The problem is people are dealing with MS Office and they still try to do MS Office stuff in Openoffice or Libreoffice. I have no problem using Libreoffice in my environment because we don't use anything Microsoft to have compatibility problems at my workplace.
And then you get a notice like this and your offsite backup is gone. My hard drive outlast most of these cloud services, not because the hardware is reliable but because the damn company itself is unreliable.
Definitely not in the basement. I use the Raspberry pi in an industrial setting all over. Mainly I've been using it for industrial displays and touch screens. It works wonderful and it's far more slick than any Panel View with crappy icons. Cheaper too of course and very easy to replace. It has made R&D fun again in the manufacturing world and try out new ideas and it has allowed a far range of competitors to the big guys with far more features without all the clumsy backdoors.
Meanwhile, all those manufacturers barely offer any updates to fix anything. That's why I stay away from them. If it doesn't work with Pacrom or Cyanogenmod, I don't want it. I still have all the Nexus phones on the latest updates, except the Nexus One, I've finally put that phone to rest even though it was still running great. The other manufacturers, the phones barely last a year before they unofficially and silently discontinue it by just not doing any updates at all.
Especially if you do anything with engineering applications and industrial programming. For example Siemens being incredibly selective on what Windows OS you have running that it has forced everyone that uses Siemens to just install VMWARE so it works on everyone's laptop. This nonsense still continues to grow at an exponential rate that I'm starting to lose all out control on things. And with the larger and growing list of devices that are completely locked out, it's making this problem even worse.
Have you ever tried convincing these people to do this? Because I haven't had much luck. Most will look at you as some sort of crazy fool that wants to spend more money.
It's amazing how quickly these phones go obsolete and become completely vulnerable to exploits over time. Meanwhile, I have an old PC happily running linux on it for years on end with all the security updates. These phone manufacturers have only themselves to blame for creating this security mess in the first place. Locked bootloaders, locked modem, locked OS. The worst of it? No one is complaining. Until more people start complaining about getting hacked and being a victim of identity theft, nothing will change. And if you use wifi on your phone, your phone essentially is a nice backdoor into your own network behind a firewall.
Add to this locked bootloaders and then the second OS Baseband that's completely riddled with bugs and exploits. None of these phones are really secure, even Iphones. Every time I look at my phone I cringe. It annoys the crap out of me that I have no clue what its doing behind the scenes while on a mobile network.
Sadly, the employers are no longer lying when they say they can't find qualified workers. This situation has been going on for such a long time that we no longer have qualified people anymore unless they're over the age of 50.
This is something worse than capitalism. Our productivity is lower than what it used to be. The high turnover with low pay isn't working out. Quality is suffering, production is suffering. It's more that lowering our standards in education has brought us to this level (High immigration of unskilled low cost labor that people think they're taking advantage without realizing the long term consequences and costs associated with doing so). And also the idiot managers and shareholders.
Quality control issues, customer complaints, more accidents, legal fees, cost overruns (Owners and managers don't know how to count anymore), idiotic government policies, everything is making costs explode because of this and at the same time, trying to adopt more automation in this country is resulting in absolute failure because of the difficulty of finding qualified people to repair or run these machines. I'm sure many people that work in American plants see this. I see a lot of places that used to have safe work environments being turned into 60 hours a week sweat shops that are just falling apart one by one (Overtime is out of control in many places). Meanwhile in Europe, productivity is higher with less working hours (Call it what you want, but they make enough money to take care of their people and also have a free market capitalistic system).
And unfortunately, because of this, you end up having more street lamps to get the same coverage as your typical lamp. They're putting those LED lights on off ramps here, they're replacing single poles with 3 to get the same coverage. Where's the savings here?
Like I said earlier before. If you have management that can't spend a few thousand dollars to separate the network, you got bigger problems to worry about. I'm surprised more malicious stuff doesn't happen at these places. Or it probably does we just don't hear about it. It's so trivial to cause huge destruction and mayhem with these machines.
That's because a lot of these places don't hire anyone competent anymore to fix or repair this stuff. You have plants with a maintenance staff that doesn't know a thing other than knowing how to tighten a bolt but the management expect miracles from them. I don't see any plants that will hire seasoned engineers for such cases anymore. There's no more engineering teams at these plants. Owners want the cheapest nowadays and if they can find the word "Maintenance" and "Minimum wage", they're hired expecting him to be a miracle worker like a 20 year experienced engineer.
