SP4 (i5) docking with 2 x 4k 42" IPS monitors (Mango Wasabi)
Work time: AutoCAD Building Design Suite, Bentley/RAM Elements Play time: Reaper, CS 2016 Browser: Chrome (=email,cal,tasks in app windows)
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I love when architects (esp. mac-based) come around and drool over the monitors with space for two (nearly) full D-sized PDF prints up at the same time, plus a pen-sketch on the tablet screen. I love it more when I tell them that the tablet is running the entire setup, and I can just pop the dock connector and take all of my work into the field.
"Because that money has to come from people have earned it."
You keep using that word,"earned," as if there is some direct work-money balance which universally exists. I can pretty much guarantee you that anyone making over $500k/yr is not "earning" that money. They are reaping the rewards of investments with little or no effort beyond what the typical tradesperson is doing. That means that those people are siphoning off money from businesses and the actual workers are not getting paid as much for their time. Do you think that a CEO making $6M/yr, or an investment banker making $60M/yr, is somehow working 100-1000 times as hard as a nurse, or an electrician? Are they squeezing in 200,000 hours of productivity in a year? Of course not. And yet that's where more than half of all the money in the US goes - to those who aren't really "earning" it. But they're at the top of the food chain, rather than the bottom, so it looks like good old capitalism, aka "reward for hard work."
I agree that is IS good to earn an honest living. I would propose that people at the top who are sitting on their asses for 90-99% of their income go back to being productive, not just skimming the profits off the top.
Oh, it's easy to find the OEM battery for those phones. Just do a price sort high to low. The $50-100 per piece batteries are the real OEMs, for the most part. Then you have the recognizable third party batteries (wasabi and the like) for $8-15, and then the mystery meat versions which are maybe $2 cheaper. If you're suckered in by the third party battery at 6.97 vs a recognizable vendor/brand at 8.00, you probably get what you deserve.
Yeah, I've started leaving one-star vendor reviews "Merchandise was fine, but the nagging by the vendor to leave this review and rating was incessant. Will never buy from again." I realize that it sucks for them, but I didn't sign up for daily nag-ware.
No Prime = No Sale, and that goes double if the item is shipping from China. It's not that all things Chinese are bad or cheap or counterfeit, but if I'm going to get a very inexpensive item* I'm more likely to look at ebay or aliexpress to truly minimize my cost. Amazon has some of the worst search engine sorting options on the planet so I may as well wade through mountains of crap on the other two sites and save another 20% than deal with Amazon .
*and if you're getting something from China, you either need to make sure you can return it to somewhere in your home country or be willing to burn that cash on the front lawn, because if something goes wrong it will cost a fortune to ship back.
Should have eliminated the COO position and used the money he saved to bring back the QA department in the surface line. Having an in-house brand which is less compatible with your own OS than 3rd party devices is just criminal.
Sure they do, but this isn't even twice as fast (write) as UHS-II cards that already exist, and which are backwards compatible with (slower) interfaces. The spec for USH-II goes to 312MB/s each way - faster than the write speed of this new option, and a bit over half the sequential read. And older uSD are compatible with the UHS-II readers. https://www.sandisk.com/home/m...
The fuel penalty for a project like this would be in the double-digit percent range - possibly high double digits. That's a non-starter for pretty much every class of air travel that exists.
Indeed. You never hear of elevator deaths - even on transcontinental routes. I can't even tell you how many perfectly safe elevator rides I've taken from DC to NY over the years.
No, you'd be fired for being a dumbass, likely have your clearance stripped, possible face a fine, and - if you were an asshole about the whole thing - see time in jail waiting for a trial but the conviction would be for time served.
This is the difference between a black man being pulled over for doing 67 in a 55 (you), and the hot, blonde daughter of the state governor being pulled over for doing 67 in a 55. The justice system is far from "equal". Both equally guilty. One is probably going to get a verbal warning. One is going to spend the night in jail.
That's a pretty big difference. 1.7 Million documents vs 100. And Clinton's intent was, in fact, that the servers be both protected and private (hacking attempts and successes notwithstanding. If her intent wasn't to control the shit out of ever single email she sent or received she'd have put them on a government computer where others outside of her control would have had known access.
The reality is that she mishandled classified information - in exceedingly small amounts for someone in her position who probably touches hundreds of classified pieces of information every day. That mishandling was statutory - it did not follow the letter of the regulations which is intended to prevent accidental dissemination of the information to hostile parties. Instead, she put it on a server which was intentionally under her (nominally) complete control, with the intent of making sure that nobody every saw a single thing that she didn't approve. Given the paranoia of the woman, it was probably safer there than on the official servers.
