Same here. Also have a Samsung TV that if connected to the internet will also force ads to the screen on power up. No opt out either. Since I use a computer to drive the TV I only connect to the internet to DL firmware updates maybe once a year. This is getting worse with each iteration of TVs that they release. If a person buys a TV and keeps it for 10 years then they have little chance of capturing any further revenue from them, like it or not this is the way they are all going. There was an interview with the head of Visio that stated much the same as well.
Having installed one of the supercharger locations I can tell you that they are not exactly light weight on the power. Each charging cabinet was fed with 480Vac @ 175Amps, 3 phase. About 145KW. Each cabinet had a pair of chargers. The units were water cooled too. Pretty nicely engineered affair to be honest. I really would not want to put my car on one of the V2 units, Lithium batteries prefer to be charged at a more sedate rate. I can only imagine just how bad the V3 would fuck them up!
Great, two companies with beyond shitty customer service are combining to deliver "Next level" shitty products and services to stupid people with more money than brains!
The fucking coward is simply to scared to show up there because he knows that just about every American, and likely a large segment of the rest of the developed world, hate his fucking guts! The little shit is a shill for the Cellular and cable providers here in the states. Hope his plane crashes next time though!
Our contractors and the military are running on 40-60 year old tech. They are incapable of fixing this and to scared that it will bring a portion of the national defense down for a time in the process so nothing will ever be done. That is until a rouge nation actually launches one of our nukes!
I bought a model M new in a box about 27 years ago, still using the very same one to this day with little to no sign of it giving up the ghost. By far the very best KB I have ever owned, period!
No doubt that allot of what you state is likely true but I think it goes even deeper.
The facts are that the tablets on the market have rather lackluster performance due to the choice of processor and hardware surrounding it. Most of the displays are sub par as well. Updates to the OS seldom come or when they do they have so much bloat ware and trash as to sully the experience even further and piss people off. Worse yet are "Updates" that actually purposely slow down an owners older but otherwise perfectly usable tablet in an attempt to force them to ditch it and buy new.
The service from these top players is really total SHIT!!! I know this first hand as I have been at the rape alter of Samsung over a top of the line tablet that the sound failed on after only 2 weeks. They could not fix it and since they didn't have a replacement device they offered a refund that was over $160.00 less than I payed for the device from them direct. Needless to say I am not taking it and fighting it out with them. DON'T BUY SAMSUNG!!! Their service is by far the worst I have yet to experience from any company so far. 19 days and still nothing.
They have failed to integrate the ability of one to use their phone and tablet interchangeably in any real way. I would love to be able to use my phone and set it down and pick up with my tablet where I left off and visa versa. Even use it to make cell calls etc. But this means that they have all of my data as they only will do this sort of thing if they can data mine the living shit out of you. WiFi would work just fine but they would not allow or develop that.
Overall it is just a pretty gaming device and web surfer for most with little utility beyond that.
This is yet another attempt by the internet providers to suck at the public tit. Basically it is let the public pay for the roll out and then hand it to the big corporations to squeeze out every red cent they can from the hapless public. All the while they laugh at us paying our taxes, which payed for the roll out in the first place, while they pay little or nothing in taxes.
I suspect that they were "Retired" to make the bottom line look good for the quarterly or year end stock reports. The execs have got to get their bonus's regardless of merit! Also keep in mind that the people they "retired" were likely those with allot of vacation time accrued and at the highest pay grades not to mention older. Hence they cost more to keep. Forget the extensive experience they take with them when they leave, the company saves 10K or 20K per year by getting rid of them. Likely the cost to production losses is 10 times that by hay, the execs and investors gotta get payed!
Though I generally agree with your assessment of the issues there are a few I can take an alternate view of.
First is that the strike to the cables would not have lasted long enough to cause heat induced weakening of them, But... The high current upon entering the the wet concrete could have caused the water to flash over to steam and maybe induce cracking in the structure.
Second is the rebar embedded in the concrete supports has definitely corroded leading to weakened bonding and compromised structure internally. All concrete structures suffer this issue over time. Some deal with it by using epoxy coated rebar, some use composite rebar, and others use stainless steel to stave off this inevitable failure.
Third is that the bridge was carrying four times the original traffic it was designed for and at speeds likely far in excess of those thought prudent at the time of design and build. This again added to the stressed induced on the structure and I would submit accelerated its failure.
