From the article is seems that NG installed and ran the system for a while but only after the state people took over did it experience a lot of problems. I'm curious what is causing these outages before I'll blame either NG for not installing backups or the state for not budgeting them.
Don't worry about the food - it's far better than the rumor has it
My observation while in London is that the more animals in the name of the pub, the better the food. For example, a place called "the quick brown fox pub" would just be OK, while a place called "the quick dog and hunting stallion chasing three white stags pub" is going to be excellent.
Wow, that's some serious grasping at straws to justify calling digital watches a testament to humanity because one might be the only thing found by aliens a thousand years after all humans are killed. Maybe the probes we were able to send to our moon and other local solar system bodies, hmm? But no, nevermind that low tech crap - these extinct creatures here had little electronic timepieces on their appendages! Brilliant!
Except of course that management ALREADY HAS that because they've been very lucky for 7 years
Whoa there - so using this logic we can assume the company has no fire insurance, etc, because they've been lucky and not had their building burn down in 7 years? Managers might not understand technical issue but one thing managers worth the title CAN do is manage risk ie: balance cost of risk mitigation against risk. I can well imagine a company of 150 people that actually doesn't have any mission critical servers worth spending a lot on redundancy, etc. I can also imagine a company that has gotten lucky while at the same time, the IT person(s) haven't explained IT risks/costs in proper terms because they assume the managers just aren't technical.
The original questioner definitely needs to do a proper risk / cost analysis and present it to the managers. (But right now his "ideas" are WAY too vague and not business need driven) A prompt, proper analysis and plan/alternate plan(s) for risk and risk avoidance is going seriously wanted. It will CYA for that magic moment any day now when these 7 year old systems start failing.
the cheapest digital watch is *far* more of a testament to the ingenuity of the human race than anything that will ever be in a mechanical watch
You're quite the modern person in your assessment. The invention of the portable, accurate, timepiece (starting with marine chronometers and proceeding to wristwatches and pocketwatches) in the mid 1700's revolutionized the world like the invention of the telephone or printing press. That cheap electronic watches were then invented as a byproduct technology from the invention of the integrated circuit had practically no impact by themselves. Be impressed with the invention of the IC in general, sure, but the digital watch? Please.
Mechanical watches, clearly, represent a tremendous milestone in the ingenuity of the human race that digital watches never have and never will be able to claim. But it is nice how cheap they are compared to the fancy mechanical ones.
Anyone who likes and can afford their current plan is also exempt!
Substitute "business" for "anyone". The vast majority of people in the US who have private insurance get it from their employer. The businesses make decisions based on cost. So when the government subsidized system comes online no private insurance can hope to compete with the price. So no, not many people will get to keep their existing coverage - their employers would be fools (from a cost accounting point of view) to keep it. This is the simple business logic that everyone promoting this plan as some kind of choice conveniently ignores.
If the average speed is 45 mph, and he was stopped at the end (ie speed 0), then at some point he was going above 45
This is all very nice but you've pulled the word "average" out of the air. Nowhere does the article suggest that this is an average speed. The entire controversy is that the GPS in question only takes a snapshot every 30 seconds and the question is whether the speed in the interval was or was not able to be the speed the cop claimed. The court is only claiming that the speed could have been higher than 45 in the missing seconds, not that there was some average speed calculation going on. br>Think about it - after you leave home an average speed calculation would never have shown the zero at the stoplight unless he sat at a red for an hour.
Do the clean, renewable energy project get to pick up the bill for the clean up?
You mean: "do the taxpayers pick up the bill for the cleanup?" Renewable energy is not economically feasible so it's already a taxpayer burden in the first place.
There's nothing wrong with complaining about monopolies
No, you just sometimes waste your breath doing so. Monopolies are only bad when they engage in coercive activities to keep out new competitors. Natural monopolies on the other hand, are not really bad compared to the benefits. Imagine what the landscape would look like if there were 20 companies all stringing power lines to every neighborhood to compete for home electrical power.
This game software "monopoly" being complained about is 1: not a monopoly because there are several competitors I can think of without even searching and 2: its potential competitors have barriers to entry that are really low. The complainer is a CEO fer cryin' out loud - he must know some people with cash and starting up a new web based service with policies he considers fair wouldn't have any outrageous barriers to entry.
In California this breaks down to: 10 million per mile for environmental impact studies 20 million per mile in lawsuits related to the environmental impact studies 20 million per mile in kickbacks 56 million per mile in construction costs thanks to union labor wages
These will be the actual per-mile costs due to lowball estimating in order to get the project started and to take on a life of its own so it will be completed no matter what the final costs.
