Price fixing has been common in the LCD and IC markets, why not the battery market? Price fixing laws are fairly weak in Asia. Companies don't get in trouble unless they dirty their hands in the US or EU.
You can get cheap lithium-ion batteries for laptops. Third party knock off brands usually sent straight China. They don't work as well and in some cases can even cause damage. If laptop batteries were easy to make the third party market wouldn't be full of bad batteries.
There are two points of view. Reasonable accommodation and undue hardship.
What you or me might consider quite expensive may not be anymore than the cost of a couple wheel chair ramps. Who know what an administrative law judge might rule.
The point is head phones cost next to nothing. Seeing the look on a D-Bag's managers face when the company lawyers tell him to STFU is priceless.
If the boss wants to be a dick then throw it back at him with an official ADA request at HR for a reasonable accommodation of a white noise system to block out the office conversations that are triggering your ADD. I've actually worked at places that use white noise systems to create privacy, and the ones that actually work are quite expensive and have to be installed in the entire work area. Add a footnote to the request that if only your dickhead boss would let you use your iPod they wouldn't have to go through the expense.
I had a chat with a fellow from Accenture about advancement in his organization. Not only did he say there was plenty of room for it, but it was required. In certain technical categories if you didn't move up the food chain they would terminate you.
He likely took home equipment that was designated for the dumpster, but I doubt he did the CYA needed to make it all legal. Equipment worth $20 will get assigned an IRS tax value in the thousands and the dude will likely end up with a felony theft on his record.
I distinctly recall writing Server Side Java Script back when Netscape had a web server product. Netscape was really pushing it as the future. It was slow and lacked features in the Netscape implementation.
Contract work usually gets one out of on-call. I'm a resource at an hourly rate. Just the fact that they would have to pay me as soon as the pager beeps is enough for me not to wear a pager the last 9 years. Not to mention it's customer to pay an On-Call fee/rate.
Be that as it may, OT is generally not available for computer workers. Most of us are compensated enough where OT laws no longer apply.
I'm not exactly sure who it's laborious for. The story about the teachers made it clear that the principals are allowed to send any teacher off to the center at a whim. The teachers sit there until they get a letter telling them if they have been fired or not. Sometimes that takes up to 18 months or more. There's no case worker or formal tribunal like you might see in a large police department. But NYC is a two to tango mess between the school and the union.
I agree with the deletes when people aren't looking. But I don't think you need a large number of editors to stack the deck. On smaller subject areas having a group of 4-8 friends is enough to get a AfD.
I think there are areas in the Wikipedia that have floundered for years because a few bad apples drive away new editors.
Of course they can't just delete articles. But they sure as shit can get on IRC and get their other editor friends to stack the vote an article for deletion.
There is an exception. TV's over 58 inches. Really the exception should be for high end 1080p plasma sets. The point is to get the cheap Chinese generic plasma's out.
It's a bit akin to the organic produce. The world can't be fed on organic food. Too many people not enough yield. And the health benefits about organic foods are quite debatable as well. But good organic produce is quite tasty compared to the standard stuff. Should we outlaw high quality organic food because the biggest consumers of it are the affluent?
Panasonic is most interesting. They are heavily hedged on Plasma. Makes one wonder if they've figured out a better plasma or are focusing entirely on 58+ TVs outside the regs.
While LCDs do get better, Plasma is the TV for the true videophile. LCD can't match it for colors, and LCDs still haven't fully solved problems with black level, light bleed and bright spots.
Oh sure, there are high end LCD TVs out there that can turn off certain segments of the LED backlight. But those segments are actually quite large, so you get a light halo around object that appear on a black background. While LCD is getting better, but in order to match plasma you would need a LED backlight that's lined up pixel for pixel. That's going to be quite expensive.
Bottom line is Plasma is still the best for video. Will this kill the cheap plasma market? Most certainly. And that might be a good thing. Those generic Chinese make Plasmas are crap and no one is sorry to see them go. But CA should have allowed an exception for high end plasma TVs from Pioneer and Panasonic.
The MIDI controller and the simple X,Y,Z object seemed to be able to render real time. But when it came to the finished effect where they were doing multiple objects they were using a time-lapse camera and a fairly small vector screen. It took over a second to render each frame. The final effect was projected off film.
If you recall the original Atari Video game was vector based. While the graphics weren't as detailed, you could certainly build machine to do the rendering real time. I believe they use a 19in vector monitor.
Maybe I'm just dense today, but why does the space elevator need to be beam powered? You've got a nono-tube ribbon the elevator is climbing, why can't there be power wires/rails on the sides? It just seems if the ribbon can't take the weight of power transmission lines that cargo is going to be extremely limited amount of cargo this thing can move.
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Price fixing has been common in the LCD and IC markets, why not the battery market? Price fixing laws are fairly weak in Asia. Companies don't get in trouble unless they dirty their hands in the US or EU.
You can get cheap lithium-ion batteries for laptops. Third party knock off brands usually sent straight China. They don't work as well and in some cases can even cause damage. If laptop batteries were easy to make the third party market wouldn't be full of bad batteries.