It is very likely that there were one or more engineers blowing the caution horn for some time now. It is also likely that they were flatly ignored, removed from the job, or sent elsewhere to silence them. Nice to see that the higher ups that lost their jobs at Morton Thiokol found new places to work and ways to kill others.
Kind of thought the very same thing.
They are not air gaped if "trusted" vendors can remote into the network to access the building controls/ energy management systems from the outside. There is literally no way to stop this sort of attack short of having a completely self contained network with no outside internet connections and connected via dedicated fibres run with the high tension lines connecting the various generating plants and sub stations. So this will not happen. Get a generator and make sure you have a big propane tank to feed the beast if the Gas gets turned off too.
I suspect that the attendant is a part of this. The fact is that there is a power interrupt at every station both outside and in. The one outside is clearly marked and easy to access. Pumps are very easy to turn off. Fishy!
Only Keyboards we have in the house. I presently use an M built on 13 Jan, 1982 that I bought new in a box at a parking lot sale for $5.00. Best investment ever for the best keyboard ever designed and built!
There are a number of very real issues I see with this sort of device in the restaurant on the table. The first of which is that they for sure will have a single server cover more tables. This based on the fact that they are not really having to interact with the customers nearly as much. A good on the ball server can handle around 5-7 tables and give excellent service. What happens when they are told that they have to handle the needs of 10-14 tables? Also, the customer is now handling what has traditionally been the job of the waiter, IE taking and placing their order! Though I would not give a business that used these my patronage if I did I would reduce their TIP. I suspect that this would be a fair bit of the public as well.
Places like the home depot and lowes both have self checkout and actively promote customers to use them. I refuse for a couple of reasons. First and foremost they take away the job of the checker and put a person out of a job. The second is that they are generally far more clunky and problematic than are the POS terminals that the payed checkers use. The third issue is that they fail to pay me for my time and efforts, IE: Where is my fucking discount for doing your job!
Data driven reviews from these systems are tainted by the stupidity of the the general public taking them. Lets say that the kitchen staff screws up the order. I know that this never happens but lets just assume is does just this once. The arrogant and entitled customer is pissed and shits on the waiter for this and worse articulates this via the survey bashing the waiter. Shitty kitchen staff could even help this along for a waiter they don't like to much by intentionally pooching orders for their tables to enhance the likelihood of poor feedback.
There is really allot to not like about these systems and very little in my view. This is yet another way for a company to reduce one more of the issues (staff problems) in the business and make more money in the process. In the end it is just one more shuffling step towards a dystopian society and less value placed on human beings in the name of profits.
I doubt it. I suspect this to be the rantings of a company head and board that have missed the starting gun on a technology and are looking to put the break on so they can play catch up to those that are years ahead. Think Microsoft and the web as an example.
To be honest there are very few Tape machines in the tracking chain at this point. They are very expensive and troublesome to run and maintain. Though they sound fantastic to be sure they just cant hold a candle to a 24bit 96K recording let alone a 192K above. There are technical reasons that the tape sounds better to some. Mostly this is due to the non linear nature of the beast at the upper limits of the recorded energy on the tape and the distortion that results. This does have an undeniable acoustic charm to most everyone that listens to it. It can also be mostly replicated with good modern digital plug ins for the DAW. The digital recordings just have to many advantages like vanishingly small distortion and noise and massive headroom. These are the attributes tape just can't touch. Even a tape deck with Dolby SR will not be able to touch it. This is simply fact and not conjecture. I have heard a 1/2" 2 track master with SR and it is fantastic. I have worked on both 2" 16 and 24 track machines. They are a ball of knotted stomach when recording. The trouble and cost are no where near worth it. In the end most of the albums are tracked to digital recorders. Even if you are using an analog desk with fancy outboard tube or vintage transistor mic preamps by the likes of say Neve or SpectraSonics to name a couple and old effects like an EMT plate reverb in the end you are going to be editing in the digital domain. The real issue now days is that allot of the people recording and mixing the music now days are crap hacks! The likes of Parsons, or Trefethen, or Lynne are just not out there anymore. The game is about money, not music. If idiots are gonna buy vinyl they will press it for them and charge a premium too. I do have a nice turntable and a very nice home grown preamp but in the end I would much prefer to have the music in an uncompressed 24/96 or better format. As to the tape, well despite anything that the few out there tell you, the reel to reel tapes are coming off of a digital master. There is no way to keep the original quality of the master if you play it every time you roll off a copy. This is the nature of analog tape.
