of communication. We have home-grown systems, and some of the bugs that prop up in a user-facing environment are absolutely hideous and show-stopping to anyone who understands how the system is used, but to an IT guy its just a minor bug that can be worked around. We haven't had solid functionality from one of our main cross-check reports for a year because of communication issues between IT and Finance on its importance and what the bugs are causing. If the IT people understood the user's perspective more, or the managers/users were able to convey the technical coordinates of these bugs more clearly and described the negative effects more precisely, I think the system I'm talking about wouldn't be such a nightmare. It also negatively effects union labor relations but that's another wrinkle for another time.
Specialists need generalists to be effective. A specialist organization without some generalist insight may be precise, but their precision may be aimed at the edge of the target rather than the center.
One of the main reasons I decided to buy my home in Charlotte and not one of the surrounding towns was lack of good infrastructure. While it may have higher taxes, I'm not interested in the whole utility mess that tends to come prepackaged with SC residency.
I live in Charlotte, and Google Fiber is on its way here as well as in nearby Raleigh. Lo and behold, I get a notice in the mail last month that TWC is increasing all our plans by 5x capacity, so I went from 20/1 to 100/5 at the same price.
Well, that's great, but...you'll only increase capacity once there's a threat? And its so cheap to do that you'll not increase prices and finish the roll-out less than 6 months from Google's announcement? Really inspires tons of customer loyalty there, Time Warner. Jackasses.
Which brings me to my point: If this rollout by Comcast is true, is someone finally getting out IN FRONT of Google Fiber, not just being a reactionary twit? Maybe, just maybe, someone is learning that customers are switching not only because of your product but because you treat your customers like crap?
I think I'm too idealistic. That would make way too much sense for the telcos to think of it.
Not even just the building location, but the rent. Harbor space is EXPENSIVE! Limited docking space options, maximum need. We're talking billions to have space to dock large vessels, as an example. The cost per acre is probably an order of magnitude higher, or more, than an inland data center.
Drink half a liter of water. Pound gained, no calories gained.
I know what you mean, just being pedantic. Point being, mass of food does not equate to calories.
But, the MoU that the CCS and their CEO, and I expect SEO, EOC, PSS companies, PABs are all locked up into the same thing. It's obvious that the MOoP will go to the aforementioned people and organisations. There needs to be a PAOE regarding this decision which essentially equates to UVL giving Oracle PAPT. In the olden days, PO effectively influenced the issue of PMCs and if a PMC was enacted there would be a public outcry. Perhaps if people were given more fact then PAPT, MOoP and ESAs would be less prevalent. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case.
17 acronyms in 5 sentences. Is that a new record?
Seriously though, as someone in another industry who doesn't know almost all of these acronyms, I couldn't tell if I was reading a joke or not.
Don't they also allow voice calls through wifi for free when roaming? I saw this as a huge benefit for anyone who travels.
Along with what other posters have mentioned, I think rendering may be an issue. Most of these games play around 30FPS at full resolution, split screen didn't crush performance too much because it didn't increase the rendering space/detail level, where using 3d to 'duplicate' the screen would actually double the rendering space. If I'm thinking about this correctly, "Split Screen" 3D would either require halving the framerate for each player or cutting the detail level dramatically to maintain high enough FPS. So, either 15FPS at 720p or 30FPS at 480p.
Mine does something a little different, probably a better implementation in my opinion. They don't do the screenings anymore (they did a long time ago) but now they offer to pay your last 4 yearly insurance premiums if you get a physical before August. The physical is with your normal doctor, and this is information your insurer would have ended up seeing anyway.
This is one of those cases where the logical conclusion could possibly actually be way off base. The obese and chainsmokers may end up with lower medical costs over their lifetime. Why? They die earlier. I was all in with you until I learned this unusual bit of information. Now, this article doesn't delve into average age of death, so it could be that they're dieing way earlier on average and the lower costs aren't offset because of shorter insurance premium pay-in duration at lower life expectancy, but it does debunk charging employees in some cases double for insurance if they are smokers.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ti...
Disclaimer: I don't smoke and find it absolutely disgusting. Still doesn't mean I have to like the insurance 'smoker fee'
A good idea seems to be incorporating IT, in some form, into risk management. Risk Management people who understand IT will fight for you, and the finance department will certainly listen to Risk Management if you can't get through to them yourselves.
I always wondered if there's some sort of cost model out there that uses multiplier factors. Like, yes, IT may be a cost center, but IT effectiveness is essentially a multiplier on every other department. If it sucks, it slows down every department and if its great it adds to every other department. Would be hard to map/quantify for sure, but it'd be a sure-fire way to get number-obsessed management types to actually understand the value of IT.
