Isn't this about current production capabilities? Is the An-225 Mriya still being produced?
I ask because the summary seemed to imply that this was about who could build big, specialized equipment right now. There are several technologies (steel presses come to mind) which have been built in the past, but for which there is no capacity (yeah - actually zero) to build today. The fabrication shops and foundries would have to be built from scratch to reproduce the old equipment. Heck, you couldn't build another space shuttle today either (not that you'd particularly want to) - there's just nobody actively operating a facility building them.
I won't bother RTFA, but I find it somewhat disturbing, but not too surprising, that robots are not used. For high tolerance work, automated equipment is key to production speed. But these aren't really production machines in the traditional sense - they're all low volume, and likely customized for each buyer. That means hand work.
No, congress needs to specify that, for items where the transaction is not placed in person but originates in the US, the sale is defined as occurring in the state where the corporation is registered. (That would make for some interesting corporate jockeying, because though Delaware doesn't have a sales tax, they do have a gross receipts tax)
"these companies exist but are very expensive. Probably because it's a nightmare to figure out what to charge for which address at what time for which product."
No, they're very expensive because it's a nightmare to create it yourself from scratch. Once it's done once, it costs nothing to reproduce the tables/software. But because they know it would take $x to create from scratch, charging 0.25 x $x is a reasonable value proposition.
The only possible positive outcome is that by requiring everyone to do it, it may entice more solutions, which will bring the prices down to the reasonable level for small-medium business.
I'm sure that this will all end well for consumers if you just let the capitalist system work. We don't need any business-crippling regulation about ownership and rights. I'm sure if the company who sells implantable devices that keep people from dying stops having people buy their product, they'll loosen up their terms. When it's your life or your data, just tell them you'd rather die. After a few years, if everybody died instead of giving in, the company would have to change their policies or go out of business.
Why do you Democrats who want regulations about these kinds of things hate America so much?
Nope...children, the largest consumer of bread in the home, will still throw away the heels and tear off the crusts. That's 35%, the other 5% is the package that's green 'cause you forgot it was in there.
Do you never go to a conference? Never spend a day away from the office? Never fly across the country? Never take the train...well, anywhere? Never spend a weekend away?
For a truly portable device, the beauty is that it is small and light - and that doesn't include a charger. One piece. Done. No remembering to pack the power cord and the brick. It's the nice thing about the iPad - I can grab it from the charger on Friday afternoon and take it on vacation, knowing full well that I'll not need to charge it over the weekend under normal use. Or my Acer timeline laptop which I can drop into my bag on the way to training and not have to worry about finding a seat next to an outlet, and have people tripping over the cord, because it runs 8 hours on a single 56Wh battery.
I really, really want one of these. It could replace both my iPad and my Acer. But not if it's got a 4 hour battery on a good day.
Sure, 10 hours is a stretch. I get that - sort of.
But I have an 11.6" acer i3 based laptop that gets 8 hours of light usage (the kind of usage that gets my iPad about 8-9 hours of use) on it's "internal" battery of 56 Wh. That laptop is 2 years old and cost me $350.
If MS can't dial in the battery life to show at least 7 hours on a charge, it really will die. It has everything I want - functional, if not perfect, keyboard, top notch screen, 300+ dpi / 1024+ level stylus input, and can run real programs. It's likely to replace both my laptop and tablet. But not if I have to recharge it more frequently than I have to pee.
The whole idea behind the Surface is portability, go anywhere, do anything. 4 Hours is, no questions asked, a deal killer.
Of course there are. They're faster to get certain things done. It's like being surprised that there are applications like Irfanview or Textpad when Photoshop and Word exist.
I have a 48GX, which has several custom written solvers that are core to my work. I also have a Calculated Industries Construction Master. There are very few applications which readily perform functions on feet/inches/fractions as quickly and easily as the CM. (though, I'll admit that if I didn't already own one, I'd probably have bought the iOS version)
HP and ilk should release "native" calculator apps for Android, etc.
They probably figure it will cannabalize their hardware sales (as if we all don't already have the free emulators). I'd probably be willing to drop $10-20 on a really good calculator app, but it would likely be specialized enough that they would need to charge much more.
None of these new graphing calculators are going to be allowed into exams anyway, as they store so much info and all have communication functions which allow them to compromise a testing situation. And, honestly, I find it hard (but not impossible) to envision an actual test scenario where such functions are necessary for solving a problem and yet the ability to hand solve the same equation is not relevant to the material. Truly the exception.
