It's a stand alone Microsoft product that - shocker - has deep integration many of their flagship products. in addition to having SQL capabilities, it can even write files to native Microsoft file systems! Talk about getting sucked in to the walled garden!
It's a tabbed version of WordPad that allows you to paste in images, spreadsheet snippets, text etc, but has Deep Hooks in to Sharepoint to create things like programmable checklists for manual tasks that email out the results. It's been around since at least 2007. In the right hands it's very powerful but most people ignore it.
Coal gets a bad rap because almost all of our coal energy comes from 1970s era plants that have been getting exemptions from required upgrades for close to 50 years now. The plants that have been built since then (about 5% of all current plants) are awesome technological marvels, but they're in the vast minority.
The patent for the Teletype machine was issued in 1907, any variation thereof, up to and including paper punch cards would probably invalidate the patent.
Cheap steel bikes can weigh north of 40 lbs, yep. Heavy Aluminum bikes can weigh north of 32 lbs. My roommate has a folding aluminum bike, it's 36 lbs before you add on the rack, fenders etc.
I have a late 70's lugged steel frame bike, it weighs about 24 lbs, probably closer to 26 now with the rear rack and fenders.
By comparison my aluminum road bike weighs about 21 lbs, only a 5 lb difference between the two, but 19 lbs lighter than a cheap Walmart bike! A modern $1200 aluminum bike can weigh less than 18 lbs
You don't use your arms to support your weight on a road bike, you use your "core" torso muscles. Try riding in an upright position until your core strengthens enough to ride in an aggressive road bike position.
Source: 31 year old bicycle commuter on an aggressive road bike
Your ratios are a little skewed, but this already happened with the mechanisation of agriculture. Art as a profession didn't exist 4000 years ago, then we had plows attached to oxen, and nowadays we have so many artists people find them annoying
It's still an achievement. If you look at it objectively the middle man only exists to expedite sales of cars from the manufacturer to the end user. If it's now more efficent to get the product to the end user directly than working through a proxy, you've cut out a step. In the era before instantanious cheap/free communication the middle man was an important center of local product knowledge, now we have wikis and fedex. I can troubleshoot and order an alternator for a rare car on the internet and install it myself, I don't need the specialized knowledge of the BMW dealership to do this for me anymore. Electric cars have even fewer moving parts to maintain.
Liquid oxygen (part one of a two part fuel solution these devices use, part 2 being highly refined kerosene, or "RP-1") requires specialized holding facilities and due to it's temperature can't be stored on a truck for more than a couple of days in any usable quantities, which means their "home base" can't be more than 10-15 miles away. That's still a big area, but pretty easy to monitor with satellite photography.
Germany is a snow covered, overcast hellscape for a decent chunk of the year (they border Denmark, Poland, Switzerland, etc) yet they manage to lead western Europe (Sunny Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal included!) in solar generation. Do you have citation for those line losses? Everything I've read says single digit line losses, even trans continental.
30 square miles of unfarmable salt flats, solar is a pretty good use of the space, really. Not to mention jump starting the local solar panel industry something fierce.
I actually had learn what EBCDIC was to use it in a NEW production process in October last year (2013). Nobody on the project knew what it was (we're all in our 30's), but it was easier to learn EBCDIC than try to rewrite the mainframe process that was spitting out the EBCDIC files. Except one guy who knew what it was and kept correcting our pronunciation of Ebb-kah-dic.
Win 8, 8.1 still does this, but you can override it using a powershell command, otherwise there's a GUI function that will trigger the powershell command for you.
If China uses my information to come up with a cheaper way for everyone to sit around in their underwear drinking beer reading news on the internet, where do I sign?
Nobody hires IBM because they're cheap. You hire IBM because you want it done right the first time, on time. That said, that's a $15 per customer for what is I'm guessing a monthly billing process.
12 people built and ran instagram before it was bought out by facebook. They created $1.2 billion dollars of value. That's $100 million each. To generate $100 million in value in the manufacturing sector requires considerably more resources, long term investments and planning. And employees. And management.
The mail order company I worked for, their online division kept growing and growing the share of sales but they didn't lay off anyone in the mail order division due to loyalty to the employees. But they also didn't hire anyone new. Newcomers to their market don't even have a printed catalog anymore, and mail orders are processed by the IT staff on an ad hoc basis. Newcomer companies just have 2-3 employees where legacy companies have 20 or more along with 10 years of paper records to store and organize.
Yesterday I wrote a script that automates 80% of my coworker's job which was manual data entry for our system, which will allow our department to shed 1-2 jobs over the next 2-3 years.
Heck the financial industry used to be 100% manually processed and employed many many thousands of people across the country, now most trades are processed through four or five "large" firms who employ a couple hundred employees each in just a few cities.
Brick and mortar retail is seeing a decline matched almost dollar for dollar with gains in online retail, especially on holiday sales events.
If you don't see the data, it's because you're actively avoiding looking for it.
It sucks as a product in 2014, but it also scores as a 6.1 out of 10 on the "good enough"scale, which is why nobody has tried replacing it. It's also why apps like utorrent still exist.
vBulletin is pretty solid software from an end-user standpoint. It's more or less the standard interface that all other BB software emulates. Even if it's not perfect. It's also easy to administer and is ready to go out of the box. I've seen a lot of open source options that are similar, but vBulletin seems to do it best. I'm a little surprised that the OP would look down on a pretty standard product.
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Explain how you get helium out of natural gas? During the drilling phase? You can't "make" atomic elements...
It's a stand alone Microsoft product that - shocker - has deep integration many of their flagship products. in addition to having SQL capabilities, it can even write files to native Microsoft file systems! Talk about getting sucked in to the walled garden!
