Anyone who knows anything about Toyota knows about TPS.
They use Toyota Production System to improve process and workplace organisation. There are only 100 manual workplaces - you'd probably find that only senior engineers are assigned to these positions and probably have to study the items they're making. "Go Look, Go See."
Not news - it wasn't 20 years ago and it still isn't today.
Almost, AC. The problem with "Go See" is that is as much "Go Talk" as anything. You talk to the machine operators, the assemblers, etc. You can't get quite the same experience asking Scotty in IT how the machine is programmed and if it ever has a problem with x part mating to y part. It can't tell you that 10% of y seem to have a burr and require extra force to insert*.
What they want is to be able to "Go See" and "Go Talk" to someone who can see/talk. TPS (Toyota Production System) values asking those performing the work and including them in improvements. TPS is all about small, simple, incremental improvements.
* = you can record the force/resistance and a whole other host of measurements, but they have to be on every machine, you have to write the code to function and to report. As someone with manufacturing and programming experience, there are many times I think we would be better of with John running the operation so we can get his feed back. He also used to work in the work center just before this one, so he knows about the component materials and how they should be. The benefits go on and on.
I strive to owe the government the maximum amount I can each year without penalty.
They penalize you if you want to owe them more? I don't really see how that is affected by paycheck deductions? Also, you must be the first person I have met with that attitude. [/sarcasm]
Seriously though, lets say you make good money and ended up paying $15,000 in federal taxes. What interest rate could you get on that? Quick check at wellsfargo.com says you can get a whopping.01%. If you have over $25,000 in an account you can get a massive.05%. Linked checking account gets you to.1%!
So if you put that money into a savings account (and helping you out by depositing all on 1/1 of year, but not not doing compound interest) you made:
$15k *.0001 = $1.5
or
$15k *.0005 = $7.5
or
$15k *.001 = $15
So if you didn't give them a dime throughout the year, you saved a whopping $15. I meanwhile, saved $15 not buying Tylenol or needing Prozac.
My wife doesn't pay me to do all that at the house! I had to put in work on my lunch break today!
But I do get your point... it can be a crappy job. Especially when combined with a Noreaster. But why use NYC wages... it seems like they wanted it to look better by using bigger numbers to help their point.
I know 20 million people live there, but the other 280 million in the US look at this:
telecom line installer, $37.60
and think WTF have spent the past 10 years doing??? It took me 10 years, a degree, tons of hours of work, to get my salary up to that level and I am sure I could have been running some RG-58 pretty efficiently for the past 10 years.
Quit looking for the government hand out job. I had a TS-SIOP. Know how many times I used it in the military? Zero. Know how many interviews I went on where they required it? Zero. How much money have I lost in process? Tens of thousands. How much happier am I not to be working with the drudges of society that is the technical people with a security clearance and supporting the military-industrial complex? Immeasurable.
If you want a job at a place that values passing tests and towing the line, the why don't you pass the test and tow the line? If you don't want to do that, do what I did and look for a privately owned company that actually produces a product not used for the military and be happy that you contribute to society!
Interesting... I am still new to the pi and haven't really looked at alternatives. I guess we need to finish one of these and test it. I'll check out the other boards. Intel Atom has a better brand and might look more professional when we present this plan.
The pi + arduino makes quite a powerful combo. The pi bridges the gap between microcontroller and network pretty well. We are about to use this combo to connect to our CNC machines to monitor certain variables and the status of the machine. I could see one day where we are adjusting for temperature changes by moving an offset by a thousandth.
SELECT count(id) FROM voicelog WHERE copid = 123 AND date = Now()
If it isn't greater than 0, flag it.
If they went to the trouble to make it tamper resistant, they probably went through the trouble to write a basic script to test it was reporting the data correctly. I do this on stuff that is way less important than tracking notoriously corrupt cops.
I agree completely. For a society it is best to prop up the family unit. I understand this more as I get older. Still, let's not confuse "what's best" with "what's a god-given natural right".
I'd trust a pot head over a money-grubbing corporate overlord. I have personally worked with the type of psychos that run a lot of companies. They are completely immoral. They often cannot even see their lack of integrity as they have rationalized their decisions long ago. They surround themselves with those that won't rock the boat; "yes men/women". And it's so easy to fall into when you are on top... nobody cares that the emperor has no clothes as long as they get the bonus and raise.
Remember that commercial where they gave some poor dude 100k and asked him to watch it. Pot smokers don't steal it. Asshole libertarian, free market loving, usually conservative pricks steal*.
So you keep the c-levels of ING, Chase, etc. I'll take The Dude any day.
* = I am sorta libertarian, like the free market, and agree with some moderate conservatives. But it seems the psychos all LOVE these things and use them as the basis for their rationalizations.