Seriously, I think there may be a higher number of HP48gx users here than anywhere else. And we honestly can't see why you would need or want anything else. Naturally, that's because you probably don't need anything else. At least, not in a calculator.
Of course, I wonder what happens with the move towards mainstream W8 (i.e. x86) tablets, when you really will be able to get [insert favorite full featured math program here] on a 10" tablet that's 1/4" thick, runs 10 hours on a charge, and also runs everything else you use. I already emulate my HP48 on my ipad, but only because all the free calculators for that platform suck mightily. My HP48 stays at my desk. Plus, would you really spend $200 on a calculator if you already owned a $600-800 tablet that ran MATLAB? Yes, the calc is smaller...but the times I'm doing real work that needs heavy duty calcs or graphing AND I _don't_ have a tablet handy are diminishingly small.
Because it's not Linux. How many packages made for the Linux kernel run natively under OSX? None.
You may as well get the Windows laptop for $50 less because it's based on VMS and not only does it "just work," it allows you to natively run more commercial software than any other platform in the world. But you wanted Linux. Not some second rate eye-candy, hold-your-dick-for-you--while-you-pee OS like Windows or OSX.
For a full-featured machine, price is inversely proportional to the weight. A doubling of the weight is a real non-starter for anyone who actually has to carry around a laptop.
...and how much is your time worth to reload Ubuntu and make sure that all the drivers for all the Apple stuff works, or rewrite the drivers which don't work.
There's no magical Apple component that makes it better. Yes, the screen is nicer on the Air (though no better resolution), but it's also likely that the battery life will be significantly sub-optimal (as it is when you put Windows on an Apple device - the optimization goes out the window).
"...past the point of what they can reasonably consume."
And that's why a lot of the "stolen" content has no actual value. If I download a book, and then never read it, have I really consumed the content or taken away a potential sale? Highly unlikely.
I will tell you this - there is nothing more frustrating that buying a digital copy of a reference, and then finding out that (a) it can't be read on one of my devices or (b) I can print or extract excerpts where they are (necessary) appropriate references or (c) I just plain can't get into them because I lost the password or I had to move the original file and the license key is no longer valid and there's nobody on the publishers end to fix it for hours or days. I bought the God damned work, I don't want to wait until you get around to letting me read it so I can get my work done.
Most of what I've bought as digital references I've either cracked, converted and stripped of DRM, or "pirated" (if you can call it pirated when I already paid full price for it). There are some I will simply pirate in the future, because it's too much work to make the product usable. Others (one of which is about $750 for the PDF) I will most likely purchase again when the next update is available (they update it every 3-5 years, I usually get every other cycle), simply because the last version was both unencrypted and fully and meticulously hyperlinked - the absolute model of how a reference should be done. The time savings using that reference is worth the money, imho, and I plan on supporting them.
If he's a manager in a white collar position or nearly any professional field (i.e. one that requires a college degree), he's probably in the top 20%, which is $90k, less than double the median household income in the US, and less than $15k over the median salary for a BS degree, and $10k LESS than the median with a professional degree.
What can they do? Fire you for not being at work. Or charge your "vacation" account instead of your "sick" account (if you haven't yet switched to a single PTO pool).
The whole idea of calling in sick is to get a free day off while not affecting your employment status or your vacation leave balance. Many old-school industries have not yet realized the value of combined PTO (i.e.: any business which hasn't considered the liability of the sick leave currently on their books).
You can just clone a corporation by cutting it into two independent pieces. Like a zombie, but eating money instead of brains. And regenerating all the missing parts instantly after cutting it in two. With the right shell structure, you can usually avoid those problems long enough to get new laws written - like waiting around for the food and ammo to run out on your human victims. With enough lawyers, corporations can just hang out until the conditions are right for consolidation of resources. And a feast of brains.
If you throw cables on the floor for any reason, or string them at random heights or intervals to please one particular person, yes - they can bring all progress to a halt.
Properly planned and distributed, however, they can take a seemingly impossible task - such as spanning a large body of water, capturing a large number of fish, jumping out of an airplane from several thousand feet up and landing safely, or climbing a very tall structure - and make it a straightforward task.
The only difference between gridlock and utility is the thought and care with which the regulations are laid.
He didn't mention he expected 8 weeks of personal leave per year, Cadillac health, and a day a week for personal projects. He's saving that for the negotiations, no doubt.
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Isn't this about current production capabilities? Is the An-225 Mriya still being produced?