There are two points of view. Reasonable accommodation and undue hardship.
What you or me might consider quite expensive may not be anymore than the cost of a couple wheel chair ramps. Who know what an administrative law judge might rule.
The point is head phones cost next to nothing. Seeing the look on a D-Bag's managers face when the company lawyers tell him to STFU is priceless.
If the boss wants to be a dick then throw it back at him with an official ADA request at HR for a reasonable accommodation of a white noise system to block out the office conversations that are triggering your ADD. I've actually worked at places that use white noise systems to create privacy, and the ones that actually work are quite expensive and have to be installed in the entire work area. Add a footnote to the request that if only your dickhead boss would let you use your iPod they wouldn't have to go through the expense.
I had a chat with a fellow from Accenture about advancement in his organization. Not only did he say there was plenty of room for it, but it was required. In certain technical categories if you didn't move up the food chain they would terminate you.
They'll move onto the next platform. It's cheap to pay these guys to port.
He was likely in charge of writing the AUP.
He likely took home equipment that was designated for the dumpster, but I doubt he did the CYA needed to make it all legal. Equipment worth $20 will get assigned an IRS tax value in the thousands and the dude will likely end up with a felony theft on his record.
I distinctly recall writing Server Side Java Script back when Netscape had a web server product. Netscape was really pushing it as the future. It was slow and lacked features in the Netscape implementation.
Contract work usually gets one out of on-call. I'm a resource at an hourly rate. Just the fact that they would have to pay me as soon as the pager beeps is enough for me not to wear a pager the last 9 years. Not to mention it's customer to pay an On-Call fee/rate.
Be that as it may, OT is generally not available for computer workers. Most of us are compensated enough where OT laws no longer apply.
I'm not exactly sure who it's laborious for. The story about the teachers made it clear that the principals are allowed to send any teacher off to the center at a whim. The teachers sit there until they get a letter telling them if they have been fired or not. Sometimes that takes up to 18 months or more. There's no case worker or formal tribunal like you might see in a large police department. But NYC is a two to tango mess between the school and the union.
I agree with the deletes when people aren't looking. But I don't think you need a large number of editors to stack the deck. On smaller subject areas having a group of 4-8 friends is enough to get a AfD.
I think there are areas in the Wikipedia that have floundered for years because a few bad apples drive away new editors.
Of course they can't just delete articles. But they sure as shit can get on IRC and get their other editor friends to stack the vote an article for deletion.
I think that reflects the attitude of a tight knit core group of editors who'd rather not have the general public make edits to their pages.
There is an exception. TV's over 58 inches. Really the exception should be for high end 1080p plasma sets. The point is to get the cheap Chinese generic plasma's out.
It's a bit akin to the organic produce. The world can't be fed on organic food. Too many people not enough yield. And the health benefits about organic foods are quite debatable as well. But good organic produce is quite tasty compared to the standard stuff. Should we outlaw high quality organic food because the biggest consumers of it are the affluent?
I think if they tried to do it RSM would have a fit.
Panasonic is most interesting. They are heavily hedged on Plasma. Makes one wonder if they've figured out a better plasma or are focusing entirely on 58+ TVs outside the regs.
Mod parent up!
While LCDs do get better, Plasma is the TV for the true videophile. LCD can't match it for colors, and LCDs still haven't fully solved problems with black level, light bleed and bright spots.
Oh sure, there are high end LCD TVs out there that can turn off certain segments of the LED backlight. But those segments are actually quite large, so you get a light halo around object that appear on a black background. While LCD is getting better, but in order to match plasma you would need a LED backlight that's lined up pixel for pixel. That's going to be quite expensive.
Bottom line is Plasma is still the best for video. Will this kill the cheap plasma market? Most certainly. And that might be a good thing. Those generic Chinese make Plasmas are crap and no one is sorry to see them go. But CA should have allowed an exception for high end plasma TVs from Pioneer and Panasonic.
Given it's a fairly loose mesh, it should be much cheaper than Kevlar per Sq. Ft.
The MIDI controller and the simple X,Y,Z object seemed to be able to render real time. But when it came to the finished effect where they were doing multiple objects they were using a time-lapse camera and a fairly small vector screen. It took over a second to render each frame. The final effect was projected off film.
If you recall the original Atari Video game was vector based. While the graphics weren't as detailed, you could certainly build machine to do the rendering real time. I believe they use a 19in vector monitor.
Ten Thousand? Isn't the internationally recognized boundary for space 100km (about 62 Miles)? A modern airplane has over 60 miles of wire on it.
I'll buy the weight issue. Efficiency I'm not so sure about as beamed power isn't exactly efficient...
Maybe I'm just dense today, but why does the space elevator need to be beam powered? You've got a nono-tube ribbon the elevator is climbing, why can't there be power wires/rails on the sides? It just seems if the ribbon can't take the weight of power transmission lines that cargo is going to be extremely limited amount of cargo this thing can move.
I thought that was Sony. I wish there was a mod point for Obscure 90's movie reference.