And who's going to pay for this upgrade? A lot of buildings are already at the limit with their service gear. Who's going to pay for upgrading the switch gear to accompany all the charging stations? Why should I be forced to pay over $50,000 to upgrade my switch gear (Yes, that's how much a new switch gear costs, the cheapest one) to accompany a few idiots that may never show up on my lot? Then there's also the problem of IF I can even upgrade my gear, because the utility company may already be at the limits as well (And most likely they are, since the utility company is already overloading their transformers at 175%, just put a fan on it!). And the utility company isn't going to upgrade me for free either, so add on another price tag for that, digging a new vault for the transformer, digging trenches, pulling new cable, connecting, etc (Yes, the Utility company no longer does that, they force you to hire a third party to do it).
Thank you, but no thanks. I have no incentive to upgrade any of my buildings for EV support. I get absolutely nothing from upgrading. Also, I have to pay for the electricity bill so you could charge your car. It's liking giving people free gas. Oh, put meters on it! Great idea, add another few thousand dollars to buy a meter, control panel and some sort of payment terminal. Then I also have to hire an engineer to design the control panel (There goes another 50k), then I have to hire UL to list the panel (There goes another 10-50k). Are there any listed payment type charging stations? Because I can't find them, neither am I going to spend time to look for that single one that does (Yes, for those of you not in the US, we have to LIST our panels by an NRTL, CE is unacceptable). So what does the building owner get out of this? Absolutely nothing. We're so concerned about giving incentives to car owners that we've completely forgot about giving incentives to the people with the infrastructure.
So until they give us some serious incentives for installing EV charging stations, you're not going to see them any time soon. Even new buildings aren't installing them, inspectors are simply ignoring the new "Voluntary" requirement. It's not even worth it even if they do cover half the costs for all this.
You realize a lot of technology that's out there to build a lot of this military equipment is available to literally anyone? CNC machines are plentiful and Russians do have the knowledge to build high quality military equipment if they need too. Russia's booming industry right now is software and military weapons, so that's what they're focusing on and doing pretty damn well at it. Just looking at the advancement of Sukhoi, it is pretty impressive seeing that company come out of near bankruptcy to what it is now. So I find this article questionable since there's a lot of opportunity for Russian innovators to be millionaires to cover this gap they have with any technology or even foreigners to go there to sell it to them. Russia has no lack of skilled labor, inventors or educated people.
Also, Russia is no longer a communist country and there is a lot of tech innovators sitting in Moscow looking for talent or just focusing their market there, since any discovery is going to be a hit to make you a millionaire over there. Hell, even Eaton bought out a Russian company because they were so behind the technology curve with their competition like Siemens. All Russia has to do is wait, it will come to them one way or another. No need for spies.
Pretty much. Worst of all, all those miles are pretty much worthless because they only let you fly on some of the worst possible flights with travel time in excess of 30 hours to get to your destination. I have over a million miles clocked up with Delta and I find it completely useless, even on upgrades. They never let me travel on the dates I want to travel and if by sheer luck they do have one on a date I want to travel, it's a flight with over 20 hours of travel. I would rather pay for a ticket that gives me the shortest amount of travel time and pay for an upgrade.
All in all, this deal doesn't even entice me at all unless there was some financial gain here.
This is not just a UK problem. A lot of companies are neglecting engineers in their countries as too "costly", then you end up with problems like this. This one only got big attention because of the small sized company and article written up, but this is going on all the time in a lot of larger companies, causing costs to rise up dramatically.
That's why a lot of development for such projects end up going to China where such litigation can just be completely ignored. If it wasn't for China's blatant ignorance of western law, we wouldn't even have half the things we're using right now. You can easily fly out to China and get a product out for next to nothing. The moment you leave the airport, you have a lot of options to go to for manufacturing, even prototyping.
Even a lot of big companies in the US subcontract to Chinese companies to avoid all the problems we have in the US. Yes, you'd be surprised the people I see there regularly from big name brands. Quiet frankly, I found product development that way a lot easier for me than actually going through the hoops in the US as I'm able to gain enough capital to actually do the real research required for doing things the "right way" later, after I'm, you know, actually making money to do it. Yes, I've actually ignored doing all the costly EM testing for quite a while now. And yes, I've taken advantage of self-certification to the extreme. Do I have a product that's selling? Yes I do. Would I have a product selling if I did it in the US? Most likely not. Does that mean my product is a failure? Probably not considering how much revenue it's bringing me.
And you wouldn't believe the fools that complain to me about my price for such services. I get a lot of businesses like this that will demand I provide services for them for next to nothing, not realizing I have employees to pay, bills to pay, taxes to pay... Sorry, such things costs money.