Yeah, that seems low. I want to know who gave $100,000. Not who gave $100.
It's money screwing it up again. We want transparency to keep big money from taking over (yeah right), but we don't want to make it a 2 second google to find out everyone that supports an unpopular position.
When someone expects to be able to say hateful things because their religion says, and then gets up in arms when someone calls them on it... the word you're looking for is hypocrisy.
How is it hypocrisy? Eich wasn't trying to silence or punish anyone for their political beliefs. Others were trying to silence or punish him for his. I think we should all be allowed to have our own political opinions and give money to causes as we see fit without losing our jobs over it. Apparently, so does the California Labor Code.
You are correct. He was trying to silence or punish people for their *sexual orientation*. Totally different. Our bad. Guess we should let him get on with his day, as long as he stays away from the politically active gays... or wait, do they get it double?
Hold on... let me find my saved post... someone needs to know what a natural right is and that there are other kinds... here it is:
There are natural rights (think inalienable, but really what is?) and there is the vastly longer list of legal rights. Those bestowed by a society that has decided "there should be a law...". I even have a link to a little known website that explains it very well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N....
Also marriage is not so people will procreate! It's actually the opposite, in a way. Marriage is a social construct that aimed to keep families together by giving them certain advantages over those not married. Families, for many years, have been held up as the foundation of society in America. Without them, we would all be heathens, so they say. So marriage was an attempt to keep healthy, well-to-do men from running around impregnating hundreds of women and instead stay with one and help raise the kids and tend the land.
Interestingly, in many places marriages last simply because of societal pressure. So Brendan doesn't want gays to marry because marriage is ingrained in society as a man and a women in a nice house raising kids and pressures people to conform through societal and government pressure. Brendan is forced out of his job because societal pressures mount to the point it will hurt business due to his intolerance. So California steps in and the government pressures (aka forces) Mozilla to reinstate him. That's some roundabout coercion there.
The definition of coercion stipulates that it must be initiated at a higher level than the target. Otherwise it's just pressure, but not coercion. Salesmen can pressure you to buy a diamond, but only your wife can coerce you (unless that salesman has photos of you, but that puts him in the position of power).
How telling is it that a newb says SxSW is a "pop concert". That just goes to show it is not the same as 10 years ago (or probably 5). It's actually hard to say what SxSW is anymore as it has grown so big... it's a tech conference, TONS of definitely not pop concerts, parties and drinking, pot smoking, some parts like TED, others like CES, some like the shady bar on the bad side of town. The latter was what made it awesome and has probably dwindled to nothing making it just another huge conference, but it's based in one of the top cities for music and booze with one of the largest public universities in the country. I bet the cops kick out the homeless guys nowdays. That may sound weird if you've never been to Austin, but it's normal there.
Well that's a problem, then. All you need to get past security is a boarding pass. If it's that insecure, then the lines I spend an hour in are worthless because they don't really stop anyone from getting in to the gates, except my family who wants to send me off. Those lines are also worthless for quite a few other reasons.
Have you seen the congress critters making such a big deal about GM not changing the part number after minor revisions? If they picked up a phone and called the plant manager at any manufacturing company in their district, they would know this is not evidence of a cover up. But did they, or their massive staff do any research? Nah, just lambaste the bastards (oops... bitches) over a failure rate of.000001% (I admit that number was pulled outta you know where).
Now, I am not saying there wasn't a cover up, but jumping to that conclusion based on a same part number that was surely serialized and/or lot traced and/or revision controlled.
I imagine some detroit dinosaur who owns a few dozen politicians could latch on to this and require electrics to make some kind of noise.. which will be pretty funny once the hacker/teenager crowd starts modding them.
Mine will probably play Yakkety Sax until I get a DMCA takedown notice,
Mine is going to sound just like my gas powered car... WOO WOO.
Good insight. Amazon instant is a stepchild compared to others. While the Prime price is right there with Netflix, I still think at this time most consumers equate Prime with shopping, not watching. But maybe Amazon is out to change that. They had a successful promotion of prime in late 2013... if they repeat that success with Fire, they might be a market leader in a hurry.
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Federal Income Tax = 15%. And that included a special one-time deal. Otherwise it would be 12%. Standard deductions and credits. Nothing special.
And I am close to the top 10% of income. I still can't figure out why everyone complains so much about taxes. I find it quite fair.
I didn't include state because that is wildly variable from TX to NY to MT.
Meanwhile if everyone did this....
The government would miss out on less than $2 billion of the over $2 trillion they collect. Drop in the bucket.
A much bigger loss would be all the people that have holes in their pocket and are unable to pay come 4/15.
