This has been happening for a while. Instead of the much anticipated 10 hour work week, we find that 40-50 hours is still the norm, but we need fewer people. With healthcare costs a significant fraction of the ongoing cost of an employee, along with training and other per-employee costs, it makes sense to maximize useful hours per employee rather than increase the number of employees to match the work needed. And with each increase in productivity, the average/minimum skill level to be productive increases. It's increasing orders of magnitude faster than humans evolve.
We didn't need 7 billion people on this planet. We won't need 8 billion. Things are going to get interesting.
In my last small office, I just yelled down the hall, or walked over. Still, clients like to talk to people, and engineers need to call out at times, so we had phones.
I'll be honest, I missed the "at" in the first line, too, so I recommended a COTS system for PBX. It's not worth the headaches unless you really have to be custom. And, if he was hired as a pbx roll-your-own guru and is asking here, he's already fucked.
I do agree that more basic info is needed. Small = 8 people or 50? Phone loads? Email volume? Really, until you top 10-20 seats, farming everything out is going to be cheaper.
If you have less than a dozen or so, consider a cheap, closed source, COTS system, like TalkSwitch. It will take you 2 hours to set it up, and you'll spend 2-4 hours a year (yes, a year) managing it. Yes, it's limited, but for $200 a user you can have a real pbx system with no fuss, no muss, and no monthly fees (except the actual phone lines). As a bonus, it can also forward calls to your remote workers.
If you have enough business to have employees, you have enough work that spending nights and weekends chasing an open source system for phone service is NOT WORTH YOUR TIME. Really. When you grow out of your mini-pbx, you'll have the money to buy something real, or hire a full timer who knows how to set this stuff up properly, and to fix it when it breaks.
I think my talkswitch was $800 used and was one of the most efficient purchases I made.
Why would you classify a rocket engine in horsepower? Thrust is really what you're after, though even peak thrust is a bit of a useless measure. An overall or maximum total impulse would have been a nice touch. Bonus if they'd use a standard, like N-s, as their unit.
Maybe I'll try it again. I don't watch much TV, but (or maybe as a result) I expect a decent payoff, and it just wasn't compelling (enough) for the time spent. Maybe if I get a TV in the shop this winter I'll have more time to waste while I do other mindless hobby tasks.:-)
When you're the president of the United States, you get a bit of a pass on fashion. Basic, functional, professional is going to be enough when you know the launch codes.
and use the money to build something you really want. Has nobody here gotten useless (to you) tech from a relative for your birthday? Stick those puppies on ebay and go get some real space science stuff.
I suspect if you check the lease he signed, there is a clause allowing them to terminate the lease at any time at their convenience. If he didn't want that clause, he should have negotiated it out. Simple business practice - capitalism and free market at it's heart. The lessor decided that his business was served by not serving this person. Done. I'd think all the libertarians would be happy about this.
There's only a reasonable suit against the mfr if the mfr did a poor job of writing up the lease. Almost all of the leased equipment I used to have had a clause that let the lessor terminate the lease for any reason, with the balance of payments forfeited, etc, etc, no claims for i/c damage, loss of business, etc.etc. for about a page and a half.
The US is different than Canada. The most you'll need is a driver's license - mostly for age verification - and you can pick up ammo at any local sporting goods store. I can drop by a hunting store and get 25lbs of black powder with just a drivers license (though they record who you are in that case).
No, of course one does not need a 3D printer to make a gun. Then again, you don't need a high end color printer to print currency - you can make far better bills by carving your own dies and using a press. Thing is - with the internet you can get a high resolution scan of a bill and print it on nice paper with a good laser printer, and expend almost no physical or mental effort to do so. Ditto with making copies of commercial Blu-Ray discs. You can play back the video and capture it in digital or analog with high speed, specialty hardware, save it to a file, convert it and recompress it, build all the menus and logic from screen captures, and have a copy for your car. Or you can go outside the US and get a program like SlySoft's ripper and it just decodes the whole thing, read to burn with a BD-R drive. It's the same with 3D guns and printers. You can make a far better gun with proper shop tools and experience, but it would be a lot easier to download the printer files and have your machine print them out, ready to assemble and fire.
FWIW, one of my friends back in HS (mid 80s) got a job doing some with with a company using Sun(?) workstations. We were both amazed that on such a power workstation, they would display an analog clock.
I stand corrected. I was going to claim that the morning coffee had worn off, resulting in my error, and then I realized that the reference to Ep. 1, which I have spent the last several years trying intentionally to block out.
Don't throw me in that briar patch! One plane with a high intensity radiation source against 100 semi-autonomous drones, 10% of which are armed with an anti-radiation missile. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
I remember some health class back in first or second grade where they told us (when talking about ear health and cleaning - q-tips and such) never to put anything sharper than your elbow into your ear. That would have made it sometime in the mid-70s. I thought it was a rather odd statelement back then, and it's still odd today.
