We could also argue that if it truly is that bad, then we could let convicts opt to serve their 20 year sentence via a 20 year time delay drug, correct?
Anyway, this is just funny to me after seeing the movie Dredd handle this exact same thing. Give them the time delay drug, and throw them off a building.
Hard to say, but I imagine it has to do with the price they purchased them for being so low in the first place. The 30k figure Sparkfun has talked about appears to be the value they would have sold them for, not what they paid. I'm guessing they actually paid something closer to $5 per unit, at which point it very well could make more sense to destroy them and buy new ones with different colors.
You have to realize that these are VERY cheap products made in China, so the threshold for viable returns is probably very low, regardless of the reason.
The very first thing I was taught by my mentor back in '02 was to create a CYA file for every project or job I work on. No verbal requests, so everything has to be submitted in writing. After a meeting where project details are discussed, for example, send a "recap" email to everyone involved.
It's not just for government contracts either. Do it with everything.
That's your problem. You're dreaming of starting a company, when you should be dreaming of that innovative new product. Once you have that, THEN you start the company.
It seems unlikely that Fluke would have even known about the shipment, much less been in a position to request it. Also, I seriously doubt the company would benefit from much "goodwill" over the ordeal. Their target market is kind of niche, and not exactly prone to making buying decisions based on Facebook polls or whatever. Plus, letting a possibly-inferior product that can be mistaken for their own loose in the wild would mean much more in potential damages to their rep than any "goodwill" gained from the exemption.
Sparkfun does bring up a good point, however. They didn't really do anything "wrong" yet still get hit with a financial loss big enough to sink a lot of businesses. There currently is no system in place for them to have been able to vet the order beforehand for possible trademark violations, aside from retaining lawyers to check out every product they want to order. That may very well be SOP for large companies with deep pockets and lawyers on staff, but it's entirely unlikely that any small business could afford it, much less realize it's something they need to do.
At the end of the day, it's just another roadblock on a road that's already full of them, for anyone looking to start or expand their business.
Travel time, sure. But the spacecraft originates from plans laid in the early 80's, and it wasn't actually approved until the late 80's. So basically it took 15 to 20 years to get from "here to there."
We've pretty much hit the point where future missions to explore places like Titan are decades down the road, since people don't seem to think NASA should be properly funded.
Maybe you've missed just how piss poor the quality of people coming out of our universities really is. Most are partying their years away while pursuing some liberal arts or psych degree, when what we need is STEM graduates. It gets worse when you look at everything other than the top-tier uni's and start to see the crap coming out of various for-profit "tech" schools.
Or we can take a look at high school, and see how there is practically no correlation between good grades and actual intelligence or knowledge. If you show up to class, and make sure you do whatever shit-ton of extra credit is available, you'll get 3.8+. The kids graduating from high school today largely ARE crap. The thing is, it's always been like that. We just had a healthy middle-class-friendly society where anyone could make a living working in a factory or whatever. But now that those opportunities are gone, we have to figure out what to do with all the chaff.
What is this? "Read the headline and comment" day? Greenspan is saying that the US education system is broken, and needs to be fixed.
"We cannot manage our very complex, highly sophisticated capital structure with what's coming out of our high schools," said Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve."
He talks about having to expand the H-1B system if we don't actually address the problems in our education system here in America. Read the fucking article, people.
That's not a problem with Alibaba. It's an issue with China, in general. They've never been very good at original thinking, at least not in the last few hundred years. They have been good at imitation, however. Probably because they make all the legitimate stuff for us. I imagine trade secrets and product specifications flow pretty freely between manufacturers in that country.
The world is basically starting to overflow with way more people than positions. As a result, it's dividing into societies with vast gaps between the very few people who control the money, and everyone else just looking for a chance to serve (or be employed). Some societies are further down this line than others, but you can look at China as an example of what the end-game will be like for the rest of the world within the next 100 years. All the nice things in life will become scarce enough that only the wealthiest can afford them. The rest of us will simply work to make them happy. Upward mobility will become as unlikely as jumping across the Grand Canyon, without the middle-class as a bridge.
These weird educational issues are just symptoms of it happening here in America. We're pushing everyone to "go to college" while the businesses here continue to eliminate employment opportunities due to outsourcing and automation. Even the outsourcing strategy is starting to backfire, due to companies realizing that when they aren't employing people in America, then they can't sell stuff to the people in America. It's why most companies right now are looking at China as the next (and final) phase. The "1%" in China is still a huge number of people, so that will work for a while.