I ask because the summary seemed to imply that this was about who could build big, specialized equipment right now. There are several technologies (steel presses come to mind) which have been built in the past, but for which there is no capacity (yeah - actually zero) to build today. The fabrication shops and foundries would have to be built from scratch to reproduce the old equipment. Heck, you couldn't build another space shuttle today either (not that you'd particularly want to) - there's just nobody actively operating a facility building them.
I won't bother RTFA, but I find it somewhat disturbing, but not too surprising, that robots are not used. For high tolerance work, automated equipment is key to production speed. But these aren't really production machines in the traditional sense - they're all low volume, and likely customized for each buyer. That means hand work.
Or simply stop taking showers.
Then the terrorists will have won.
No, congress needs to specify that, for items where the transaction is not placed in person but originates in the US, the sale is defined as occurring in the state where the corporation is registered. (That would make for some interesting corporate jockeying, because though Delaware doesn't have a sales tax, they do have a gross receipts tax)
"these companies exist but are very expensive. Probably because it's a nightmare to figure out what to charge for which address at what time for which product."
No, they're very expensive because it's a nightmare to create it yourself from scratch. Once it's done once, it costs nothing to reproduce the tables/software. But because they know it would take $x to create from scratch, charging 0.25 x $x is a reasonable value proposition.
The only possible positive outcome is that by requiring everyone to do it, it may entice more solutions, which will bring the prices down to the reasonable level for small-medium business.
I'm sure that this will all end well for consumers if you just let the capitalist system work. We don't need any business-crippling regulation about ownership and rights. I'm sure if the company who sells implantable devices that keep people from dying stops having people buy their product, they'll loosen up their terms. When it's your life or your data, just tell them you'd rather die. After a few years, if everybody died instead of giving in, the company would have to change their policies or go out of business.
Why do you Democrats who want regulations about these kinds of things hate America so much?
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Nope...children, the largest consumer of bread in the home, will still throw away the heels and tear off the crusts. That's 35%, the other 5% is the package that's green 'cause you forgot it was in there.
Where does the nutrition go?
Do you never go to a conference? Never spend a day away from the office? Never fly across the country? Never take the train...well, anywhere? Never spend a weekend away?
For a truly portable device, the beauty is that it is small and light - and that doesn't include a charger. One piece. Done. No remembering to pack the power cord and the brick. It's the nice thing about the iPad - I can grab it from the charger on Friday afternoon and take it on vacation, knowing full well that I'll not need to charge it over the weekend under normal use. Or my Acer timeline laptop which I can drop into my bag on the way to training and not have to worry about finding a seat next to an outlet, and have people tripping over the cord, because it runs 8 hours on a single 56Wh battery.
I really, really want one of these. It could replace both my iPad and my Acer. But not if it's got a 4 hour battery on a good day.
Sure, 10 hours is a stretch. I get that - sort of.
But I have an 11.6" acer i3 based laptop that gets 8 hours of light usage (the kind of usage that gets my iPad about 8-9 hours of use) on it's "internal" battery of 56 Wh. That laptop is 2 years old and cost me $350.
If MS can't dial in the battery life to show at least 7 hours on a charge, it really will die. It has everything I want - functional, if not perfect, keyboard, top notch screen, 300+ dpi / 1024+ level stylus input, and can run real programs. It's likely to replace both my laptop and tablet. But not if I have to recharge it more frequently than I have to pee.
The whole idea behind the Surface is portability, go anywhere, do anything. 4 Hours is, no questions asked, a deal killer.
It's got a 24MB flash drive for storage of data and images. I think it will be banned for most tests.
Of course there are. They're faster to get certain things done. It's like being surprised that there are applications like Irfanview or Textpad when Photoshop and Word exist.
I have a 48GX, which has several custom written solvers that are core to my work. I also have a Calculated Industries Construction Master. There are very few applications which readily perform functions on feet/inches/fractions as quickly and easily as the CM. (though, I'll admit that if I didn't already own one, I'd probably have bought the iOS version)
HP and ilk should release "native" calculator apps for Android, etc.
They probably figure it will cannabalize their hardware sales (as if we all don't already have the free emulators). I'd probably be willing to drop $10-20 on a really good calculator app, but it would likely be specialized enough that they would need to charge much more.
None of these new graphing calculators are going to be allowed into exams anyway, as they store so much info and all have communication functions which allow them to compromise a testing situation. And, honestly, I find it hard (but not impossible) to envision an actual test scenario where such functions are necessary for solving a problem and yet the ability to hand solve the same equation is not relevant to the material. Truly the exception.
Seriously, I think there may be a higher number of HP48gx users here than anywhere else. And we honestly can't see why you would need or want anything else. Naturally, that's because you probably don't need anything else. At least, not in a calculator.