I could do without the random pictures and uploading to a rogue site, but I would like to ask that the part where it silences the fake shutter sound be released into the wild, and we all agree not to fix it. My I also request that this no-fake-sounds malware be extended to touch keyboards as well?
You obviously missed the part where the party out of power is actively trying to thwart the party in power in order to try and take over in the next cycle. Whoever is out of power will lie - whether with numbers or without - to dissuade the public of the President's points. And since most of what they do is not grounded in fact or certainty (Was Keyens right? Does trickle-down work?) - there is no algebraic, closed form solution tot he problems they face. And to top it all off, there are 24 hours "news" outlets on both sides actively lobbying for or against them.
IMHO, both parties have compeltely whiffed on their agendas when they had full or nearly full control. And often, when they do they put in place really bad ideas (deregulation of S&Ls in the 80s which ended badly, and then of the financial industry in the 90s and 00s which ended badly - the latter a fully bipartisan fuckup). When Obama took office, he expected shit to get done, and delgated some of it to people who should have been responsible. Instead, the Democratic congress pissed away the leverage they had. That is the biggest shortcoming of Obama - he delegates and expects things to be done correctly, forgetting that congress are not a bunch of hand-picked staffers in his senatorial office with a common mind, but rather a bunch of glad-handing pretty faces who have pandered to their local electorate all their lives. He's a smart guy who forgets that there are alot of people who don't see the big picture. GW Bush was just the opposite - a smiling face and a one-track man who kept his contacts fresh and focused on tasks, letting lots of things fall by the wayside in order to make sure his point of focus was matched. As a result, he missed most of the signs of the impending crash - or simply ignored them in favor of his personal priorities.
This is, by the way, how a $90M aircraft quickly grows to be a $190M aircraft. It's not one thing that sends a project over budget, it's a series of cascading events each with a minor impact on the design which causes over-runs. It may very well be that this was a good idea overlooked, but there are literally thousands of these good ideas in a product cycle like a modern aircraft.
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This has been happening for a while. Instead of the much anticipated 10 hour work week, we find that 40-50 hours is still the norm, but we need fewer people. With healthcare costs a significant fraction of the ongoing cost of an employee, along with training and other per-employee costs, it makes sense to maximize useful hours per employee rather than increase the number of employees to match the work needed. And with each increase in productivity, the average/minimum skill level to be productive increases. It's increasing orders of magnitude faster than humans evolve.
We didn't need 7 billion people on this planet. We won't need 8 billion. Things are going to get interesting.
In my last small office, I just yelled down the hall, or walked over. Still, clients like to talk to people, and engineers need to call out at times, so we had phones.
I'll be honest, I missed the "at" in the first line, too, so I recommended a COTS system for PBX. It's not worth the headaches unless you really have to be custom. And, if he was hired as a pbx roll-your-own guru and is asking here, he's already fucked.
I do agree that more basic info is needed. Small = 8 people or 50? Phone loads? Email volume? Really, until you top 10-20 seats, farming everything out is going to be cheaper.
If you have less than a dozen or so, consider a cheap, closed source, COTS system, like TalkSwitch. It will take you 2 hours to set it up, and you'll spend 2-4 hours a year (yes, a year) managing it. Yes, it's limited, but for $200 a user you can have a real pbx system with no fuss, no muss, and no monthly fees (except the actual phone lines). As a bonus, it can also forward calls to your remote workers.
If you have enough business to have employees, you have enough work that spending nights and weekends chasing an open source system for phone service is NOT WORTH YOUR TIME. Really. When you grow out of your mini-pbx, you'll have the money to buy something real, or hire a full timer who knows how to set this stuff up properly, and to fix it when it breaks.
I think my talkswitch was $800 used and was one of the most efficient purchases I made.
Why would you classify a rocket engine in horsepower? Thrust is really what you're after, though even peak thrust is a bit of a useless measure. An overall or maximum total impulse would have been a nice touch. Bonus if they'd use a standard, like N-s, as their unit.
Maybe I'll try it again. I don't watch much TV, but (or maybe as a result) I expect a decent payoff, and it just wasn't compelling (enough) for the time spent. Maybe if I get a TV in the shop this winter I'll have more time to waste while I do other mindless hobby tasks. :-)
What do you have against carbonation?
...warheads.
When you're the president of the United States, you get a bit of a pass on fashion. Basic, functional, professional is going to be enough when you know the launch codes.
I made it through about 6-8 shows before giving up on it. Maybe it got better? Not sure, but the cat annoyed me enough to not want to watch any more.
and use the money to build something you really want. Has nobody here gotten useless (to you) tech from a relative for your birthday? Stick those puppies on ebay and go get some real space science stuff.