Herd immunity works in biology because the distance to travel to another unprotected host is too far or takes too long for the virus to survive floating around. But with networked computers that isn't really an issue, is it? It might take a little longer to scan ports on more addresses but for an automated virus in a computer whose owner isn't patching it anyway, this isn't a big deal. Everyone who thinks they know better feel free to contradict me, I'm just speculating:
Name one TV show where the family lives in a house or an apartment realistic for what the income level for their job should be
Hah, this is easy: it was the entire premise for The Jeffersons
Also, a good case can be made for Gilligan's Island. Since they had no incomes at all (even the Howells who for practical purposes couldn't access their investment income) so coconut wood and leaf huts were 100% reflective of that.
in a country that's already socialist, with full corporate sponsorship.
You have the most amazing case of bipolar view I've ever seen. Make up your mind, please! Are you worried about socialism or capitalism? Most people agree these are nearly opposites.
Now imagine your wife or girlfriend, with a can of soda constantly in her hand, weighing 300 pounds
Besides this horrible image, what, exactly, is your point? So the person in this situation doesn't care about themselves enough to exercise and/or eat properly, the spouse is unable or unwilling to intervene enough, so your solution is that the government has to do it? Why, oh why, do we need government to protect us from ourselves??? Let her be 300lbs or on the way there, and she and her family must deal with it. Not everyone else. It does NOT take a village to enforce thinness.
What's this? How many illegal immigrants can fit in a 8GB microsd card, anyway? Oh, wait, that's not what they're searching for on the Mexican border? No wonder it's such a problem...
show me an ocean liner or container train that can do 250km/h
Please, I have to know what airship travels at 250km/h. I think the British WWII era R100 went about 100km/h and it was the fastest ever. And that was a completely rigid style. The modern ones aren't even rigid airships; they are 'semirigid' which limits their speed quite a bit.
Also note the word efficient in my original. There's no way to make an airship that can carry a decent fraction of the number of people who can ride on a train or ocean liner. So really, while it would be cool to have a cruise ship type airship to ride, my original prediction still stands IMO: it would never replace basic (cheap and fast) long distance travel.
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From the article is seems that NG installed and ran the system for a while but only after the state people took over did it experience a lot of problems. I'm curious what is causing these outages before I'll blame either NG for not installing backups or the state for not budgeting them.
And be sure to take a small power strip,
Be careful with this advice - a lot of power strips will blow the surge protector when plugged into 220v. Get one that doesn't have a circuit breaker.
Don't worry about the food - it's far better than the rumor has it
My observation while in London is that the more animals in the name of the pub, the better the food. For example, a place called "the quick brown fox pub" would just be OK, while a place called "the quick dog and hunting stallion chasing three white stags pub" is going to be excellent.
Wow, that's some serious grasping at straws to justify calling digital watches a testament to humanity because one might be the only thing found by aliens a thousand years after all humans are killed. Maybe the probes we were able to send to our moon and other local solar system bodies, hmm? But no, nevermind that low tech crap - these extinct creatures here had little electronic timepieces on their appendages! Brilliant!
(Thanks for the laugh!)
the sextant was only made possible by the accurate machining of screw threads
And the sextant only reached its full potential when the marine chronometer was invented.
Except of course that management ALREADY HAS that because they've been very lucky for 7 years
Whoa there - so using this logic we can assume the company has no fire insurance, etc, because they've been lucky and not had their building burn down in 7 years? Managers might not understand technical issue but one thing managers worth the title CAN do is manage risk ie: balance cost of risk mitigation against risk. I can well imagine a company of 150 people that actually doesn't have any mission critical servers worth spending a lot on redundancy, etc. I can also imagine a company that has gotten lucky while at the same time, the IT person(s) haven't explained IT risks/costs in proper terms because they assume the managers just aren't technical.
The original questioner definitely needs to do a proper risk / cost analysis and present it to the managers. (But right now his "ideas" are WAY too vague and not business need driven) A prompt, proper analysis and plan/alternate plan(s) for risk and risk avoidance is going seriously wanted. It will CYA for that magic moment any day now when these 7 year old systems start failing.
the cheapest digital watch is *far* more of a testament to the ingenuity of the human race than anything that will ever be in a mechanical watch
You're quite the modern person in your assessment. The invention of the portable, accurate, timepiece (starting with marine chronometers and proceeding to wristwatches and pocketwatches) in the mid 1700's revolutionized the world like the invention of the telephone or printing press. That cheap electronic watches were then invented as a byproduct technology from the invention of the integrated circuit had practically no impact by themselves. Be impressed with the invention of the IC in general, sure, but the digital watch? Please.
Mechanical watches, clearly, represent a tremendous milestone in the ingenuity of the human race that digital watches never have and never will be able to claim. But it is nice how cheap they are compared to the fancy mechanical ones.
$35 charge per vote
Are you from Chicago?
Oh, wait, you mean the voters have to pay the politicians?
Anyone who likes and can afford their current plan is also exempt!
Substitute "business" for "anyone". The vast majority of people in the US who have private insurance get it from their employer. The businesses make decisions based on cost. So when the government subsidized system comes online no private insurance can hope to compete with the price. So no, not many people will get to keep their existing coverage - their employers would be fools (from a cost accounting point of view) to keep it. This is the simple business logic that everyone promoting this plan as some kind of choice conveniently ignores.
