I totally empathize with the failed assignment. I had a similar problem at one point.
Though looking back, it does teach a valuable lesson. Make sure that your product reflects all the initial design requirements. If a customer gives you a design requirement and you ignore it, that's a problem.
Plus I would imagine that depending on the complexity of the design that service and repair would be fairly simple. Certainly nowhere near as complex as cargo aircraft. Probably more on the order of an automobile. Really the big things you would need to do in the field is maintaining the integrity of the gasbag and keep a fairly simple prop motor running. In the event of a catastrophic failure of the vehicle, the operating company could just send another one out a pick it up and carry it to a service center.
Yeah, I think this would be attractive for developing areas.
It might have been an attempt at user selection. It might be reasonable to assume the kinds of workgroups that would adopt Wave are the kinds of people that can network and scrounge invites. The non-geek workgroups that don't have the network to beg for invites are probably not the ones that Google wanted to evaluate the beta version.
I don't know any of this, I'm just supposing.
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Wait, so you're saying that every unsuccessful idea explored by an innovating tech company is a flop? Sure Google has explored some business areas that have not panned out, but that's just how innovation works. Do you have any idea how much money Microsoft blows through in R&D for products that never make it to market? I don't, but I'm betting they consider it a pretty typical business expense.
Checkout was deployed in a limited area to evaluate interest and real world functionality. Google determined that it was not worth pursuing and dropped it. Not every idea is going to hit it big.
Look at Gmail. How long did it stay in Beta? How many options were made available in Labs? Some hit it big, some did not. That's how innovation works. Google has just been successful enough with their hits to be able to live through their misses.
Nobody is coming into your home and forcing you to submit to an airport security screening. You have the option not to fly. Even if you chose to fly, you do have the option not to pass through full body scanners and the right to refuse strip searches. If you don't want to submit to it, that's cool. For the record I wouldn't submit to it either.
As far as the capability of the system to store images, that is simply going to be the case with any system that runs on computers. The Print Screen and photo image examples you gave are certainly possible, but are not really the point. The system was designed with the ability to store images disabled. What you are talking about are human actions that are outside of the normal operation of the system. Those kinds of abuses are possible in any system that involves people, full body imaging or not.
There is a big difference between the policy makers/program managers and the operational people responsible for running the system. It is no surprise to me to hear the leadership saying "we won't store images" (I truly believe in good faith) and then some middle manager deciding just to capture the recordings anyway.
There is nothing moral about killing someone. Period.
That's incredibly naive, or at minimum is a very unique moral position. Unprovoked aggressive military action may immoral (situationally dependent), but to make a blanket statement that all killing is wrong is foolish. Some of us have been fortunate to have grown up in areas of the world where killing each other for resources is not a daily part of life, many many other people are not so lucky. What do you think of our military involvement in, say, Somalia or Bosnia? Do you think it was wrong for our soldiers and airmen to kill people to prevent the massacre of entire communities?
Honoring our soldiers is the biggest hoax I've seen - there is no pride in butchering others, even if it is cloaked in "duty for your nation".
Just recognize that our relatively comfortable lifestyle has been secured by generations of soldiers that actively work to eliminate threats to our way of life. Call it imperialistic if you want, but recognize that without some big strong men to protect us we would literally be slaving in someone else's fields right now.
I probably shouldn't be feeding the trolls, but I'm really confused by posts like these....
Is this poster seriously trying to get someone to click that link? Or is this a tongue-in-cheek amateurish attempt? In the context of some discussions I could see how this could be funny, but I really don't get how it might apply here. It's not even like he's trying to get me to buy something. He apparently just wants me to click on that link and get fired/dumped/suffer PTSD. Seems really spiteful.
I think that varies. Pool owners in MA are required to fence pools deeper than 24" and to have a method of securing ladders to free standing above ground pools at least 4' off the ground.
I don't know what the laws are like elsewhere, but I would imagine that in the absence of laws that the home insurer would have some safety requirements.
You're retarded. You're trying to be cute by tossing up a "citation needed" as if this were an academically oriented scientific debate. Had the pool been inspected and permitted it would likely have been held to a higher standard of construction and would be less likely to fail. This is logic not research.
They do, I just had some repairs done on a laptop from Best Buy.