I suspect if you check the lease he signed, there is a clause allowing them to terminate the lease at any time at their convenience. If he didn't want that clause, he should have negotiated it out. Simple business practice - capitalism and free market at it's heart. The lessor decided that his business was served by not serving this person. Done. I'd think all the libertarians would be happy about this.
There's only a reasonable suit against the mfr if the mfr did a poor job of writing up the lease. Almost all of the leased equipment I used to have had a clause that let the lessor terminate the lease for any reason, with the balance of payments forfeited, etc, etc, no claims for i/c damage, loss of business, etc.etc. for about a page and a half.
The US is different than Canada. The most you'll need is a driver's license - mostly for age verification - and you can pick up ammo at any local sporting goods store. I can drop by a hunting store and get 25lbs of black powder with just a drivers license (though they record who you are in that case).
No, of course one does not need a 3D printer to make a gun. Then again, you don't need a high end color printer to print currency - you can make far better bills by carving your own dies and using a press. Thing is - with the internet you can get a high resolution scan of a bill and print it on nice paper with a good laser printer, and expend almost no physical or mental effort to do so. Ditto with making copies of commercial Blu-Ray discs. You can play back the video and capture it in digital or analog with high speed, specialty hardware, save it to a file, convert it and recompress it, build all the menus and logic from screen captures, and have a copy for your car. Or you can go outside the US and get a program like SlySoft's ripper and it just decodes the whole thing, read to burn with a BD-R drive. It's the same with 3D guns and printers. You can make a far better gun with proper shop tools and experience, but it would be a lot easier to download the printer files and have your machine print them out, ready to assemble and fire.
It's about ease of access.
FWIW, one of my friends back in HS (mid 80s) got a job doing some with with a company using Sun(?) workstations. We were both amazed that on such a power workstation, they would display an analog clock.
I stand corrected. I was going to claim that the morning coffee had worn off, resulting in my error, and then I realized that the reference to Ep. 1, which I have spent the last several years trying intentionally to block out.
Don't throw me in that briar patch! One plane with a high intensity radiation source against 100 semi-autonomous drones, 10% of which are armed with an anti-radiation missile. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
That's what they make ARMs for. That way the drones don't even need to be accurate: your target paints a bullseye on himself.
80cm? Are you planning to have to send a synthetic to the other side of the complex with a laptop to pilot the ship in?
I remember some health class back in first or second grade where they told us (when talking about ear health and cleaning - q-tips and such) never to put anything sharper than your elbow into your ear. That would have made it sometime in the mid-70s. I thought it was a rather odd statelement back then, and it's still odd today.
I could do without the random pictures and uploading to a rogue site, but I would like to ask that the part where it silences the fake shutter sound be released into the wild, and we all agree not to fix it. My I also request that this no-fake-sounds malware be extended to touch keyboards as well?
You obviously missed the part where the party out of power is actively trying to thwart the party in power in order to try and take over in the next cycle. Whoever is out of power will lie - whether with numbers or without - to dissuade the public of the President's points. And since most of what they do is not grounded in fact or certainty (Was Keyens right? Does trickle-down work?) - there is no algebraic, closed form solution tot he problems they face. And to top it all off, there are 24 hours "news" outlets on both sides actively lobbying for or against them.
IMHO, both parties have compeltely whiffed on their agendas when they had full or nearly full control. And often, when they do they put in place really bad ideas (deregulation of S&Ls in the 80s which ended badly, and then of the financial industry in the 90s and 00s which ended badly - the latter a fully bipartisan fuckup). When Obama took office, he expected shit to get done, and delgated some of it to people who should have been responsible. Instead, the Democratic congress pissed away the leverage they had. That is the biggest shortcoming of Obama - he delegates and expects things to be done correctly, forgetting that congress are not a bunch of hand-picked staffers in his senatorial office with a common mind, but rather a bunch of glad-handing pretty faces who have pandered to their local electorate all their lives. He's a smart guy who forgets that there are alot of people who don't see the big picture. GW Bush was just the opposite - a smiling face and a one-track man who kept his contacts fresh and focused on tasks, letting lots of things fall by the wayside in order to make sure his point of focus was matched. As a result, he missed most of the signs of the impending crash - or simply ignored them in favor of his personal priorities.
True, but then you'd have to get through 100 drones per attacking aircraft, wouldn't you!
(And who puts control of a fleet like that under a single command location. I mean, except for the Empire.)
This is, by the way, how a $90M aircraft quickly grows to be a $190M aircraft. It's not one thing that sends a project over budget, it's a series of cascading events each with a minor impact on the design which causes over-runs. It may very well be that this was a good idea overlooked, but there are literally thousands of these good ideas in a product cycle like a modern aircraft.