I'd be surprised if we don't have an "Arab Spring" or "French Revolution" happening in this country within the next 20 years. The average white conservative male has been able to blame the misfortunes of minorities on rap music, or skin color, or laziness, or whatever, but now that they are starting to share demographics with such "undesirables" shit is going to hit the fan.
I think the idea is to create demand which will bring the pricing down over time. What will start out as a niche device could easily become the new standard. The problem, like others have pointed out, is that music created today is generally too crappy to benefit from the wider range of sound during recording. It's all about volume and bass, not range.
Also, Neil Young have never given a fuck about what other people think. He's created a career out of, in fact.
Replaced by more coal plants. Seriously, that's what would happen.
Existing plants close down, causing energy prices to go up dramatically. Someone will decide that now's a good time to enter such an advantageous market, and build new plants with less competition. Other join, resulting in nothing more than wasted money. A lot of wasted money, at that.
Why is so much emphasis put on enrollment rates, and not graduation rates? CS has a pretty high level of attrition (same with most STEM fields really), so I'd rather see numbers reflecting actual graduates.
If someone asked me to "go check a website" and the site URL looked like some random malware host, I'd probably not choose his 25 cent task either. What is this guy smoking?
Yeah, within first paragraph I realized his issue is just a generic DNS issue as a result of using his default ISP settings. Besides the fact that DNS does take some time to propagate changes to the world, most ISP's or even DNS providers like OpenDNS, still cache their databases to some extent for the sake of less traffic.
I think the OP qualifies as the kind of person who "knows enough to be dangerous, but nothing more."
With the low priority that most states place on road maintenance, the last thing we need is a poorly-maintained lightrail system right in the middle of that.
Slashdot Mirror
"Take a TOR of our lovely walled garden!"
We could also argue that if it truly is that bad, then we could let convicts opt to serve their 20 year sentence via a 20 year time delay drug, correct?
Anyway, this is just funny to me after seeing the movie Dredd handle this exact same thing. Give them the time delay drug, and throw them off a building.
They sell the units for $15 each.
I know Fluke, but I had no idea that Fluke had a patent on the yellow border thing. That's approaching "rectangles and rounded corners" territory.
Hard to say, but I imagine it has to do with the price they purchased them for being so low in the first place. The 30k figure Sparkfun has talked about appears to be the value they would have sold them for, not what they paid. I'm guessing they actually paid something closer to $5 per unit, at which point it very well could make more sense to destroy them and buy new ones with different colors.
You have to realize that these are VERY cheap products made in China, so the threshold for viable returns is probably very low, regardless of the reason.
The very first thing I was taught by my mentor back in '02 was to create a CYA file for every project or job I work on. No verbal requests, so everything has to be submitted in writing. After a meeting where project details are discussed, for example, send a "recap" email to everyone involved.
It's not just for government contracts either. Do it with everything.
That's your problem. You're dreaming of starting a company, when you should be dreaming of that innovative new product. Once you have that, THEN you start the company.
It seems unlikely that Fluke would have even known about the shipment, much less been in a position to request it. Also, I seriously doubt the company would benefit from much "goodwill" over the ordeal. Their target market is kind of niche, and not exactly prone to making buying decisions based on Facebook polls or whatever. Plus, letting a possibly-inferior product that can be mistaken for their own loose in the wild would mean much more in potential damages to their rep than any "goodwill" gained from the exemption.
Sparkfun does bring up a good point, however. They didn't really do anything "wrong" yet still get hit with a financial loss big enough to sink a lot of businesses. There currently is no system in place for them to have been able to vet the order beforehand for possible trademark violations, aside from retaining lawyers to check out every product they want to order. That may very well be SOP for large companies with deep pockets and lawyers on staff, but it's entirely unlikely that any small business could afford it, much less realize it's something they need to do.
At the end of the day, it's just another roadblock on a road that's already full of them, for anyone looking to start or expand their business.
Travel time, sure. But the spacecraft originates from plans laid in the early 80's, and it wasn't actually approved until the late 80's. So basically it took 15 to 20 years to get from "here to there."
We've pretty much hit the point where future missions to explore places like Titan are decades down the road, since people don't seem to think NASA should be properly funded.