Yes and no. Would Elite: Dangerous come out if it didn't get that amount of funding? The game is already turning out to be amazing and they didn't have anything other than some video interviews to start with when they made their Kickstarter campaign. There's a risk to investment, take a chance.
A lot of the industry wouldn't exist if people didn't take risks. A lot of ideas can be pretty expensive and out of reach for a single person to make possible, even to demo or make a mockup. This risk aversion in the US (especially) right now is turning the industry backwards and killing us, when we need more investment in the industry. Yeah, there maybe con-artists and/or cancellation because of lack of funds, but that's what risk is about.
Why are you blaming Microsoft for this? This is the manufacturer of the products fault for not outlining their terms to Microsoft on how to resolve this. Microsoft is just selling a product that the manufacturers wanted with the terms they agreed too. If anyone is at fault, blame the manufacturer for these idiotic practices and their lack of foresight of the problem. A lot of these manufacturers will direct you straight to Microsoft and wipe their hands clean from any fault and everyone just blames Microsoft for this, this is the wrong attitude to have and we're letting these manufacturers get away with it.
The so called "Microsoft Tax" is something these guys created themselves and you and me for accepting it. No one is forcing these manufacturers to bundle Windows, but they do it anyways to have a "complete" product.
It would just force me not to register for even more websites. I'm getting sick and tired of having to register everywhere to even use a website. What makes people think I'm going to be encouraged to register to a site I want to use for a day and have it email spam me to change my password all the time? I'm already at the point of just using the same password for every non-important website I go to because I really don't care if someone cracks it and uses it to post obscenities on some website I don't really care about.
Not just software, machines as well. Gone are the days where we needed 50,000 people working in a manufacturing plant. Machines have replaced the vast majority of those jobs or it's been outsourced to Asia for the low skilled labor job such as the textile industry, which is changing soon as well with robotics.
Blame your politicians for creating such a situation where we're forced to try other methods of doing business which are less costly. Poor or rich, doesn't matter, we all make the same decisions regarding costs.
Unfortunately, non-business owners will never understand. They think if we're not sitting in our office, that we're on vacation or sitting at home having a blast watching movies and playing games. Then when I come back from my business trip, I have to listen to these people complain about their long 8 hour work day. I work non-stop everyday trying to keep the business running, finding clients, answering late night phone calls and you've pretty much summed up all my employees. When one of my employees makes a mistake, it's me who has to fix it, mistakes that could be costly to the company. They all think I'm getting massive profits for myself and sailing on a yacht on the high seas with porn stars.
As a business owner, I work longer hours than all my employees. They always complain about their 8 hour work day when I'm sitting in the office every day for more than 14 hours a day working to get clients for all of them to even have a job.
Their biggest mistake is shunning their supporters and laughing at them as if they don't know anything. Gnome 3 could have been more successful, but instead they're forcing it down our throats and calling us all idiots for not using it.
Meanwhile, we still have a lot of applications that depend on Gnome. Whether or not Gnome goes bunk, we're all dealing with the pain of being forced to use Gnome one way or another.
That plant in Gahanna was always about cost cutting. I don't know what they tell you in that IT department over there, considering what a disaster Niagara has with IT, that doesn't surprise me.
Why? A lot of software then was just enough and is still enough to run today for everyone. Why do I need the cloud to share data with? Why do I need all these gimmicks that I don't even use? I still see a lot of businesses running Windows XP or even DOS for their database. A lot of machine manufacturers still run everything on Windows XP because it's an expensive transition to move to Windows 7 or Windows 8, rewriting their manuals, redoing all their code for their machines, and most of them can't because companies like Siemens refuse to let you use most of their software on anything but Windows XP.
So it's not as easy as you think to transition away from Windows XP knowing that it's going to cost a fortune to try to get your old software to work on Windows 7 or Windows 8 and Microsoft offers no real solution for it.
No, but how many of those critical security flaws allows an attacker to remote control my machine? In this day and age, this shouldn't be happening considering with what we know now, yet it does and the same problems still exist today as it did 10-15 years ago.
Please provide me a list of alternatives then. There's nothing that even comes close to what Skype does, not even any opensource ones. In the mean time, I can always find anyone I need to talk to on Skype.
Yes, and the American revolutionaries should have brought their concerns to the King instead of breaking the law and killing all those poor red coats. I'm sure the King would have been understanding by chopping off their heads for bringing it up.
They were spying on everyone, including US citizens. The whole system was designed to spy on everything and everyone. By your definition, any whistleblower in this case would be called a "Traitor" because there's no way around it.