This is the security equivalent of doing 67 in a 55. Most people are going to get a slap on the wrist, some people are going to get the book thrown at them, and some people who are connected or are good talkers are going to walk away with a warning. Snowden was doing 110 in a school zone, putting kill stickers on his windshield for every kid he hit. Some of those kids, no doubt, had it coming to them; but Snowden still didn't have the right to mow them down.
Globalism is not the cause. Manufacturing efficiency is the cause. Many "third world" countries where you used to get dirt cheap labor are starting to pay more for workers. Not American or EU rates, but the ratio has closed by an order of magnitude in the last 20 years.
What you're seeing is that goods - things - have stayed the same cost or risen only slightly, but labor costs have increase dramatically. The per-unit cost for a widget has become trivial because we can make a million widgets with basic, easy to create tooling and unskilled labor. But a doctor or a nurse, who has to be with you, personally for care; or a framer, plumber, or electrician who has to travel to your land to erect a building piece by piece; or a teacher who has to spend 6-7 hours a day teaching the same class size at 30 or 40 years ago - that's labor that hasn't been automated. There are inefficiencies, but they're nowhere near the gains seen in manufacturing. It's raised our "standard of living," as measured by all of the stuff we own compared to 50 years ago - but has brought into sharp relief all those things we haven't automated.
Yup - I was going to pay cash for a new Subaru 4 years ago. Dealer offered me 0% for 5 years, and couldn't knock anything off if I paid with a cashier's check. I put that $25k in the bank. 4 years out, I've paid $20k off, and I've still got $20k of the initial $25k in the bank. I can't even tell you how glad I am that he talked me into financing.
You forgot piece of mind. Buying a used car is no more or less valuable than buying a new car. The new car includes mechanical insurance (known more colloquially as a warranty), which is a non-trivial part of the value. Cars are expensive, complex mechanisms which are prone to break and can be subject to damage which cannot be evaluated at the time of sale. By your reasoning, nobody should every buy insurance of any kind, and short positions and futures should not exist in the financial markets.
Not that there aren't good ways to buy a used car effectively, but it carries a risk with it. For many people, the mitigation of a car which is under warranty is a valuable consideration.
Packages get bundles because it's inefficient to offer them as *factory* options a la carte. That $3300 tech package includes an integrated version of the $1700 item you linked, cruise control, GPS nav and a backup camera system. You could probably put together an equivalent bolt-on system for all of that for $2500, so asking for 25-30% markup at the retail level really doesn't seem overbearing. Upselling is one of the most common profit centers in any business. So, in a way, it is that expensive. Though once it becomes standard, the price gets rolled into the base and it's no longer a premium item. Example: if you price the components that go into a car based on the dealership parts department, you'll find that the sum of all the parts to build a car are 300-400% of the price of a new car on the lot.
As for history, I grew up in a pretty middle-income family in rural MD, and our typical new cars were a Datsun pickup and a VW Fox and Rabbit. Definitely sub-average on the price tags. That was back when air conditioning was an option (and a $1000 option at that). New cars are expensive; always have been, always will be. You buy used until you can (or are willing to) afford a new car. It's a luxury, and if you're not on the happy side of the income curve you only get a certain number of those.
There is nothing in the tablet world which is as accurate or content-dense for graphical information than pencil and paper. I say this as someone who has tried nearly all of the tablet options from the last 3-4 years, and has been sketching engineering details for two decades with pencil and paper but *wants* to switch. It's one thing to say you "can" make the same sketch on a tablet as you can on paper - and it is possible with some re-training in how you write - but it will never be as fast or efficient as pencil on paper. At $200+/hr billing rate, time to capture a thought matters. Heck - you can make a photorealistic "painting" on a capacitive iPad with just your finger - there are videos showing just that. They also take hundreds of hours to complete.
Tablets have certain, very clear advantages, but speed of graphical entry [for engineering technical drawings to be put into a CAD system] is NOT one of them. Heck, even regular, handwritten notes take longer and are sometimes less cohesive. I found I have to write about 20-25% slower and at a magnification of ~175% to get the same quality of handwriting on a modern tablet (SP4 in the case of my primary machine). And that speed is assuming that I disregard L/R scrolling so that my notes end up in a "print" or reading size of about 5" net width - just 2/3 of a normal page. Sometimes that's all I need; other times it's insufficient and the time penalty to use a letter-width page is enormous. And don't even get me started on "to scale" sketches such as floor plans. Nothing out there currently has the instant scale drawing functionality of a quadrille or (my favorite) 1/8" grid non-repro blue engineering paper.