If the average speed is 45 mph, and he was stopped at the end (ie speed 0), then at some point he was going above 45
This is all very nice but you've pulled the word "average" out of the air. Nowhere does the article suggest that this is an average speed. The entire controversy is that the GPS in question only takes a snapshot every 30 seconds and the question is whether the speed in the interval was or was not able to be the speed the cop claimed. The court is only claiming that the speed could have been higher than 45 in the missing seconds, not that there was some average speed calculation going on.
br>Think about it - after you leave home an average speed calculation would never have shown the zero at the stoplight unless he sat at a red for an hour.
I think "politician" is the most derogatory name you can call someone.
I always thought it was 'nigger'.
I always thought it was 'anonymous coward'
The blades might be hard to transport but the summary says the Chinese are making the turbines, not the blades.
Which part of $1.5B isn't beneficial? Their banks collect interest and their manufacturers make sales.
Meanwhile, 36K acres to power 150K homes? Doesn't a nice nuclear plant only need 100 acres or so to provide power that same number?
I am not in the market for a new 787
Heck, I am.
OK, so lining up financing has me stumped, but I'm totally in the market otherwise.
Do the clean, renewable energy project get to pick up the bill for the clean up?
You mean: "do the taxpayers pick up the bill for the cleanup?" Renewable energy is not economically feasible so it's already a taxpayer burden in the first place.
There's nothing wrong with complaining about monopolies
No, you just sometimes waste your breath doing so. Monopolies are only bad when they engage in coercive activities to keep out new competitors. Natural monopolies on the other hand, are not really bad compared to the benefits. Imagine what the landscape would look like if there were 20 companies all stringing power lines to every neighborhood to compete for home electrical power.
This game software "monopoly" being complained about is 1: not a monopoly because there are several competitors I can think of without even searching and 2: its potential competitors have barriers to entry that are really low. The complainer is a CEO fer cryin' out loud - he must know some people with cash and starting up a new web based service with policies he considers fair wouldn't have any outrageous barriers to entry.
Valve is exploiting a lot of people in a way that's not totally fair
So start a competitor with policies you consider to be fair.
And stop whining, btw.
And it's not just posters on /. - a guy from Wired wrote a whole book on this misconception. The funny part is that his ebook is for sale on Kindle.
56 million dollars per mile
In California this breaks down to:
10 million per mile for environmental impact studies
20 million per mile in lawsuits related to the environmental impact studies
20 million per mile in kickbacks
56 million per mile in construction costs thanks to union labor wages
These will be the actual per-mile costs due to lowball estimating in order to get the project started and to take on a life of its own so it will be completed no matter what the final costs.
Herd immunity works in biology because the distance to travel to another unprotected host is too far or takes too long for the virus to survive floating around. But with networked computers that isn't really an issue, is it? It might take a little longer to scan ports on more addresses but for an automated virus in a computer whose owner isn't patching it anyway, this isn't a big deal. Everyone who thinks they know better feel free to contradict me, I'm just speculating:
Name one TV show where the family lives in a house or an apartment realistic for what the income level for their job should be
Hah, this is easy: it was the entire premise for The Jeffersons
Also, a good case can be made for Gilligan's Island. Since they had no incomes at all (even the Howells who for practical purposes couldn't access their investment income) so coconut wood and leaf huts were 100% reflective of that.
in a country that's already socialist, with full corporate sponsorship.
You have the most amazing case of bipolar view I've ever seen. Make up your mind, please! Are you worried about socialism or capitalism? Most people agree these are nearly opposites.
Now imagine your wife or girlfriend, with a can of soda constantly in her hand, weighing 300 pounds
Besides this horrible image, what, exactly, is your point? So the person in this situation doesn't care about themselves enough to exercise and/or eat properly, the spouse is unable or unwilling to intervene enough, so your solution is that the government has to do it? Why, oh why, do we need government to protect us from ourselves??? Let her be 300lbs or on the way there, and she and her family must deal with it. Not everyone else. It does NOT take a village to enforce thinness.
Or hide a microSD card inside a cake?
What's this? How many illegal immigrants can fit in a 8GB microsd card, anyway? Oh, wait, that's not what they're searching for on the Mexican border? No wonder it's such a problem...
show me an ocean liner or container train that can do 250km/h
Please, I have to know what airship travels at 250km/h. I think the British WWII era R100 went about 100km/h and it was the fastest ever. And that was a completely rigid style. The modern ones aren't even rigid airships; they are 'semirigid' which limits their speed quite a bit.
Also note the word efficient in my original. There's no way to make an airship that can carry a decent fraction of the number of people who can ride on a train or ocean liner. So really, while it would be cool to have a cruise ship type airship to ride, my original prediction still stands IMO: it would never replace basic (cheap and fast) long distance travel.