And your robot is going to come in and asses the best way to lay out the pipes in the ground based on conditions? Nope. Its going to layout and install boxes in the walls, drill wire paths, and pull in the wire in the walls and then staple? Nope. It is going to install pumps and motor controls and time them into EMS? Nope. I could go on but I won't. And your brick layer there, its one thing to put bricks dry stacked on one another with no rebar. It is a whole other matter to mortar the joins, set the blocks perfect and straight and control the slump and settle of them. Then follow up and point the joints. I am willing to bet that an experienced crew will put up as much or more block in a day than the machine and it will be finished just as straight and nice. Automation is not the answer to every job. Also, when your fancy machine breaks down you will spend more than you save getting a guy on site to trouble shoot the system and repair it. I will not mention the lost productivity.
And there sir you are wrong. I am a service electrician. I am the guy that gets called when the other electricians can't figure it out. I work in all areas of electrical from the basic outlet and switch stuff in the home to PLC and motor controls, networking, conduit work etc. In this trade the adage of "you get what you pay for is very true". The employers know this and are more than willing to pay for the skills, attention to detail, and especially the deep knowledge people like me bring to the table. I work and make a decent living with no problems supporting myself and the GF on my income. Seldom are those with a 4, 6, or 8 year degree able to say that out of the chute. The construction trades are a very good place to go now and for the foreseeable future. Electrical, plumbing, and HVAC especially so.
The amusing part is that there is still the exterior and the interior walls to be built and attached to the basic foam and concrete structure. In the end I am willing to be that the cost for material and labor is on a par with traditional building methods. A factory built home is faster and far better built than this thing and can be dried in in less than a day for a basic home. It will also be about 90% finished at that time. An alternate is to use something like the Smartblock system or the like. A good crew and lay all the blocks and rebar in a day and pour them the following day with High/Early concrete.Trusses and roof on the third and you are done. There are allot of different systems and all are likely faster than this. Oh yah, the foam parts A and B are expensive as all hell!
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Same here. Also have a Samsung TV that if connected to the internet will also force ads to the screen on power up. No opt out either. Since I use a computer to drive the TV I only connect to the internet to DL firmware updates maybe once a year. This is getting worse with each iteration of TVs that they release. If a person buys a TV and keeps it for 10 years then they have little chance of capturing any further revenue from them, like it or not this is the way they are all going. There was an interview with the head of Visio that stated much the same as well.
Having installed one of the supercharger locations I can tell you that they are not exactly light weight on the power. Each charging cabinet was fed with 480Vac @ 175Amps, 3 phase. About 145KW. Each cabinet had a pair of chargers. The units were water cooled too. Pretty nicely engineered affair to be honest. I really would not want to put my car on one of the V2 units, Lithium batteries prefer to be charged at a more sedate rate. I can only imagine just how bad the V3 would fuck them up!
Great, two companies with beyond shitty customer service are combining to deliver "Next level" shitty products and services to stupid people with more money than brains!
The fucking coward is simply to scared to show up there because he knows that just about every American, and likely a large segment of the rest of the developed world, hate his fucking guts! The little shit is a shill for the Cellular and cable providers here in the states. Hope his plane crashes next time though!
Our contractors and the military are running on 40-60 year old tech. They are incapable of fixing this and to scared that it will bring a portion of the national defense down for a time in the process so nothing will ever be done. That is until a rouge nation actually launches one of our nukes!
I bought a model M new in a box about 27 years ago, still using the very same one to this day with little to no sign of it giving up the ghost. By far the very best KB I have ever owned, period!
Let me be the first to say "FUCK FACEBOOK!"
No doubt that allot of what you state is likely true but I think it goes even deeper.
The facts are that the tablets on the market have rather lackluster performance due to the choice of processor and hardware surrounding it. Most of the displays are sub par as well. Updates to the OS seldom come or when they do they have so much bloat ware and trash as to sully the experience even further and piss people off. Worse yet are "Updates" that actually purposely slow down an owners older but otherwise perfectly usable tablet in an attempt to force them to ditch it and buy new.
The service from these top players is really total SHIT!!! I know this first hand as I have been at the rape alter of Samsung over a top of the line tablet that the sound failed on after only 2 weeks. They could not fix it and since they didn't have a replacement device they offered a refund that was over $160.00 less than I payed for the device from them direct. Needless to say I am not taking it and fighting it out with them. DON'T BUY SAMSUNG!!! Their service is by far the worst I have yet to experience from any company so far. 19 days and still nothing.