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And who's going to pay for this upgrade? A lot of buildings are already at the limit with their service gear. Who's going to pay for upgrading the switch gear to accompany all the charging stations? Why should I be forced to pay over $50,000 to upgrade my switch gear (Yes, that's how much a new switch gear costs, the cheapest one) to accompany a few idiots that may never show up on my lot? Then there's also the problem of IF I can even upgrade my gear, because the utility company may already be at the limits as well (And most likely they are, since the utility company is already overloading their transformers at 175%, just put a fan on it!). And the utility company isn't going to upgrade me for free either, so add on another price tag for that, digging a new vault for the transformer, digging trenches, pulling new cable, connecting, etc (Yes, the Utility company no longer does that, they force you to hire a third party to do it).
Thank you, but no thanks. I have no incentive to upgrade any of my buildings for EV support. I get absolutely nothing from upgrading. Also, I have to pay for the electricity bill so you could charge your car. It's liking giving people free gas. Oh, put meters on it! Great idea, add another few thousand dollars to buy a meter, control panel and some sort of payment terminal. Then I also have to hire an engineer to design the control panel (There goes another 50k), then I have to hire UL to list the panel (There goes another 10-50k). Are there any listed payment type charging stations? Because I can't find them, neither am I going to spend time to look for that single one that does (Yes, for those of you not in the US, we have to LIST our panels by an NRTL, CE is unacceptable). So what does the building owner get out of this? Absolutely nothing. We're so concerned about giving incentives to car owners that we've completely forgot about giving incentives to the people with the infrastructure.
So until they give us some serious incentives for installing EV charging stations, you're not going to see them any time soon. Even new buildings aren't installing them, inspectors are simply ignoring the new "Voluntary" requirement. It's not even worth it even if they do cover half the costs for all this.
You realize a lot of technology that's out there to build a lot of this military equipment is available to literally anyone? CNC machines are plentiful and Russians do have the knowledge to build high quality military equipment if they need too. Russia's booming industry right now is software and military weapons, so that's what they're focusing on and doing pretty damn well at it. Just looking at the advancement of Sukhoi, it is pretty impressive seeing that company come out of near bankruptcy to what it is now. So I find this article questionable since there's a lot of opportunity for Russian innovators to be millionaires to cover this gap they have with any technology or even foreigners to go there to sell it to them. Russia has no lack of skilled labor, inventors or educated people.
Also, Russia is no longer a communist country and there is a lot of tech innovators sitting in Moscow looking for talent or just focusing their market there, since any discovery is going to be a hit to make you a millionaire over there. Hell, even Eaton bought out a Russian company because they were so behind the technology curve with their competition like Siemens. All Russia has to do is wait, it will come to them one way or another. No need for spies.
Pretty much. Worst of all, all those miles are pretty much worthless because they only let you fly on some of the worst possible flights with travel time in excess of 30 hours to get to your destination. I have over a million miles clocked up with Delta and I find it completely useless, even on upgrades. They never let me travel on the dates I want to travel and if by sheer luck they do have one on a date I want to travel, it's a flight with over 20 hours of travel. I would rather pay for a ticket that gives me the shortest amount of travel time and pay for an upgrade.
All in all, this deal doesn't even entice me at all unless there was some financial gain here.
This is not just a UK problem. A lot of companies are neglecting engineers in their countries as too "costly", then you end up with problems like this. This one only got big attention because of the small sized company and article written up, but this is going on all the time in a lot of larger companies, causing costs to rise up dramatically.
That's why a lot of development for such projects end up going to China where such litigation can just be completely ignored. If it wasn't for China's blatant ignorance of western law, we wouldn't even have half the things we're using right now. You can easily fly out to China and get a product out for next to nothing. The moment you leave the airport, you have a lot of options to go to for manufacturing, even prototyping.
Even a lot of big companies in the US subcontract to Chinese companies to avoid all the problems we have in the US. Yes, you'd be surprised the people I see there regularly from big name brands. Quiet frankly, I found product development that way a lot easier for me than actually going through the hoops in the US as I'm able to gain enough capital to actually do the real research required for doing things the "right way" later, after I'm, you know, actually making money to do it. Yes, I've actually ignored doing all the costly EM testing for quite a while now. And yes, I've taken advantage of self-certification to the extreme. Do I have a product that's selling? Yes I do. Would I have a product selling if I did it in the US? Most likely not. Does that mean my product is a failure? Probably not considering how much revenue it's bringing me.
And you wouldn't believe the fools that complain to me about my price for such services. I get a lot of businesses like this that will demand I provide services for them for next to nothing, not realizing I have employees to pay, bills to pay, taxes to pay... Sorry, such things costs money.
Yes and no. Would Elite: Dangerous come out if it didn't get that amount of funding? The game is already turning out to be amazing and they didn't have anything other than some video interviews to start with when they made their Kickstarter campaign. There's a risk to investment, take a chance.