Then when shit hits the fan, you get what you get.
So then make a firewall. If anyone tells me that's too expensive, they have no idea what they're talking about. The costs are miniscule even on existing systems to do it. A scissor or boom lift, tell the maintenance guy what to do, and you'll be done in a day for even a half a million sqft building. I have it in my own plant, it was trivial to do.
If you have a management that is fighting you for 2-4 thousand dollars of work at most, you have bigger problems to worry about.
Sure it's possible, but at what costs? Energy is cheap in the US. It's cheaper to consume this energy than it is to build more efficient systems. And yes, there are a lot of people interested here in creating more efficient homes. However, the people that build these homes aren't interested in creating more efficient homes, they're more interested in building a house for 20k with incredibly cheap labor and materials and selling it for half a million.
Umm, how is the kettle more efficient? Heating elements haven't changed for a very long time. You have a smaller heating element, the longer it's going to take to boil. I don't know what miracle material the Japanese have found that somehow boils the same water with a smaller heating element. Thus you're full of shit.
If they bothered to give a proper criteria, they could bid for better roads. It wouldn't matter if it was free market or some communist dictatorship with central planning. Bad planning is bad planning, no matter where or what it is. Blame the people making up the RFQ with their lousy terms, not the free market.
More than likely Siemens is offering them discounted motor prices for production. Which is typical if you purchase exclusively Siemens products. It's the same with ABB and Allen Bradley. You get some huge discounts for products which makes it worth it (Yes, I know the manufacturers are doing this to lure people with some cartel pricing, even though they can sell the products for cheap).
In what way? The passenger comfort level is up to the airline on how to position seats. Both Airbus and Boeing have sophisticated aircraft that are similar in performance. The airline on the other hand pretty much determines how much comfort you get on their planes, not Boeing or Airbus.
I think it's just a population that realizes no matter what your vote is, your country is pretty much screwed. Better to vote no and default, and start over.
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The problem is people are dealing with MS Office and they still try to do MS Office stuff in Openoffice or Libreoffice. I have no problem using Libreoffice in my environment because we don't use anything Microsoft to have compatibility problems at my workplace.
And then you get a notice like this and your offsite backup is gone. My hard drive outlast most of these cloud services, not because the hardware is reliable but because the damn company itself is unreliable.
Definitely not in the basement. I use the Raspberry pi in an industrial setting all over. Mainly I've been using it for industrial displays and touch screens. It works wonderful and it's far more slick than any Panel View with crappy icons. Cheaper too of course and very easy to replace. It has made R&D fun again in the manufacturing world and try out new ideas and it has allowed a far range of competitors to the big guys with far more features without all the clumsy backdoors.
Meanwhile, all those manufacturers barely offer any updates to fix anything. That's why I stay away from them. If it doesn't work with Pacrom or Cyanogenmod, I don't want it. I still have all the Nexus phones on the latest updates, except the Nexus One, I've finally put that phone to rest even though it was still running great. The other manufacturers, the phones barely last a year before they unofficially and silently discontinue it by just not doing any updates at all.
Because the big manufacturers wanted you to buy a new printer again.
Especially if you do anything with engineering applications and industrial programming. For example Siemens being incredibly selective on what Windows OS you have running that it has forced everyone that uses Siemens to just install VMWARE so it works on everyone's laptop. This nonsense still continues to grow at an exponential rate that I'm starting to lose all out control on things. And with the larger and growing list of devices that are completely locked out, it's making this problem even worse.
Sadly, I'm starting to have this outlook. But then I also turn and look at my phone, I shake my head all the time looking at it.
God save us...
Have you ever tried convincing these people to do this? Because I haven't had much luck. Most will look at you as some sort of crazy fool that wants to spend more money.
It's amazing how quickly these phones go obsolete and become completely vulnerable to exploits over time. Meanwhile, I have an old PC happily running linux on it for years on end with all the security updates. These phone manufacturers have only themselves to blame for creating this security mess in the first place. Locked bootloaders, locked modem, locked OS. The worst of it? No one is complaining. Until more people start complaining about getting hacked and being a victim of identity theft, nothing will change. And if you use wifi on your phone, your phone essentially is a nice backdoor into your own network behind a firewall.