Here's something that, I believe, both emacs and vi users can agree on: both editors royally suck at rapid notation of graphical content and searching of jpg (and image-based pdfs) for text content within.
And nobody pays $70 for a "note taking app". Evernote, up until recently, was free to upload and sync lots of content over multiple devices (with offline caching control for limited memory devices) and worked with lots of different content types - including OCR of both typed and handwritten information. When someone hands you a legal pad with 4 pages of handwritten notes it takes about 15 seconds to take a picture of all of them and they are then text searchable as part of the database with no effort on your part. Find a web page which has a lot of useful information? A two click plug in captures all/part of the page, including images, diagrams, figures, and text and can even keep the formatting intact.
That's the whole point of the article - EN is forcing people into a paid status (or a higher price) due to feature reduction. The question is if there is something which is a feature rich without the price, or feature enhanced at the same price point.
And how, exactly, do you search your hundreds of meeting sessions for that bit of information you need to reference from 3-4 years ago? (NB: if you sit on a board of directors for a non-profit you will, at some point, need to find that entry where Alice and Bob related a critical item of organizational history on which your current board dilemma turns).
Yup. These are things that, by their use, need to be fail safe rather than fail secure. And, yes, they really need to be air-gapped from the internet. But that would be inconvenient to the administrators and developers, so they prefer instead to make it inconvenient to the practitioners.
If you forget a password, someone may die right in front of you. You can choose to write that password down and reduce security, or you can take a chance that you'll forget what this month's 12 character combination of at least two upper case, two lower case, 2 numbers, and 2 non-alphanumeric characters is in a pressure situation and the result will be death or injury to a human in your care and, likely, a lawsuit and dismissal.
Until this is fixed, people are going to write down passwords.
Impossible to plug, but possible to make very, very small.
If the spec requires that the output of the DAC be on the same chip as the decoder, directly connected to the transducer, and that the output pins have a sensor to verify that the impedance on the transducer pins matches the originally installed transducer - which is burned into the microcode on the chip - you're going to have the get more and more creative to pull the signal off. Not impossible, but quite a bit more difficult.
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Well, sure, the hackers have them - but it's not like I can go and ask *them* for my password every time I want to log in somewhere.
One tablet to rule them all...
SP4 (i5) docking with 2 x 4k 42" IPS monitors (Mango Wasabi)
Work time: AutoCAD Building Design Suite, Bentley/RAM Elements
Play time: Reaper, CS 2016
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Utilities I can't live without:
Image adjustment: Irfanview
Text editor: Notepad++
PDF: Bluebeam
I love when architects (esp. mac-based) come around and drool over the monitors with space for two (nearly) full D-sized PDF prints up at the same time, plus a pen-sketch on the tablet screen. I love it more when I tell them that the tablet is running the entire setup, and I can just pop the dock connector and take all of my work into the field.
"Because that money has to come from people have earned it."
You keep using that word,"earned," as if there is some direct work-money balance which universally exists. I can pretty much guarantee you that anyone making over $500k/yr is not "earning" that money. They are reaping the rewards of investments with little or no effort beyond what the typical tradesperson is doing. That means that those people are siphoning off money from businesses and the actual workers are not getting paid as much for their time. Do you think that a CEO making $6M/yr, or an investment banker making $60M/yr, is somehow working 100-1000 times as hard as a nurse, or an electrician? Are they squeezing in 200,000 hours of productivity in a year? Of course not. And yet that's where more than half of all the money in the US goes - to those who aren't really "earning" it. But they're at the top of the food chain, rather than the bottom, so it looks like good old capitalism, aka "reward for hard work."
I agree that is IS good to earn an honest living. I would propose that people at the top who are sitting on their asses for 90-99% of their income go back to being productive, not just skimming the profits off the top.
Oh, it's easy to find the OEM battery for those phones. Just do a price sort high to low. The $50-100 per piece batteries are the real OEMs, for the most part. Then you have the recognizable third party batteries (wasabi and the like) for $8-15, and then the mystery meat versions which are maybe $2 cheaper. If you're suckered in by the third party battery at 6.97 vs a recognizable vendor/brand at 8.00, you probably get what you deserve.
Yeah, I've started leaving one-star vendor reviews "Merchandise was fine, but the nagging by the vendor to leave this review and rating was incessant. Will never buy from again." I realize that it sucks for them, but I didn't sign up for daily nag-ware.
No Prime = No Sale, and that goes double if the item is shipping from China. It's not that all things Chinese are bad or cheap or counterfeit, but if I'm going to get a very inexpensive item* I'm more likely to look at ebay or aliexpress to truly minimize my cost. Amazon has some of the worst search engine sorting options on the planet so I may as well wade through mountains of crap on the other two sites and save another 20% than deal with Amazon .