Anyone who knows anything about Toyota knows about TPS.
They use Toyota Production System to improve process and workplace organisation. There are only 100 manual workplaces - you'd probably find that only senior engineers are assigned to these positions and probably have to study the items they're making. "Go Look, Go See."
Not news - it wasn't 20 years ago and it still isn't today.
Almost, AC. The problem with "Go See" is that is as much "Go Talk" as anything. You talk to the machine operators, the assemblers, etc. You can't get quite the same experience asking Scotty in IT how the machine is programmed and if it ever has a problem with x part mating to y part. It can't tell you that 10% of y seem to have a burr and require extra force to insert*.
What they want is to be able to "Go See" and "Go Talk" to someone who can see/talk. TPS (Toyota Production System) values asking those performing the work and including them in improvements. TPS is all about small, simple, incremental improvements.
* = you can record the force/resistance and a whole other host of measurements, but they have to be on every machine, you have to write the code to function and to report. As someone with manufacturing and programming experience, there are many times I think we would be better of with John running the operation so we can get his feed back. He also used to work in the work center just before this one, so he knows about the component materials and how they should be. The benefits go on and on.
I strive to owe the government the maximum amount I can each year without penalty.
They penalize you if you want to owe them more? I don't really see how that is affected by paycheck deductions? Also, you must be the first person I have met with that attitude. [/sarcasm]
.01%. If you have over $25,000 in an account you can get a massive .05%. Linked checking account gets you to .1%!
.0001 = $1.5 .0005 = $7.5 .001 = $15
Seriously though, lets say you make good money and ended up paying $15,000 in federal taxes. What interest rate could you get on that? Quick check at wellsfargo.com says you can get a whopping
So if you put that money into a savings account (and helping you out by depositing all on 1/1 of year, but not not doing compound interest) you made:
$15k *
or
$15k *
or
$15k *
So if you didn't give them a dime throughout the year, you saved a whopping $15. I meanwhile, saved $15 not buying Tylenol or needing Prozac.
My wife doesn't pay me to do all that at the house! I had to put in work on my lunch break today!
But I do get your point... it can be a crappy job. Especially when combined with a Noreaster. But why use NYC wages... it seems like they wanted it to look better by using bigger numbers to help their point.
telecom line installer, $37.60
and think WTF have spent the past 10 years doing??? It took me 10 years, a degree, tons of hours of work, to get my salary up to that level and I am sure I could have been running some RG-58 pretty efficiently for the past 10 years.
Quit looking for the government hand out job. I had a TS-SIOP. Know how many times I used it in the military? Zero. Know how many interviews I went on where they required it? Zero. How much money have I lost in process? Tens of thousands. How much happier am I not to be working with the drudges of society that is the technical people with a security clearance and supporting the military-industrial complex? Immeasurable.
If you want a job at a place that values passing tests and towing the line, the why don't you pass the test and tow the line? If you don't want to do that, do what I did and look for a privately owned company that actually produces a product not used for the military and be happy that you contribute to society!
Interesting... I am still new to the pi and haven't really looked at alternatives. I guess we need to finish one of these and test it. I'll check out the other boards. Intel Atom has a better brand and might look more professional when we present this plan.
The pi + arduino makes quite a powerful combo. The pi bridges the gap between microcontroller and network pretty well. We are about to use this combo to connect to our CNC machines to monitor certain variables and the status of the machine. I could see one day where we are adjusting for temperature changes by moving an offset by a thousandth.
Really? Run this when the cop clocks out:
SELECT count(id) FROM voicelog WHERE copid = 123 AND date = Now()
If it isn't greater than 0, flag it.
If they went to the trouble to make it tamper resistant, they probably went through the trouble to write a basic script to test it was reporting the data correctly. I do this on stuff that is way less important than tracking notoriously corrupt cops.
I agree completely. For a society it is best to prop up the family unit. I understand this more as I get older. Still, let's not confuse "what's best" with "what's a god-given natural right".
I'd trust a pot head over a money-grubbing corporate overlord. I have personally worked with the type of psychos that run a lot of companies. They are completely immoral. They often cannot even see their lack of integrity as they have rationalized their decisions long ago. They surround themselves with those that won't rock the boat; "yes men/women". And it's so easy to fall into when you are on top... nobody cares that the emperor has no clothes as long as they get the bonus and raise.
Remember that commercial where they gave some poor dude 100k and asked him to watch it. Pot smokers don't steal it. Asshole libertarian, free market loving, usually conservative pricks steal*.
So you keep the c-levels of ING, Chase, etc. I'll take The Dude any day.
* = I am sorta libertarian, like the free market, and agree with some moderate conservatives. But it seems the psychos all LOVE these things and use them as the basis for their rationalizations.