My experience was that they tried really hard to get me to buy their extended warranty and data protection service before they would even talk to me about the manufacturers warranty. After spending 20 minutes on the phone with them all they did was just gave me the phone number to contact Dell support. Dell, of course, spent more time trying to sell me on their extended warranty service before they would talk to me about the existing manufacturers warranty.
If you buy electronics from any of the box stores, you should educate yourself on what warranty support you already have before taking it in. They will sell you hard on their extended warranties (even after the device is broken).
Do you usually scream irrationally angry questions at all the advertisements you see? Those are questions you direct towards sales while you are evaluating the product. Failing to address those in an advertisement is hardly grounds to get cranky.
I don't know what the difference with the automotive cable is either, but I assume that the High Speed with Ethernet would work for all needs.
The automotive cable probably has better more rugged insulation than would be needed in the home. I have no personal experience with these systems, but I would assume that engine heat, rain water, and road salt are death to electronics. I would expect to pay a little more for those ruggedized cables in that case. But not a whole lot more.
Don't forget the all important "playing games" category where retailers try to come up with the most outlandish explanations for the premium widgets and compare stories in the breakroom. I understand it stems from the unending boredom of the job.
Ha! I used to work part time at the electronics section of a big box retailer during college. Obviously we weren't individually commissioned, but our store manager would reward us with food and free crap if the department posted good sales numbers. We used to really enjoy pulling off outlandish justifications for fun and profit. We would even refer distrusting customers to our "cabling specialist" for more information. At the time, we felt like we needed to have fun with it to stay sane.
Now grown up me wants the chance to meet up with the smart-ass 19 year old me and punch me right in the face for trying to sell me junk.
Is that a serious product? It lists as a feature: "signal directional markings are provided for optimum signal transfer". This signal direction marking appears to just be a set of arrows that point up and down the cable. Literally they marked which direction the signal is travelling, which is up and down the cable. Also "woven jacketing to reduce vibration". Vibration?!?! Seriously?
But the core drivetrain is all EV. Its got a Gasoline generator on board, but that's not the power source for the vehicle. When the battery dies on this you charge it with the generator, the only difference between this and other EV's is that the others rely on the coal plants that supply energy to the grid. The key in my mind is that the vehicle is functional without a drop of gasoline.
Agreed. The ability to forget its something that animals developed as a mechanism to recover memory storage from older memories. Forgetting is a fact of organic life because our fleshy storage capacities are limited. Digital storage technologies are not nearly so limited.
Retaining knowledge and passing it along to future generations is what makes societies work. It is a disservice to our descendants to ignore that. Shakespeare wrote his plays 500 years ago, and people are still reading them. Maybe in 500 years people will be looking back at FFVII, Pacman, or Farmville as items of major cultural significance.
A friend of mine had his Jeep Wrangler broken into. He had a simple button down soft top on it at the time, the idiot thief sliced through the soft top to open the door.
Electricians I used to work with would replace the guts of their old broken power tools with the guts of the new shiny ones, leaving the old busted plastic casing.
To be funny, they would then put the old guts into the new shiny cases and leave them lying around for people to find and steal. Eventually people stopped stealing tools from their job sites because even their new pretty tools didn't work.
The Romans had a military culture of exceptional brutality and effectiveness. They would also very rarely withdraw from a fight, and would generally much rather throw incredible numbers of troops into a situation to guarantee a "victory". They did this in order to threaten opponents into surrender without actually having to fight.
Weapon technology aside, the Romans were intentionally brutal in order to deter people from fighting them. We are somewhat less intimidating.
Much of the thinking behind the massed formations was to consolidate fire. Weapons at the time these tactics were practiced were extremely inaccurate and time consuming to reload. One shooter was not expected to hit anything, but a massed group of shooters was. Advances in rifle and shot design were allowing for much more accurate weapons with less time to reload. Americans picked up this technology quickly, to a society of colonial hunters this was a fantastic tool. The British army was just a little bit slower to adapt to changing technology.
A lot of the concern about the "dishonorable" American militia was because American shooters would selectively target British officers, scouts, nobles etc. during engagements. This made it extremely difficult for British military command to manage the war and to control its own troops (who tended to be a little barbaric in the absence of firm leadership).
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I totally empathize with the failed assignment. I had a similar problem at one point.