They have failed to integrate the ability of one to use their phone and tablet interchangeably in any real way. I would love to be able to use my phone and set it down and pick up with my tablet where I left off and visa versa. Even use it to make cell calls etc. But this means that they have all of my data as they only will do this sort of thing if they can data mine the living shit out of you. WiFi would work just fine but they would not allow or develop that.
Overall it is just a pretty gaming device and web surfer for most with little utility beyond that.
This is yet another attempt by the internet providers to suck at the public tit. Basically it is let the public pay for the roll out and then hand it to the big corporations to squeeze out every red cent they can from the hapless public. All the while they laugh at us paying our taxes, which payed for the roll out in the first place, while they pay little or nothing in taxes.
EXACTLY!
My thought exactly. They are a country of laws and would never think of doing such things...
I suspect that they were "Retired" to make the bottom line look good for the quarterly or year end stock reports. The execs have got to get their bonus's regardless of merit! Also keep in mind that the people they "retired" were likely those with allot of vacation time accrued and at the highest pay grades not to mention older. Hence they cost more to keep. Forget the extensive experience they take with them when they leave, the company saves 10K or 20K per year by getting rid of them. Likely the cost to production losses is 10 times that by hay, the execs and investors gotta get payed!
There is a very high likely hood that the next time he will simply kill the woman outright. The dead don't testify.
Though I generally agree with your assessment of the issues there are a few I can take an alternate view of.
First is that the strike to the cables would not have lasted long enough to cause heat induced weakening of them, But... The high current upon entering the the wet concrete could have caused the water to flash over to steam and maybe induce cracking in the structure.
Second is the rebar embedded in the concrete supports has definitely corroded leading to weakened bonding and compromised structure internally. All concrete structures suffer this issue over time. Some deal with it by using epoxy coated rebar, some use composite rebar, and others use stainless steel to stave off this inevitable failure.
Third is that the bridge was carrying four times the original traffic it was designed for and at speeds likely far in excess of those thought prudent at the time of design and build. This again added to the stressed induced on the structure and I would submit accelerated its failure.
It is very likely that there were one or more engineers blowing the caution horn for some time now. It is also likely that they were flatly ignored, removed from the job, or sent elsewhere to silence them. Nice to see that the higher ups that lost their jobs at Morton Thiokol found new places to work and ways to kill others.
Kind of thought the very same thing. They are not air gaped if "trusted" vendors can remote into the network to access the building controls/ energy management systems from the outside. There is literally no way to stop this sort of attack short of having a completely self contained network with no outside internet connections and connected via dedicated fibres run with the high tension lines connecting the various generating plants and sub stations. So this will not happen. Get a generator and make sure you have a big propane tank to feed the beast if the Gas gets turned off too.
I suspect that the attendant is a part of this. The fact is that there is a power interrupt at every station both outside and in. The one outside is clearly marked and easy to access. Pumps are very easy to turn off. Fishy!
Only Keyboards we have in the house. I presently use an M built on 13 Jan, 1982 that I bought new in a box at a parking lot sale for $5.00. Best investment ever for the best keyboard ever designed and built!
There are a number of very real issues I see with this sort of device in the restaurant on the table. The first of which is that they for sure will have a single server cover more tables. This based on the fact that they are not really having to interact with the customers nearly as much. A good on the ball server can handle around 5-7 tables and give excellent service. What happens when they are told that they have to handle the needs of 10-14 tables? Also, the customer is now handling what has traditionally been the job of the waiter, IE taking and placing their order! Though I would not give a business that used these my patronage if I did I would reduce their TIP. I suspect that this would be a fair bit of the public as well.
Places like the home depot and lowes both have self checkout and actively promote customers to use them. I refuse for a couple of reasons. First and foremost they take away the job of the checker and put a person out of a job. The second is that they are generally far more clunky and problematic than are the POS terminals that the payed checkers use. The third issue is that they fail to pay me for my time and efforts, IE: Where is my fucking discount for doing your job!
Data driven reviews from these systems are tainted by the stupidity of the the general public taking them. Lets say that the kitchen staff screws up the order. I know that this never happens but lets just assume is does just this once. The arrogant and entitled customer is pissed and shits on the waiter for this and worse articulates this via the survey bashing the waiter. Shitty kitchen staff could even help this along for a waiter they don't like to much by intentionally pooching orders for their tables to enhance the likelihood of poor feedback.