*and if you're getting something from China, you either need to make sure you can return it to somewhere in your home country or be willing to burn that cash on the front lawn, because if something goes wrong it will cost a fortune to ship back.
We have always been at war with Eurasia. In other news, chocolate rations are going up!
Should have eliminated the COO position and used the money he saved to bring back the QA department in the surface line. Having an in-house brand which is less compatible with your own OS than 3rd party devices is just criminal.
Sure they do, but this isn't even twice as fast (write) as UHS-II cards that already exist, and which are backwards compatible with (slower) interfaces. The spec for USH-II goes to 312MB/s each way - faster than the write speed of this new option, and a bit over half the sequential read. And older uSD are compatible with the UHS-II readers. https://www.sandisk.com/home/m...
Why can't we just use a universal, standard unit like X so we know how many times faster than a CD it is?
The fuel penalty for a project like this would be in the double-digit percent range - possibly high double digits. That's a non-starter for pretty much every class of air travel that exists.
Indeed. You never hear of elevator deaths - even on transcontinental routes. I can't even tell you how many perfectly safe elevator rides I've taken from DC to NY over the years.
No, you'd be fired for being a dumbass, likely have your clearance stripped, possible face a fine, and - if you were an asshole about the whole thing - see time in jail waiting for a trial but the conviction would be for time served.
This is the difference between a black man being pulled over for doing 67 in a 55 (you), and the hot, blonde daughter of the state governor being pulled over for doing 67 in a 55. The justice system is far from "equal". Both equally guilty. One is probably going to get a verbal warning. One is going to spend the night in jail.
"except for volume"
That's a pretty big difference. 1.7 Million documents vs 100. And Clinton's intent was, in fact, that the servers be both protected and private (hacking attempts and successes notwithstanding. If her intent wasn't to control the shit out of ever single email she sent or received she'd have put them on a government computer where others outside of her control would have had known access.
The reality is that she mishandled classified information - in exceedingly small amounts for someone in her position who probably touches hundreds of classified pieces of information every day. That mishandling was statutory - it did not follow the letter of the regulations which is intended to prevent accidental dissemination of the information to hostile parties. Instead, she put it on a server which was intentionally under her (nominally) complete control, with the intent of making sure that nobody every saw a single thing that she didn't approve. Given the paranoia of the woman, it was probably safer there than on the official servers.
This is the security equivalent of doing 67 in a 55. Most people are going to get a slap on the wrist, some people are going to get the book thrown at them, and some people who are connected or are good talkers are going to walk away with a warning. Snowden was doing 110 in a school zone, putting kill stickers on his windshield for every kid he hit. Some of those kids, no doubt, had it coming to them; but Snowden still didn't have the right to mow them down.
Globalism is not the cause. Manufacturing efficiency is the cause. Many "third world" countries where you used to get dirt cheap labor are starting to pay more for workers. Not American or EU rates, but the ratio has closed by an order of magnitude in the last 20 years.
What you're seeing is that goods - things - have stayed the same cost or risen only slightly, but labor costs have increase dramatically. The per-unit cost for a widget has become trivial because we can make a million widgets with basic, easy to create tooling and unskilled labor. But a doctor or a nurse, who has to be with you, personally for care; or a framer, plumber, or electrician who has to travel to your land to erect a building piece by piece; or a teacher who has to spend 6-7 hours a day teaching the same class size at 30 or 40 years ago - that's labor that hasn't been automated. There are inefficiencies, but they're nowhere near the gains seen in manufacturing. It's raised our "standard of living," as measured by all of the stuff we own compared to 50 years ago - but has brought into sharp relief all those things we haven't automated.
Yup - I was going to pay cash for a new Subaru 4 years ago. Dealer offered me 0% for 5 years, and couldn't knock anything off if I paid with a cashier's check. I put that $25k in the bank. 4 years out, I've paid $20k off, and I've still got $20k of the initial $25k in the bank. I can't even tell you how glad I am that he talked me into financing.
You forgot piece of mind. Buying a used car is no more or less valuable than buying a new car. The new car includes mechanical insurance (known more colloquially as a warranty), which is a non-trivial part of the value. Cars are expensive, complex mechanisms which are prone to break and can be subject to damage which cannot be evaluated at the time of sale. By your reasoning, nobody should every buy insurance of any kind, and short positions and futures should not exist in the financial markets.
Not that there aren't good ways to buy a used car effectively, but it carries a risk with it. For many people, the mitigation of a car which is under warranty is a valuable consideration.
