I can count on zero fingers the number of times I went to a fast food restaurant to interact with the folks working there. And that even counts when I had family working at one.
Interesting thing, most of the farms where I live start right on the outskirts of town and a good deal of them have large solar panel setups.
If a farm is willing to invest in solar, I don't see having an electric truck or two as being a bad secondary investment. And I guess they can take a different vehicle if needed to go to the livestock auction 90 miles up the road, though that electric truck may have more than a 180 mile range even when loaded.
Let me know when your local taco shop institutes layaway.
Most retail transactions fall under contract law, and in a contract I can require (and you agree to) almost any payment terms. If we don't agree, then no transaction takes place.
Funny you phrase it that way. Believe it or not, the cards most favored by the wealthy have very hefty annual costs.
The most prestigious credit card in the world, the AMEX Centurion Card is $7500 to open an account, has a $2500 annual fee, and requires you to spend $250k on the card per year.
That depends on if you see a qualitative difference between slowing down traffic from a specific source, like Netflix servers or giving priority (which is only ever "faster" over saturated links) to specific sources to the slight detriment of all other non-prioritized traffic.
One of those will always be to the measurable detriment of the target, the other has no target and should have minimal detriment to any particular entity.
And if it gets to the point where the network is always saturated (I.E. everything except fast-lane services are slow) then people will complain about the overall quality of the network, which they do today anyways because ISPs will never be willing to invest enough to fully satisfy demand even with strict network neutrality rules in place..
Most enterprise applications for the government have been on the "cloud" for a while now. They are typically some flavor of SharePoint and run on government owned/controlled servers, or other ERP type solutions hosted by DISA.
Is the point here that they want to host everything commercially (they do that already too, though not as much) to avoid having to have their own disaster recovery/backup solutions?
Maybe you have an old Roku? I have a Roku 4 and RokuTV at the moment and both run the Amazon Prime Video app fairly snappy. The real abominations are the new Hulu interface which is HORRID to do anything other than watch the latest episode of something. And the new style of the cable channel apps (the ones that need to be authorized with a cable account online, like HGTV) throw me into fits of rage.
Not all countries have the same professional standards. A licensed barrister in England for instance should not be able to sell their services as a lawyer in New York (maybe old York).
And "countries" confer bullshit titles all of the time. Or would you agree that Kim Jong-Il was the "World Leader of The 21st Century", as was among his official State titles.
They make most of our "stuff" while we make most of the worlds food. The US is far and away the largest exporter of food in the world, with China being around #10. If you are going to pretend that farming, packing, and shipping out what many estimate is as much as 75% of the worlds exported food doesn't contribute to CO2, well be my guest. And no I won't source what you can google in 10 seconds.
Why are they jumping? Is the cliff on fire? Is there a horde of rabid Chihuahuas chasing them? What's at the bottom of the cliff, water? I might be tempted to follow.
3 hours? What the hell. I used to overhaul broken VHS and Betamax players from the flea market and 90+ percent of the time the procedure was pull the top, replace the belt(s) (usually cheap O-ring drive belts you can buy by the bag in various sizes), hit the inside with compressed air, then swab the head with alcohol. Whole procedure took 5 minutes. Then I would go back and sell my $10 treasure for $100 the next weekend.
You should watch AVE on Youtube to a teardown of an older piece of gear built for quality. Aluminum or steel gears instead of plastic, sealed bearings, actuators made to last for 10's of millions of movements instead of 10's of thousands. Easily replaceable beefy brushes in the motors. beefy wiring on the stator that has been properly affixed, high temperature high strength plastics and resins. Cases that bolt together rather than clip.
Believe it or not there was a time when a products endurance was a high selling feature, rather than just bling or cost. You bought one to last forever and the company was happy to try and sell one to everyone, rather than sell multiple to some subset of people willing to keep rebuying the same engineered to fail crap.
He has a physics degree, which alone makes him a far cry from most MBA CEOs today, who choose among technical options they literally can't understand based on how much they like the person presenting them.
Not to go completely against the grain here, but some intelligent people actually choose to go into business and get an MBA. Many even get one after already being successful in a technical field, as they need business bonafides in order to make upper management.
I know several CSCI BSs/MAs with MBAs, and I am sure there exist some Physics PHDs with MBAs.
Hell, my Physics teacher in college was a brilliant SOB but didn't even go to college until he was 35. Spent 18 years as a manual laborer first. He would always fall back on that when we complained a test was too hard. "What, too hard? If I could learn this after picking grapes and pouring cement for 20 years you can learn it now."
I was one of the early members, had a 4 digit user number. I created this account when I couldn't remember the password or e-mail address associated with the previous one. Now I can't even remember the user name.
I did notice that I don't seem to be able to find (searching Slashdot or google) any of my earliest posts from this account.
I guess I see what point you are trying to make, I just don't think you are half as clever as you believe you are. Especially if you are comparing your programming job (I have never worked a an IT job that didn't have flexible hours) with say, a service industry job in the US.
But for the counterpart, as a software dev in the States.