Though looking back, it does teach a valuable lesson. Make sure that your product reflects all the initial design requirements. If a customer gives you a design requirement and you ignore it, that's a problem.
Plus I would imagine that depending on the complexity of the design that service and repair would be fairly simple. Certainly nowhere near as complex as cargo aircraft. Probably more on the order of an automobile. Really the big things you would need to do in the field is maintaining the integrity of the gasbag and keep a fairly simple prop motor running. In the event of a catastrophic failure of the vehicle, the operating company could just send another one out a pick it up and carry it to a service center.
Yeah, I think this would be attractive for developing areas.
It might have been an attempt at user selection. It might be reasonable to assume the kinds of workgroups that would adopt Wave are the kinds of people that can network and scrounge invites. The non-geek workgroups that don't have the network to beg for invites are probably not the ones that Google wanted to evaluate the beta version.
I don't know any of this, I'm just supposing.
Self reply, I replied to the wrong post. Sorry please don't hate me!
Wait, so you're saying that every unsuccessful idea explored by an innovating tech company is a flop? Sure Google has explored some business areas that have not panned out, but that's just how innovation works. Do you have any idea how much money Microsoft blows through in R&D for products that never make it to market? I don't, but I'm betting they consider it a pretty typical business expense.
Checkout was deployed in a limited area to evaluate interest and real world functionality. Google determined that it was not worth pursuing and dropped it. Not every idea is going to hit it big.
Look at Gmail. How long did it stay in Beta? How many options were made available in Labs? Some hit it big, some did not. That's how innovation works. Google has just been successful enough with their hits to be able to live through their misses.
Painful.
It's buzzword friendly! It allows you to leverage your synergies or something.
Nobody is coming into your home and forcing you to submit to an airport security screening. You have the option not to fly. Even if you chose to fly, you do have the option not to pass through full body scanners and the right to refuse strip searches. If you don't want to submit to it, that's cool. For the record I wouldn't submit to it either.
As far as the capability of the system to store images, that is simply going to be the case with any system that runs on computers. The Print Screen and photo image examples you gave are certainly possible, but are not really the point. The system was designed with the ability to store images disabled. What you are talking about are human actions that are outside of the normal operation of the system. Those kinds of abuses are possible in any system that involves people, full body imaging or not.
There is a big difference between the policy makers/program managers and the operational people responsible for running the system. It is no surprise to me to hear the leadership saying "we won't store images" (I truly believe in good faith) and then some middle manager deciding just to capture the recordings anyway.
There is nothing moral about killing someone. Period.
That's incredibly naive, or at minimum is a very unique moral position. Unprovoked aggressive military action may immoral (situationally dependent), but to make a blanket statement that all killing is wrong is foolish. Some of us have been fortunate to have grown up in areas of the world where killing each other for resources is not a daily part of life, many many other people are not so lucky. What do you think of our military involvement in, say, Somalia or Bosnia? Do you think it was wrong for our soldiers and airmen to kill people to prevent the massacre of entire communities?
Honoring our soldiers is the biggest hoax I've seen - there is no pride in butchering others, even if it is cloaked in "duty for your nation".
Just recognize that our relatively comfortable lifestyle has been secured by generations of soldiers that actively work to eliminate threats to our way of life. Call it imperialistic if you want, but recognize that without some big strong men to protect us we would literally be slaving in someone else's fields right now.
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I probably shouldn't be feeding the trolls, but I'm really confused by posts like these....
Is this poster seriously trying to get someone to click that link? Or is this a tongue-in-cheek amateurish attempt? In the context of some discussions I could see how this could be funny, but I really don't get how it might apply here. It's not even like he's trying to get me to buy something. He apparently just wants me to click on that link and get fired/dumped/suffer PTSD. Seems really spiteful.
I think that varies. Pool owners in MA are required to fence pools deeper than 24" and to have a method of securing ladders to free standing above ground pools at least 4' off the ground.
I don't know what the laws are like elsewhere, but I would imagine that in the absence of laws that the home insurer would have some safety requirements.
citation needed
You're retarded. You're trying to be cute by tossing up a "citation needed" as if this were an academically oriented scientific debate. Had the pool been inspected and permitted it would likely have been held to a higher standard of construction and would be less likely to fail. This is logic not research.
Also 2+2=4. Do not ask me to cite it.
They do, I just had some repairs done on a laptop from Best Buy.