There is really allot to not like about these systems and very little in my view. This is yet another way for a company to reduce one more of the issues (staff problems) in the business and make more money in the process. In the end it is just one more shuffling step towards a dystopian society and less value placed on human beings in the name of profits.
I doubt it. I suspect this to be the rantings of a company head and board that have missed the starting gun on a technology and are looking to put the break on so they can play catch up to those that are years ahead. Think Microsoft and the web as an example.
To be honest there are very few Tape machines in the tracking chain at this point. They are very expensive and troublesome to run and maintain. Though they sound fantastic to be sure they just cant hold a candle to a 24bit 96K recording let alone a 192K above. There are technical reasons that the tape sounds better to some. Mostly this is due to the non linear nature of the beast at the upper limits of the recorded energy on the tape and the distortion that results. This does have an undeniable acoustic charm to most everyone that listens to it. It can also be mostly replicated with good modern digital plug ins for the DAW. The digital recordings just have to many advantages like vanishingly small distortion and noise and massive headroom. These are the attributes tape just can't touch. Even a tape deck with Dolby SR will not be able to touch it. This is simply fact and not conjecture. I have heard a 1/2" 2 track master with SR and it is fantastic. I have worked on both 2" 16 and 24 track machines. They are a ball of knotted stomach when recording. The trouble and cost are no where near worth it. In the end most of the albums are tracked to digital recorders. Even if you are using an analog desk with fancy outboard tube or vintage transistor mic preamps by the likes of say Neve or SpectraSonics to name a couple and old effects like an EMT plate reverb in the end you are going to be editing in the digital domain. The real issue now days is that allot of the people recording and mixing the music now days are crap hacks! The likes of Parsons, or Trefethen, or Lynne are just not out there anymore. The game is about money, not music. If idiots are gonna buy vinyl they will press it for them and charge a premium too. I do have a nice turntable and a very nice home grown preamp but in the end I would much prefer to have the music in an uncompressed 24/96 or better format. As to the tape, well despite anything that the few out there tell you, the reel to reel tapes are coming off of a digital master. There is no way to keep the original quality of the master if you play it every time you roll off a copy. This is the nature of analog tape.
And your robot is going to come in and asses the best way to lay out the pipes in the ground based on conditions? Nope. Its going to layout and install boxes in the walls, drill wire paths, and pull in the wire in the walls and then staple? Nope. It is going to install pumps and motor controls and time them into EMS? Nope. I could go on but I won't. And your brick layer there, its one thing to put bricks dry stacked on one another with no rebar. It is a whole other matter to mortar the joins, set the blocks perfect and straight and control the slump and settle of them. Then follow up and point the joints. I am willing to bet that an experienced crew will put up as much or more block in a day than the machine and it will be finished just as straight and nice. Automation is not the answer to every job. Also, when your fancy machine breaks down you will spend more than you save getting a guy on site to trouble shoot the system and repair it. I will not mention the lost productivity.
And there sir you are wrong. I am a service electrician. I am the guy that gets called when the other electricians can't figure it out. I work in all areas of electrical from the basic outlet and switch stuff in the home to PLC and motor controls, networking, conduit work etc. In this trade the adage of "you get what you pay for is very true". The employers know this and are more than willing to pay for the skills, attention to detail, and especially the deep knowledge people like me bring to the table. I work and make a decent living with no problems supporting myself and the GF on my income. Seldom are those with a 4, 6, or 8 year degree able to say that out of the chute. The construction trades are a very good place to go now and for the foreseeable future. Electrical, plumbing, and HVAC especially so.
Service electrician here, Love to see it happen. No debt and always have a reliable and good paying job, recession or no recession.
OR they never had a facebook account in the first place for the very same reason!
The amusing part is that there is still the exterior and the interior walls to be built and attached to the basic foam and concrete structure. In the end I am willing to be that the cost for material and labor is on a par with traditional building methods. A factory built home is faster and far better built than this thing and can be dried in in less than a day for a basic home. It will also be about 90% finished at that time. An alternate is to use something like the Smartblock system or the like. A good crew and lay all the blocks and rebar in a day and pour them the following day with High/Early concrete.Trusses and roof on the third and you are done. There are allot of different systems and all are likely faster than this. Oh yah, the foam parts A and B are expensive as all hell!