Add to this locked bootloaders and then the second OS Baseband that's completely riddled with bugs and exploits. None of these phones are really secure, even Iphones. Every time I look at my phone I cringe. It annoys the crap out of me that I have no clue what its doing behind the scenes while on a mobile network.
Sadly, the employers are no longer lying when they say they can't find qualified workers. This situation has been going on for such a long time that we no longer have qualified people anymore unless they're over the age of 50.
When you dumb down your population enough, this ends up being true.
This is something worse than capitalism. Our productivity is lower than what it used to be. The high turnover with low pay isn't working out. Quality is suffering, production is suffering. It's more that lowering our standards in education has brought us to this level (High immigration of unskilled low cost labor that people think they're taking advantage without realizing the long term consequences and costs associated with doing so). And also the idiot managers and shareholders.
Quality control issues, customer complaints, more accidents, legal fees, cost overruns (Owners and managers don't know how to count anymore), idiotic government policies, everything is making costs explode because of this and at the same time, trying to adopt more automation in this country is resulting in absolute failure because of the difficulty of finding qualified people to repair or run these machines. I'm sure many people that work in American plants see this. I see a lot of places that used to have safe work environments being turned into 60 hours a week sweat shops that are just falling apart one by one (Overtime is out of control in many places). Meanwhile in Europe, productivity is higher with less working hours (Call it what you want, but they make enough money to take care of their people and also have a free market capitalistic system).
And unfortunately, because of this, you end up having more street lamps to get the same coverage as your typical lamp. They're putting those LED lights on off ramps here, they're replacing single poles with 3 to get the same coverage. Where's the savings here?
Like I said earlier before. If you have management that can't spend a few thousand dollars to separate the network, you got bigger problems to worry about. I'm surprised more malicious stuff doesn't happen at these places. Or it probably does we just don't hear about it. It's so trivial to cause huge destruction and mayhem with these machines.
That's because a lot of these places don't hire anyone competent anymore to fix or repair this stuff. You have plants with a maintenance staff that doesn't know a thing other than knowing how to tighten a bolt but the management expect miracles from them. I don't see any plants that will hire seasoned engineers for such cases anymore. There's no more engineering teams at these plants. Owners want the cheapest nowadays and if they can find the word "Maintenance" and "Minimum wage", they're hired expecting him to be a miracle worker like a 20 year experienced engineer.
Then when shit hits the fan, you get what you get.
So then make a firewall. If anyone tells me that's too expensive, they have no idea what they're talking about. The costs are miniscule even on existing systems to do it. A scissor or boom lift, tell the maintenance guy what to do, and you'll be done in a day for even a half a million sqft building. I have it in my own plant, it was trivial to do.
If you have a management that is fighting you for 2-4 thousand dollars of work at most, you have bigger problems to worry about.
Sure it's possible, but at what costs? Energy is cheap in the US. It's cheaper to consume this energy than it is to build more efficient systems. And yes, there are a lot of people interested here in creating more efficient homes. However, the people that build these homes aren't interested in creating more efficient homes, they're more interested in building a house for 20k with incredibly cheap labor and materials and selling it for half a million.
Umm, how is the kettle more efficient? Heating elements haven't changed for a very long time. You have a smaller heating element, the longer it's going to take to boil. I don't know what miracle material the Japanese have found that somehow boils the same water with a smaller heating element. Thus you're full of shit.
If they bothered to give a proper criteria, they could bid for better roads. It wouldn't matter if it was free market or some communist dictatorship with central planning. Bad planning is bad planning, no matter where or what it is. Blame the people making up the RFQ with their lousy terms, not the free market.
Glad the crime fits the punishment. Finally we treat copyright infringement worse than murderers and rapists!
More than likely Siemens is offering them discounted motor prices for production. Which is typical if you purchase exclusively Siemens products. It's the same with ABB and Allen Bradley. You get some huge discounts for products which makes it worth it (Yes, I know the manufacturers are doing this to lure people with some cartel pricing, even though they can sell the products for cheap).
In what way? The passenger comfort level is up to the airline on how to position seats. Both Airbus and Boeing have sophisticated aircraft that are similar in performance. The airline on the other hand pretty much determines how much comfort you get on their planes, not Boeing or Airbus.
I think it's just a population that realizes no matter what your vote is, your country is pretty much screwed. Better to vote no and default, and start over.