My experience was that they tried really hard to get me to buy their extended warranty and data protection service before they would even talk to me about the manufacturers warranty. After spending 20 minutes on the phone with them all they did was just gave me the phone number to contact Dell support. Dell, of course, spent more time trying to sell me on their extended warranty service before they would talk to me about the existing manufacturers warranty.
If you buy electronics from any of the box stores, you should educate yourself on what warranty support you already have before taking it in. They will sell you hard on their extended warranties (even after the device is broken).
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Do you usually scream irrationally angry questions at all the advertisements you see? Those are questions you direct towards sales while you are evaluating the product. Failing to address those in an advertisement is hardly grounds to get cranky.
I don't know what the difference with the automotive cable is either, but I assume that the High Speed with Ethernet would work for all needs.
The automotive cable probably has better more rugged insulation than would be needed in the home. I have no personal experience with these systems, but I would assume that engine heat, rain water, and road salt are death to electronics. I would expect to pay a little more for those ruggedized cables in that case. But not a whole lot more.
Don't forget the all important "playing games" category where retailers try to come up with the most outlandish explanations for the premium widgets and compare stories in the breakroom. I understand it stems from the unending boredom of the job.
Ha! I used to work part time at the electronics section of a big box retailer during college. Obviously we weren't individually commissioned, but our store manager would reward us with food and free crap if the department posted good sales numbers. We used to really enjoy pulling off outlandish justifications for fun and profit. We would even refer distrusting customers to our "cabling specialist" for more information. At the time, we felt like we needed to have fun with it to stay sane.
Now grown up me wants the chance to meet up with the smart-ass 19 year old me and punch me right in the face for trying to sell me junk.
Is that a serious product? It lists as a feature: "signal directional markings are provided for optimum signal transfer". This signal direction marking appears to just be a set of arrows that point up and down the cable. Literally they marked which direction the signal is travelling, which is up and down the cable. Also "woven jacketing to reduce vibration". Vibration?!?! Seriously?
That is beyond ridiculous.
But the core drivetrain is all EV. Its got a Gasoline generator on board, but that's not the power source for the vehicle. When the battery dies on this you charge it with the generator, the only difference between this and other EV's is that the others rely on the coal plants that supply energy to the grid. The key in my mind is that the vehicle is functional without a drop of gasoline.
Agreed. The ability to forget its something that animals developed as a mechanism to recover memory storage from older memories. Forgetting is a fact of organic life because our fleshy storage capacities are limited. Digital storage technologies are not nearly so limited.
Retaining knowledge and passing it along to future generations is what makes societies work. It is a disservice to our descendants to ignore that. Shakespeare wrote his plays 500 years ago, and people are still reading them. Maybe in 500 years people will be looking back at FFVII, Pacman, or Farmville as items of major cultural significance.
I'm sorry, can you put that into a car analogy?
A friend of mine had his Jeep Wrangler broken into. He had a simple button down soft top on it at the time, the idiot thief sliced through the soft top to open the door.
Electricians I used to work with would replace the guts of their old broken power tools with the guts of the new shiny ones, leaving the old busted plastic casing.
To be funny, they would then put the old guts into the new shiny cases and leave them lying around for people to find and steal. Eventually people stopped stealing tools from their job sites because even their new pretty tools didn't work.
The Romans had a military culture of exceptional brutality and effectiveness. They would also very rarely withdraw from a fight, and would generally much rather throw incredible numbers of troops into a situation to guarantee a "victory". They did this in order to threaten opponents into surrender without actually having to fight.
Weapon technology aside, the Romans were intentionally brutal in order to deter people from fighting them. We are somewhat less intimidating.
Much of the thinking behind the massed formations was to consolidate fire. Weapons at the time these tactics were practiced were extremely inaccurate and time consuming to reload. One shooter was not expected to hit anything, but a massed group of shooters was. Advances in rifle and shot design were allowing for much more accurate weapons with less time to reload. Americans picked up this technology quickly, to a society of colonial hunters this was a fantastic tool. The British army was just a little bit slower to adapt to changing technology.
A lot of the concern about the "dishonorable" American militia was because American shooters would selectively target British officers, scouts, nobles etc. during engagements. This made it extremely difficult for British military command to manage the war and to control its own troops (who tended to be a little barbaric in the absence of firm leadership).