I mostly work from home, and while the official target is 80 hours a pay period no one really cares (or checks) as long as you participate in the vtc/web conferences and get your work done.
If I do choose to go in to work, its about 3 miles (5k) so I can walk or ride my bike or take my car and be there in no time.
I get all Federal holidays (10 days) plus 8 hours per pay period of vacation (26 days) , 4 hours of sick (13 days). So 36 days paid vacation plus whatever sick I choose to use (If I don't use it, it carries over until I retire or change jobs, then it gets paid as cash).
And I also cannot take a gun to work and am sometimes forced to use metric.
I think you missed his point. If the investment is ours, the return should be ours. The school's return is in the form of tuition and prestige (leading towards more tuition), the students return is a valuable and marketable education, and the professor's return is continued employment and the opportunity to publish.
Obviously if it's a private university, or the work is entirely funded by non-government funds, then there is no issue with privatizing the results.
Is it racism if they aren't human? Can you be racist against skunks? If someone says "ahh hell, smells like someone ran over a skunk. They smell so disgusting." are they racist?
One of the reasons racism is bad is because it is largely based on artificial distinctions and breaks a single species into arbitrary tribes. But if you are legitimately separate species then why is it inherently bad for one to dislike the other?
Keep in mind the phrasing. It didn't say 60 charge/discharge cycles of the battery, it sais 60 120 hour charge/discharge cycles. How many times did they charge/discharge the cells in 120 hours? Even the slowest of slow charging batteries I have seen are 1/10C, so 20 hours for a full cycle. So maybe the minimum here is actually 1200 full battery cycles for 10 percent. Sounds good in that light.
Well I was on board with the "different pesticide" argument. But you mean to tell me you feel better about the fact that it wasn't the pesticide that killed people, but some unrelated manufacturing contaminate that the company mixed in?
If we can get food producers to separate plants that process peanuts and shell fish from the rest of their products, why can't we require processing of dangerous chemicals in plants separate from safe pesticides?
Catastrophic failure is typically bad for any transport moving at speed.
Did that tree just fall on the train tracks.....oops. Did a sinkhole just open up in the freeway.....oops. Did we just hit a flock of seagulls.....And I ran, I ran so far away...Err, I mean crashed and died.
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I can count on zero fingers the number of times I went to a fast food restaurant to interact with the folks working there. And that even counts when I had family working at one.
You can keep using that analogy, but it won't make it (or you) correct.
An undeclared war is still substantially similar to a declared war. A Neo-Nazi is not similar to a real Nazi.
One fought and killed allied soldiers, participated in or directly supported the abuse, exploitation, and murder of millions of people.
The other occasionally plays dress up and shouts racial slurs.
Interesting thing, most of the farms where I live start right on the outskirts of town and a good deal of them have large solar panel setups.
If a farm is willing to invest in solar, I don't see having an electric truck or two as being a bad secondary investment. And I guess they can take a different vehicle if needed to go to the livestock auction 90 miles up the road, though that electric truck may have more than a 180 mile range even when loaded.
Let me know when your local taco shop institutes layaway.
Most retail transactions fall under contract law, and in a contract I can require (and you agree to) almost any payment terms. If we don't agree, then no transaction takes place.
Funny you phrase it that way. Believe it or not, the cards most favored by the wealthy have very hefty annual costs.
The most prestigious credit card in the world, the AMEX Centurion Card is $7500 to open an account, has a $2500 annual fee, and requires you to spend $250k on the card per year.
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That depends on if you see a qualitative difference between slowing down traffic from a specific source, like Netflix servers or giving priority (which is only ever "faster" over saturated links) to specific sources to the slight detriment of all other non-prioritized traffic.
One of those will always be to the measurable detriment of the target, the other has no target and should have minimal detriment to any particular entity.
And if it gets to the point where the network is always saturated (I.E. everything except fast-lane services are slow) then people will complain about the overall quality of the network, which they do today anyways because ISPs will never be willing to invest enough to fully satisfy demand even with strict network neutrality rules in place..
Most enterprise applications for the government have been on the "cloud" for a while now. They are typically some flavor of SharePoint and run on government owned/controlled servers, or other ERP type solutions hosted by DISA.
Is the point here that they want to host everything commercially (they do that already too, though not as much) to avoid having to have their own disaster recovery/backup solutions?
Maybe you have an old Roku? I have a Roku 4 and RokuTV at the moment and both run the Amazon Prime Video app fairly snappy. The real abominations are the new Hulu interface which is HORRID to do anything other than watch the latest episode of something. And the new style of the cable channel apps (the ones that need to be authorized with a cable account online, like HGTV) throw me into fits of rage.
[...] higher nitrate for clearer picture, no pausing/stuttering.
And better taste, longer shelf life.
In Sweden.
Not all countries have the same professional standards. A licensed barrister in England for instance should not be able to sell their services as a lawyer in New York (maybe old York).
And "countries" confer bullshit titles all of the time. Or would you agree that Kim Jong-Il was the "World Leader of The 21st Century", as was among his official State titles.