Packages get bundles because it's inefficient to offer them as *factory* options a la carte. That $3300 tech package includes an integrated version of the $1700 item you linked, cruise control, GPS nav and a backup camera system. You could probably put together an equivalent bolt-on system for all of that for $2500, so asking for 25-30% markup at the retail level really doesn't seem overbearing. Upselling is one of the most common profit centers in any business. So, in a way, it is that expensive. Though once it becomes standard, the price gets rolled into the base and it's no longer a premium item. Example: if you price the components that go into a car based on the dealership parts department, you'll find that the sum of all the parts to build a car are 300-400% of the price of a new car on the lot.
As for history, I grew up in a pretty middle-income family in rural MD, and our typical new cars were a Datsun pickup and a VW Fox and Rabbit. Definitely sub-average on the price tags. That was back when air conditioning was an option (and a $1000 option at that). New cars are expensive; always have been, always will be. You buy used until you can (or are willing to) afford a new car. It's a luxury, and if you're not on the happy side of the income curve you only get a certain number of those.
There is nothing in the tablet world which is as accurate or content-dense for graphical information than pencil and paper. I say this as someone who has tried nearly all of the tablet options from the last 3-4 years, and has been sketching engineering details for two decades with pencil and paper but *wants* to switch. It's one thing to say you "can" make the same sketch on a tablet as you can on paper - and it is possible with some re-training in how you write - but it will never be as fast or efficient as pencil on paper. At $200+/hr billing rate, time to capture a thought matters. Heck - you can make a photorealistic "painting" on a capacitive iPad with just your finger - there are videos showing just that. They also take hundreds of hours to complete.
Tablets have certain, very clear advantages, but speed of graphical entry [for engineering technical drawings to be put into a CAD system] is NOT one of them. Heck, even regular, handwritten notes take longer and are sometimes less cohesive. I found I have to write about 20-25% slower and at a magnification of ~175% to get the same quality of handwriting on a modern tablet (SP4 in the case of my primary machine). And that speed is assuming that I disregard L/R scrolling so that my notes end up in a "print" or reading size of about 5" net width - just 2/3 of a normal page. Sometimes that's all I need; other times it's insufficient and the time penalty to use a letter-width page is enormous. And don't even get me started on "to scale" sketches such as floor plans. Nothing out there currently has the instant scale drawing functionality of a quadrille or (my favorite) 1/8" grid non-repro blue engineering paper.
Here's something that, I believe, both emacs and vi users can agree on: both editors royally suck at rapid notation of graphical content and searching of jpg (and image-based pdfs) for text content within.
And nobody pays $70 for a "note taking app". Evernote, up until recently, was free to upload and sync lots of content over multiple devices (with offline caching control for limited memory devices) and worked with lots of different content types - including OCR of both typed and handwritten information. When someone hands you a legal pad with 4 pages of handwritten notes it takes about 15 seconds to take a picture of all of them and they are then text searchable as part of the database with no effort on your part. Find a web page which has a lot of useful information? A two click plug in captures all/part of the page, including images, diagrams, figures, and text and can even keep the formatting intact.
That's the whole point of the article - EN is forcing people into a paid status (or a higher price) due to feature reduction. The question is if there is something which is a feature rich without the price, or feature enhanced at the same price point.
And how, exactly, do you search your hundreds of meeting sessions for that bit of information you need to reference from 3-4 years ago? (NB: if you sit on a board of directors for a non-profit you will, at some point, need to find that entry where Alice and Bob related a critical item of organizational history on which your current board dilemma turns).
Yup. These are things that, by their use, need to be fail safe rather than fail secure. And, yes, they really need to be air-gapped from the internet. But that would be inconvenient to the administrators and developers, so they prefer instead to make it inconvenient to the practitioners.
If you forget a password, someone may die right in front of you. You can choose to write that password down and reduce security, or you can take a chance that you'll forget what this month's 12 character combination of at least two upper case, two lower case, 2 numbers, and 2 non-alphanumeric characters is in a pressure situation and the result will be death or injury to a human in your care and, likely, a lawsuit and dismissal.
Until this is fixed, people are going to write down passwords.
Ahh, would modern vehicles weigh a mere three-quarters ton. Try closer to 3 tons. And that's before she gets into the car!
Impossible to plug, but possible to make very, very small.
If the spec requires that the output of the DAC be on the same chip as the decoder, directly connected to the transducer, and that the output pins have a sensor to verify that the impedance on the transducer pins matches the originally installed transducer - which is burned into the microcode on the chip - you're going to have the get more and more creative to pull the signal off. Not impossible, but quite a bit more difficult.