Of course, I wonder what happens with the move towards mainstream W8 (i.e. x86) tablets, when you really will be able to get [insert favorite full featured math program here] on a 10" tablet that's 1/4" thick, runs 10 hours on a charge, and also runs everything else you use. I already emulate my HP48 on my ipad, but only because all the free calculators for that platform suck mightily. My HP48 stays at my desk. Plus, would you really spend $200 on a calculator if you already owned a $600-800 tablet that ran MATLAB? Yes, the calc is smaller...but the times I'm doing real work that needs heavy duty calcs or graphing AND I _don't_ have a tablet handy are diminishingly small.
Oh, be honest. Nothing will make you switch from your HP48. Oh, you might get one, but actually switch? Never!
Because it's not Linux. How many packages made for the Linux kernel run natively under OSX? None.
You may as well get the Windows laptop for $50 less because it's based on VMS and not only does it "just work," it allows you to natively run more commercial software than any other platform in the world. But you wanted Linux. Not some second rate eye-candy, hold-your-dick-for-you--while-you-pee OS like Windows or OSX.
For a full-featured machine, price is inversely proportional to the weight. A doubling of the weight is a real non-starter for anyone who actually has to carry around a laptop.
...and how much is your time worth to reload Ubuntu and make sure that all the drivers for all the Apple stuff works, or rewrite the drivers which don't work.
There's no magical Apple component that makes it better. Yes, the screen is nicer on the Air (though no better resolution), but it's also likely that the battery life will be significantly sub-optimal (as it is when you put Windows on an Apple device - the optimization goes out the window).
I wonder what the minimum body size is with standard text. The title really says it all.
But not before putting all links to Milorad Trkulja and all of his assets and associates on the Google search blacklist. Forever.
"...past the point of what they can reasonably consume."
And that's why a lot of the "stolen" content has no actual value. If I download a book, and then never read it, have I really consumed the content or taken away a potential sale? Highly unlikely.
I will tell you this - there is nothing more frustrating that buying a digital copy of a reference, and then finding out that (a) it can't be read on one of my devices or (b) I can print or extract excerpts where they are (necessary) appropriate references or (c) I just plain can't get into them because I lost the password or I had to move the original file and the license key is no longer valid and there's nobody on the publishers end to fix it for hours or days. I bought the God damned work, I don't want to wait until you get around to letting me read it so I can get my work done.
Most of what I've bought as digital references I've either cracked, converted and stripped of DRM, or "pirated" (if you can call it pirated when I already paid full price for it). There are some I will simply pirate in the future, because it's too much work to make the product usable. Others (one of which is about $750 for the PDF) I will most likely purchase again when the next update is available (they update it every 3-5 years, I usually get every other cycle), simply because the last version was both unencrypted and fully and meticulously hyperlinked - the absolute model of how a reference should be done. The time savings using that reference is worth the money, imho, and I plan on supporting them.
If he's a manager in a white collar position or nearly any professional field (i.e. one that requires a college degree), he's probably in the top 20%, which is $90k, less than double the median household income in the US, and less than $15k over the median salary for a BS degree, and $10k LESS than the median with a professional degree.
What can they do? Fire you for not being at work. Or charge your "vacation" account instead of your "sick" account (if you haven't yet switched to a single PTO pool).
The whole idea of calling in sick is to get a free day off while not affecting your employment status or your vacation leave balance. Many old-school industries have not yet realized the value of combined PTO (i.e.: any business which hasn't considered the liability of the sick leave currently on their books).
You can just clone a corporation by cutting it into two independent pieces. Like a zombie, but eating money instead of brains. And regenerating all the missing parts instantly after cutting it in two. With the right shell structure, you can usually avoid those problems long enough to get new laws written - like waiting around for the food and ammo to run out on your human victims. With enough lawyers, corporations can just hang out until the conditions are right for consolidation of resources. And a feast of brains.
If you throw cables on the floor for any reason, or string them at random heights or intervals to please one particular person, yes - they can bring all progress to a halt.
Properly planned and distributed, however, they can take a seemingly impossible task - such as spanning a large body of water, capturing a large number of fish, jumping out of an airplane from several thousand feet up and landing safely, or climbing a very tall structure - and make it a straightforward task.
The only difference between gridlock and utility is the thought and care with which the regulations are laid.
He didn't mention he expected 8 weeks of personal leave per year, Cadillac health, and a day a week for personal projects. He's saving that for the negotiations, no doubt.