Yeah, that seems low. I want to know who gave $100,000. Not who gave $100.
It's money screwing it up again. We want transparency to keep big money from taking over (yeah right), but we don't want to make it a 2 second google to find out everyone that supports an unpopular position.
When someone expects to be able to say hateful things because their religion says, and then gets up in arms when someone calls them on it ... the word you're looking for is hypocrisy.
How is it hypocrisy? Eich wasn't trying to silence or punish anyone for their political beliefs. Others were trying to silence or punish him for his. I think we should all be allowed to have our own political opinions and give money to causes as we see fit without losing our jobs over it. Apparently, so does the California Labor Code.
You are correct. He was trying to silence or punish people for their *sexual orientation*. Totally different. Our bad. Guess we should let him get on with his day, as long as he stays away from the politically active gays... or wait, do they get it double?
Hold on... let me find my saved post... someone needs to know what a natural right is and that there are other kinds... here it is:
There are natural rights (think inalienable, but really what is?) and there is the vastly longer list of legal rights. Those bestowed by a society that has decided "there should be a law...". I even have a link to a little known website that explains it very well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N....
Also marriage is not so people will procreate! It's actually the opposite, in a way. Marriage is a social construct that aimed to keep families together by giving them certain advantages over those not married. Families, for many years, have been held up as the foundation of society in America. Without them, we would all be heathens, so they say. So marriage was an attempt to keep healthy, well-to-do men from running around impregnating hundreds of women and instead stay with one and help raise the kids and tend the land.
Interestingly, in many places marriages last simply because of societal pressure. So Brendan doesn't want gays to marry because marriage is ingrained in society as a man and a women in a nice house raising kids and pressures people to conform through societal and government pressure. Brendan is forced out of his job because societal pressures mount to the point it will hurt business due to his intolerance. So California steps in and the government pressures (aka forces) Mozilla to reinstate him. That's some roundabout coercion there.
The definition of coercion stipulates that it must be initiated at a higher level than the target. Otherwise it's just pressure, but not coercion. Salesmen can pressure you to buy a diamond, but only your wife can coerce you (unless that salesman has photos of you, but that puts him in the position of power).
How telling is it that a newb says SxSW is a "pop concert". That just goes to show it is not the same as 10 years ago (or probably 5). It's actually hard to say what SxSW is anymore as it has grown so big... it's a tech conference, TONS of definitely not pop concerts, parties and drinking, pot smoking, some parts like TED, others like CES, some like the shady bar on the bad side of town. The latter was what made it awesome and has probably dwindled to nothing making it just another huge conference, but it's based in one of the top cities for music and booze with one of the largest public universities in the country. I bet the cops kick out the homeless guys nowdays. That may sound weird if you've never been to Austin, but it's normal there.
And SxSW is heading down the same path, if not already there. Some have already setup alternate events in Austin. It's inevitable.
Well that's a problem, then. All you need to get past security is a boarding pass. If it's that insecure, then the lines I spend an hour in are worthless because they don't really stop anyone from getting in to the gates, except my family who wants to send me off. Those lines are also worthless for quite a few other reasons.
You missed this debate. It was a little over 10 years ago. Just sayin...
Have you seen the congress critters making such a big deal about GM not changing the part number after minor revisions? If they picked up a phone and called the plant manager at any manufacturing company in their district, they would know this is not evidence of a cover up. But did they, or their massive staff do any research? Nah, just lambaste the bastards (oops... bitches) over a failure rate of .000001% (I admit that number was pulled outta you know where).
Now, I am not saying there wasn't a cover up, but jumping to that conclusion based on a same part number that was surely serialized and/or lot traced and/or revision controlled.
I imagine some detroit dinosaur who owns a few dozen politicians could latch on to this and require electrics to make some kind of noise.. which will be pretty funny once the hacker/teenager crowd starts modding them. Mine will probably play Yakkety Sax until I get a DMCA takedown notice,
Mine is going to sound just like my gas powered car... WOO WOO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I have a Prime membership and even I'm not interested. I can already stream my Prime videos just fine on my Roku3, so why would I need this thing?
Because you don't already have one like the other 90+% of Americans?
Good insight. Amazon instant is a stepchild compared to others. While the Prime price is right there with Netflix, I still think at this time most consumers equate Prime with shopping, not watching. But maybe Amazon is out to change that. They had a successful promotion of prime in late 2013... if they repeat that success with Fire, they might be a market leader in a hurry.
Agreed. Never heard of Ouya until now. Been using Amazon for years.
But I am still not convinced it's going to be a huge gaming platform. Needs to be bundled with controller for that.