They make most of our "stuff" while we make most of the worlds food. The US is far and away the largest exporter of food in the world, with China being around #10. If you are going to pretend that farming, packing, and shipping out what many estimate is as much as 75% of the worlds exported food doesn't contribute to CO2, well be my guest. And no I won't source what you can google in 10 seconds.
Why are they jumping? Is the cliff on fire? Is there a horde of rabid Chihuahuas chasing them? What's at the bottom of the cliff, water? I might be tempted to follow.
But don't you miss occasionally seeing an unspooled tape tumbleweed on the side of the highway?
3 hours? What the hell. I used to overhaul broken VHS and Betamax players from the flea market and 90+ percent of the time the procedure was pull the top, replace the belt(s) (usually cheap O-ring drive belts you can buy by the bag in various sizes), hit the inside with compressed air, then swab the head with alcohol. Whole procedure took 5 minutes. Then I would go back and sell my $10 treasure for $100 the next weekend.
I have been saying the exact same thing for months!
-Ajit
And once it is up and running he will fire all of the poor performers.....out of the airlock.
You should watch AVE on Youtube to a teardown of an older piece of gear built for quality. Aluminum or steel gears instead of plastic, sealed bearings, actuators made to last for 10's of millions of movements instead of 10's of thousands. Easily replaceable beefy brushes in the motors. beefy wiring on the stator that has been properly affixed, high temperature high strength plastics and resins. Cases that bolt together rather than clip.
Believe it or not there was a time when a products endurance was a high selling feature, rather than just bling or cost. You bought one to last forever and the company was happy to try and sell one to everyone, rather than sell multiple to some subset of people willing to keep rebuying the same engineered to fail crap.
He has a physics degree, which alone makes him a far cry from most MBA CEOs today, who choose among technical options they literally can't understand based on how much they like the person presenting them.
Not to go completely against the grain here, but some intelligent people actually choose to go into business and get an MBA. Many even get one after already being successful in a technical field, as they need business bonafides in order to make upper management.
I know several CSCI BSs/MAs with MBAs, and I am sure there exist some Physics PHDs with MBAs.
Hell, my Physics teacher in college was a brilliant SOB but didn't even go to college until he was 35. Spent 18 years as a manual laborer first. He would always fall back on that when we complained a test was too hard. "What, too hard? If I could learn this after picking grapes and pouring cement for 20 years you can learn it now."
I was one of the early members, had a 4 digit user number. I created this account when I couldn't remember the password or e-mail address associated with the previous one. Now I can't even remember the user name.
I did notice that I don't seem to be able to find (searching Slashdot or google) any of my earliest posts from this account.
I guess I see what point you are trying to make, I just don't think you are half as clever as you believe you are. Especially if you are comparing your programming job (I have never worked a an IT job that didn't have flexible hours) with say, a service industry job in the US.
But for the counterpart, as a software dev in the States.
I mostly work from home, and while the official target is 80 hours a pay period no one really cares (or checks) as long as you participate in the vtc/web conferences and get your work done.
If I do choose to go in to work, its about 3 miles (5k) so I can walk or ride my bike or take my car and be there in no time.
I get all Federal holidays (10 days) plus 8 hours per pay period of vacation (26 days) , 4 hours of sick (13 days). So 36 days paid vacation plus whatever sick I choose to use (If I don't use it, it carries over until I retire or change jobs, then it gets paid as cash).
And I also cannot take a gun to work and am sometimes forced to use metric.
I think you missed his point. If the investment is ours, the return should be ours. The school's return is in the form of tuition and prestige (leading towards more tuition), the students return is a valuable and marketable education, and the professor's return is continued employment and the opportunity to publish.
Obviously if it's a private university, or the work is entirely funded by non-government funds, then there is no issue with privatizing the results.
Is it racism if they aren't human? Can you be racist against skunks? If someone says "ahh hell, smells like someone ran over a skunk. They smell so disgusting." are they racist?
One of the reasons racism is bad is because it is largely based on artificial distinctions and breaks a single species into arbitrary tribes. But if you are legitimately separate species then why is it inherently bad for one to dislike the other?
Do wolves and sheep have to love each other?
Keep in mind the phrasing. It didn't say 60 charge/discharge cycles of the battery, it sais 60 120 hour charge/discharge cycles. How many times did they charge/discharge the cells in 120 hours? Even the slowest of slow charging batteries I have seen are 1/10C, so 20 hours for a full cycle. So maybe the minimum here is actually 1200 full battery cycles for 10 percent. Sounds good in that light.
Well I was on board with the "different pesticide" argument. But you mean to tell me you feel better about the fact that it wasn't the pesticide that killed people, but some unrelated manufacturing contaminate that the company mixed in?
If we can get food producers to separate plants that process peanuts and shell fish from the rest of their products, why can't we require processing of dangerous chemicals in plants separate from safe pesticides?
Catastrophic failure is typically bad for any transport moving at speed.
Did that tree just fall on the train tracks.....oops.
Did a sinkhole just open up in the freeway.....oops.
Did we just hit a flock of seagulls.....And I ran, I ran so far away...Err, I mean crashed and died.