A lot of the industry wouldn't exist if people didn't take risks. A lot of ideas can be pretty expensive and out of reach for a single person to make possible, even to demo or make a mockup. This risk aversion in the US (especially) right now is turning the industry backwards and killing us, when we need more investment in the industry. Yeah, there maybe con-artists and/or cancellation because of lack of funds, but that's what risk is about.
Why are you blaming Microsoft for this? This is the manufacturer of the products fault for not outlining their terms to Microsoft on how to resolve this. Microsoft is just selling a product that the manufacturers wanted with the terms they agreed too. If anyone is at fault, blame the manufacturer for these idiotic practices and their lack of foresight of the problem. A lot of these manufacturers will direct you straight to Microsoft and wipe their hands clean from any fault and everyone just blames Microsoft for this, this is the wrong attitude to have and we're letting these manufacturers get away with it. The so called "Microsoft Tax" is something these guys created themselves and you and me for accepting it. No one is forcing these manufacturers to bundle Windows, but they do it anyways to have a "complete" product.
It would just force me not to register for even more websites. I'm getting sick and tired of having to register everywhere to even use a website. What makes people think I'm going to be encouraged to register to a site I want to use for a day and have it email spam me to change my password all the time? I'm already at the point of just using the same password for every non-important website I go to because I really don't care if someone cracks it and uses it to post obscenities on some website I don't really care about.
Not just software, machines as well. Gone are the days where we needed 50,000 people working in a manufacturing plant. Machines have replaced the vast majority of those jobs or it's been outsourced to Asia for the low skilled labor job such as the textile industry, which is changing soon as well with robotics.
Blame your politicians for creating such a situation where we're forced to try other methods of doing business which are less costly. Poor or rich, doesn't matter, we all make the same decisions regarding costs.
How do we know he's on vacation? My guys always say I'm on vacation when I'm not in the office.
Unfortunately, non-business owners will never understand. They think if we're not sitting in our office, that we're on vacation or sitting at home having a blast watching movies and playing games. Then when I come back from my business trip, I have to listen to these people complain about their long 8 hour work day. I work non-stop everyday trying to keep the business running, finding clients, answering late night phone calls and you've pretty much summed up all my employees. When one of my employees makes a mistake, it's me who has to fix it, mistakes that could be costly to the company. They all think I'm getting massive profits for myself and sailing on a yacht on the high seas with porn stars.
As a business owner, I work longer hours than all my employees. They always complain about their 8 hour work day when I'm sitting in the office every day for more than 14 hours a day working to get clients for all of them to even have a job.
Their biggest mistake is shunning their supporters and laughing at them as if they don't know anything. Gnome 3 could have been more successful, but instead they're forcing it down our throats and calling us all idiots for not using it.
Meanwhile, we still have a lot of applications that depend on Gnome. Whether or not Gnome goes bunk, we're all dealing with the pain of being forced to use Gnome one way or another.
That plant in Gahanna was always about cost cutting. I don't know what they tell you in that IT department over there, considering what a disaster Niagara has with IT, that doesn't surprise me.
Why? A lot of software then was just enough and is still enough to run today for everyone. Why do I need the cloud to share data with? Why do I need all these gimmicks that I don't even use? I still see a lot of businesses running Windows XP or even DOS for their database. A lot of machine manufacturers still run everything on Windows XP because it's an expensive transition to move to Windows 7 or Windows 8, rewriting their manuals, redoing all their code for their machines, and most of them can't because companies like Siemens refuse to let you use most of their software on anything but Windows XP.
So it's not as easy as you think to transition away from Windows XP knowing that it's going to cost a fortune to try to get your old software to work on Windows 7 or Windows 8 and Microsoft offers no real solution for it.
Don't forget to install McAfee bundled with your flash update! Because that will help you!
No, but how many of those critical security flaws allows an attacker to remote control my machine? In this day and age, this shouldn't be happening considering with what we know now, yet it does and the same problems still exist today as it did 10-15 years ago.
Please provide me a list of alternatives then. There's nothing that even comes close to what Skype does, not even any opensource ones. In the mean time, I can always find anyone I need to talk to on Skype.
Yes, and the American revolutionaries should have brought their concerns to the King instead of breaking the law and killing all those poor red coats. I'm sure the King would have been understanding by chopping off their heads for bringing it up.
He violated the law for reporting on a government that's breaking its own laws? You would make an excellent legal adviser in Iran.
They were spying on everyone, including US citizens. The whole system was designed to spy on everything and everyone. By your definition, any whistleblower in this case would be called a "Traitor" because there's no way around it.
And that website still gets the tax rates wrong. It lists my area with 8% tax when it's 7.75%.