I also think a lot of companies fail to properly allocate certain IT expenses to various departments and such. If Finance knows 10% of the IT budget is a baseline operating expense for department A through P, allocates the cost as such, and understands the cost baseline/scaling, maybe they'd be less likely to axe it randomly.
Sorry, but you are wrong. Its common to play "2k" or 4k with AA off on 27' monitors for the performance and frame gains. In fact, I would know - I recently upgraded from 1080p to 2k. 2k at lower settings with AA off looks better than 1080p at high settings with 8x AA. No jaggies anywhere on 2k without AA on a 27' monitor.
I think the most visible shock to me showing how different keyboard/mouse play was compared to controllers was in Battlefield 3. My brother bought it for his Xbox and I had it on the PC. I remember the tram tunnel level, the first area being sort of out in the open and it being a domination/capture the flag format. Playing on the PC, there frequently times where the map would end before the first capture point was taken, where on the Xbox it was the exact opposite - most often all flags would be taken. This was because on the PC, if you popped your head up even for half a second it was toast, and the first flag was in a difficult to approach position. On the Xbox, everyone just charged in and no one could actually hit a damn thing. I'd played the game on the PC for 3-4 weeks then went over to my brother's house and saw him playing. The difference was clear as day.
Of course, I already knew this, having played PC games competitively in the past and also playing Halo on the Xbox. A PC gamer can whip around with a flip of the wrist instantaneously and still get on target, a controller user is limited to the sensitivity of their joystick and its much slower turn time than a mouse.
Citation? I work in the international terminals industry, going on ten years, for the 4th largest terminal operator in the world. A couple years ago I was reporting volume to various entities, so I saw what went where on a daily basis at our terminals, one in every major port in the US.
I think you're misunderstanding me. Very few containers are unpacked on-dock, these are called on-dock CFS facilities. This is most common with USAID bulk shipped in containers (grain shipped out of Houston, for example) and a few other fringe uses.
What I was referring to is how the containers get to/from the shipping terminal to the various companies' distribution facilities, which is predominantly by truck, not by rail. Almost all major distribution facilities are located near major coastal ports and are trucked to those locations from the shipping terminal. At these facilities, the intermodal containers are stripped and sent back to the terminals for re-use, typically empty. Its generally not economical to rail containers anywhere within 75 miles of the current location. Rail is used when it can be, but its volume is low compared to cargo that leaves through the truck gates.
Also, rail links between coastal cities aren't as big of corridors as you'd expect. A ship that calls Los Angeles will also stop in Oakland and Tacoma - it is always cheaper to transport by water than by rail or truck. Even cross-country shipments to coastal locations are rare - you don't ship from China to New Jersey by dropping it off in Los Angeles and railing it cross-country, you go through the Panama Canal or the Suez Canal and dock directly. Only time-sensitive cargo (a very small portion of overall cargo) would do this, and usually by long haul truck.
Most go to coastal distribution centers and are repackaged into domestic trucks, primarily because international shipping containers are heavy due to top-lifting while domestic containers can be made much lighter and longer with advertising, and secondarily because products are shipped in bulk not necessarily meant for one location. This is why you rarely see trucks with international shipping company branding at stores other than Home Depot.
Less than 15% of the cargo that arrives at ports ends up on rails.
The longshoreman comment is hysterical. There are tens of thousands of them in the LA/Long Beach area alone. Also, European ports are highly automated, American ports are not automated at all because union strength won't allow it.
Even still, this is a marginal cost on international shipping. The real reason ships are used is economies of scale and cost of production. You can spend $100m on a ship that provides 5x the fuel economy and 5x the capacity of rail that ships anywhere in the world. Ocean-centric shipping isn't going away anytime soon.
Not that I like it either, but playing the devil's advocate, this would most likely be related to system updates and driver updates. If they really intended to turn drivers into a "just works" background windows update process that you don't have to worry about anymore, you would most certainly need to know what components are actually in the computer. Hence, diagnostic data. Also, it would be important to know what updates are currently installed.
What the hell, no home/end/pgup/pgdn? That sounds like quite the horror story. I use them all day every day. What do you do on webpages, sit there and hold the mouse? Slow scroll with the arrow keys? ewwwwww
Working in spreadsheets, pgup/pgdn and home/end are insanely useful. ctrl+pg cycles through tabs. End takes you to the end of the current area, home to the top.
Both my current manager and previous manager do this. You can pry the capslock key from their cold dead hands.
On another note, I do use it quite extensively. I fill out tax forms whatnot all the time, capslock block print is easier to parse when reviewing for spelling errors. It also prevents over/under capitalization, which shouldn't be the main focus when reviewing those kinds of documents.
Ugh, it might help if you use the correct public figure for a joke.
I think this is actually called the R. Kelley rule