It's a tabbed version of WordPad that allows you to paste in images, spreadsheet snippets, text etc, but has Deep Hooks in to Sharepoint to create things like programmable checklists for manual tasks that email out the results. It's been around since at least 2007. In the right hands it's very powerful but most people ignore it.
Coal gets a bad rap because almost all of our coal energy comes from 1970s era plants that have been getting exemptions from required upgrades for close to 50 years now. The plants that have been built since then (about 5% of all current plants) are awesome technological marvels, but they're in the vast minority.
The Jetsons also didn't have stairs, curbs, pedal controls and all the other obstacles that legs are really good at overcoming.
SCOTUS is bog-standard, IANAL but AFAIK you should be able to figure out SCOTSO Nevada. If he had said SCOTSN you might have had a point. IMHO.
The patent for the Teletype machine was issued in 1907, any variation thereof, up to and including paper punch cards would probably invalidate the patent.
Your immune system is virtually bullet proof under those circumstances
Cheap steel bikes can weigh north of 40 lbs, yep. Heavy Aluminum bikes can weigh north of 32 lbs. My roommate has a folding aluminum bike, it's 36 lbs before you add on the rack, fenders etc.
I have a late 70's lugged steel frame bike, it weighs about 24 lbs, probably closer to 26 now with the rear rack and fenders.
By comparison my aluminum road bike weighs about 21 lbs, only a 5 lb difference between the two, but 19 lbs lighter than a cheap Walmart bike! A modern $1200 aluminum bike can weigh less than 18 lbs
TL;DR not all steel bikes are made the same.
You don't use your arms to support your weight on a road bike, you use your "core" torso muscles. Try riding in an upright position until your core strengthens enough to ride in an aggressive road bike position.
Source: 31 year old bicycle commuter on an aggressive road bike
Yes, Titanium is not a ferrous material.
Your ratios are a little skewed, but this already happened with the mechanisation of agriculture. Art as a profession didn't exist 4000 years ago, then we had plows attached to oxen, and nowadays we have so many artists people find them annoying
Cuba recently (last 18 months) had an undersea line laid from Cuba to Venezuela. Previously they could only connect via Satellite link.
It's still an achievement. If you look at it objectively the middle man only exists to expedite sales of cars from the manufacturer to the end user. If it's now more efficent to get the product to the end user directly than working through a proxy, you've cut out a step. In the era before instantanious cheap/free communication the middle man was an important center of local product knowledge, now we have wikis and fedex. I can troubleshoot and order an alternator for a rare car on the internet and install it myself, I don't need the specialized knowledge of the BMW dealership to do this for me anymore. Electric cars have even fewer moving parts to maintain.
Liquid oxygen (part one of a two part fuel solution these devices use, part 2 being highly refined kerosene, or "RP-1") requires specialized holding facilities and due to it's temperature can't be stored on a truck for more than a couple of days in any usable quantities, which means their "home base" can't be more than 10-15 miles away. That's still a big area, but pretty easy to monitor with satellite photography.
Germany is a snow covered, overcast hellscape for a decent chunk of the year (they border Denmark, Poland, Switzerland, etc) yet they manage to lead western Europe (Sunny Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal included!) in solar generation. Do you have citation for those line losses? Everything I've read says single digit line losses, even trans continental.
30 square miles of unfarmable salt flats, solar is a pretty good use of the space, really. Not to mention jump starting the local solar panel industry something fierce.
Probably using the same Halliburton designed-and-tested valve technology as "too big to fail" deep water horizon.
I actually had learn what EBCDIC was to use it in a NEW production process in October last year (2013). Nobody on the project knew what it was (we're all in our 30's), but it was easier to learn EBCDIC than try to rewrite the mainframe process that was spitting out the EBCDIC files. Except one guy who knew what it was and kept correcting our pronunciation of Ebb-kah-dic.
Win 8, 8.1 still does this, but you can override it using a powershell command, otherwise there's a GUI function that will trigger the powershell command for you.
If China uses my information to come up with a cheaper way for everyone to sit around in their underwear drinking beer reading news on the internet, where do I sign?
Nobody hires IBM because they're cheap. You hire IBM because you want it done right the first time, on time. That said, that's a $15 per customer for what is I'm guessing a monthly billing process.
12 people built and ran instagram before it was bought out by facebook. They created $1.2 billion dollars of value. That's $100 million each. To generate $100 million in value in the manufacturing sector requires considerably more resources, long term investments and planning. And employees. And management.
The mail order company I worked for, their online division kept growing and growing the share of sales but they didn't lay off anyone in the mail order division due to loyalty to the employees. But they also didn't hire anyone new. Newcomers to their market don't even have a printed catalog anymore, and mail orders are processed by the IT staff on an ad hoc basis. Newcomer companies just have 2-3 employees where legacy companies have 20 or more along with 10 years of paper records to store and organize.
Yesterday I wrote a script that automates 80% of my coworker's job which was manual data entry for our system, which will allow our department to shed 1-2 jobs over the next 2-3 years.
Heck the financial industry used to be 100% manually processed and employed many many thousands of people across the country, now most trades are processed through four or five "large" firms who employ a couple hundred employees each in just a few cities.
Brick and mortar retail is seeing a decline matched almost dollar for dollar with gains in online retail, especially on holiday sales events.
If you don't see the data, it's because you're actively avoiding looking for it.
It sucks as a product in 2014, but it also scores as a 6.1 out of 10 on the "good enough"scale, which is why nobody has tried replacing it. It's also why apps like utorrent still exist.
vBulletin is pretty solid software from an end-user standpoint. It's more or less the standard interface that all other BB software emulates. Even if it's not perfect. It's also easy to administer and is ready to go out of the box. I've seen a lot of open source options that are similar, but vBulletin seems to do it best. I'm a little surprised that the OP would look down on a pretty standard product.