Maybe you've missed just how piss poor the quality of people coming out of our universities really is. Most are partying their years away while pursuing some liberal arts or psych degree, when what we need is STEM graduates. It gets worse when you look at everything other than the top-tier uni's and start to see the crap coming out of various for-profit "tech" schools.
Or we can take a look at high school, and see how there is practically no correlation between good grades and actual intelligence or knowledge. If you show up to class, and make sure you do whatever shit-ton of extra credit is available, you'll get 3.8+. The kids graduating from high school today largely ARE crap. The thing is, it's always been like that. We just had a healthy middle-class-friendly society where anyone could make a living working in a factory or whatever. But now that those opportunities are gone, we have to figure out what to do with all the chaff.
What is this? "Read the headline and comment" day? Greenspan is saying that the US education system is broken, and needs to be fixed.
"We cannot manage our very complex, highly sophisticated capital structure with what's coming out of our high schools," said Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve."
He talks about having to expand the H-1B system if we don't actually address the problems in our education system here in America. Read the fucking article, people.
That's not a problem with Alibaba. It's an issue with China, in general. They've never been very good at original thinking, at least not in the last few hundred years. They have been good at imitation, however. Probably because they make all the legitimate stuff for us. I imagine trade secrets and product specifications flow pretty freely between manufacturers in that country.
The world is basically starting to overflow with way more people than positions. As a result, it's dividing into societies with vast gaps between the very few people who control the money, and everyone else just looking for a chance to serve (or be employed). Some societies are further down this line than others, but you can look at China as an example of what the end-game will be like for the rest of the world within the next 100 years. All the nice things in life will become scarce enough that only the wealthiest can afford them. The rest of us will simply work to make them happy. Upward mobility will become as unlikely as jumping across the Grand Canyon, without the middle-class as a bridge.
These weird educational issues are just symptoms of it happening here in America. We're pushing everyone to "go to college" while the businesses here continue to eliminate employment opportunities due to outsourcing and automation. Even the outsourcing strategy is starting to backfire, due to companies realizing that when they aren't employing people in America, then they can't sell stuff to the people in America. It's why most companies right now are looking at China as the next (and final) phase. The "1%" in China is still a huge number of people, so that will work for a while.
I'd be surprised if we don't have an "Arab Spring" or "French Revolution" happening in this country within the next 20 years. The average white conservative male has been able to blame the misfortunes of minorities on rap music, or skin color, or laziness, or whatever, but now that they are starting to share demographics with such "undesirables" shit is going to hit the fan.
Oh hell, you're right. Apparently I pay as much attention to typing as they do Tech.
I think the idea is to create demand which will bring the pricing down over time. What will start out as a niche device could easily become the new standard. The problem, like others have pointed out, is that music created today is generally too crappy to benefit from the wider range of sound during recording. It's all about volume and bass, not range.
Also, Neil Young have never given a fuck about what other people think. He's created a career out of, in fact.
The creators of CSI are hands-down either the most tech-illiterate people on the planet, or the best Trolls in the industry. I can't tell which it is.
Here's a real gem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Replaced by more coal plants. Seriously, that's what would happen.
Existing plants close down, causing energy prices to go up dramatically. Someone will decide that now's a good time to enter such an advantageous market, and build new plants with less competition. Other join, resulting in nothing more than wasted money. A lot of wasted money, at that.
And hearing aids.
Why is so much emphasis put on enrollment rates, and not graduation rates? CS has a pretty high level of attrition (same with most STEM fields really), so I'd rather see numbers reflecting actual graduates.
It involves economics, which does fall under the news for nerds side of things. I, for one, am interested in the data.
If someone asked me to "go check a website" and the site URL looked like some random malware host, I'd probably not choose his 25 cent task either. What is this guy smoking?
Yeah, within first paragraph I realized his issue is just a generic DNS issue as a result of using his default ISP settings. Besides the fact that DNS does take some time to propagate changes to the world, most ISP's or even DNS providers like OpenDNS, still cache their databases to some extent for the sake of less traffic.
I think the OP qualifies as the kind of person who "knows enough to be dangerous, but nothing more."
With the low priority that most states place on road maintenance, the last thing we need is a poorly-maintained lightrail system right in the middle of that.
And here I've been reading all about companies stripping away their telecommuting options...