You miss the point of a fast charge station. If I were a Tesla owner I might be a bit pissed if every time I went to fill all of the stations were tied up with Bolt owners taking 2 hours to charge.
But...The post office absolutely does charge you differently based on what you are sending, how fast, and to where. And the phone company does charge you based on where you are calling, and often whom.
I don't think ISPs should follow, buy your examples are the polar opposite of making your point.
Everyone keeps mentioning Costco's corporate structure, or how they pay their employees. I took the comment to be more of a reference to Kirkland products. Good products sold for a reasonable price that are relying on their value rather than a name to make them attractive.
With 40 years experience, an extensive resume, 100's of successful projects, I'm still treated like I graduated yesterday and am "tested" on what I know. It's insulting and companies need to stop.
Funny, I have literally half that resume (20 years of successful projects) and I never get "tested" for interviews. Every interview I have is along the lines of "So Hodr, we heard about you from X who said you were a key player in the success of project Y. Let me tell you about all the wonderful benefits of working for us here at Z Corp."
I know it's fun (and easy) to bash Trump, but he does pay taxes. He pays sales taxes, real estate taxes (more than any of us ever will), gas taxes, etc. etc., he just doesn't pay income tax because apparently his taxable income on his businesses is less than the amount of money he has previously lost in those businesses, so when averaged he has not made a profit for which to tax. Doesn't say much for his business acumen, but it's not dishonest.
But with eminent domain they paid you fair value (or their idea thereof), which can be determined because people buy and sell comparable property all the time. They also have to have appropriated funds for a specific task that requires purchasing that property. If you have a patent, it is supposed to be unique, so it would be hard for the government to accurately set a price and even if they could, assuming the technology / medicine/ whatever is as important as you believe it to be, the cost would be astronomical. Could the USDA or whichever organization afford to pay $10B per drug patent for every lifesaving medicine? If not, which ones do they choose?
I guess it's all in who you know, and what their job is. A coworker of mine recently (well 6 months ago) left to work for Amazon. Got almost a 50% bump in his already exorbitant salary and every time we talk he can't stop gushing about how great his new office is and how amazing the benefits/hours/etc. are.
WTF? If there is any single area where "Americans" excel, it's business. Not the most enthusiastic laborers, the most vibrant artists, the most ingenious scientists, nor the most precise engineers. But they are fucking good at business.
Just last month a massive avalanche killed loads of innocent people - and that one has been fairly conclusively linked to climate change. Such events will only get more common as glaciers melt.
Patently false. Once the glaciers have melted and there is no more snow accumulation, avalanche frequency will severely decrease.
You miss the primary advantage. I can grind away for 20 years in the Bay Area (1/2 way there already) and RETIRE AT 45 to live like a king in your area.
H1B? You mean the VISA program for VISITORS? H1B is not an immigration program, and if you believe it is then you are part of the problem and are supporting abuse of the program.
I get you're trying to make a point, but you are likely incorrect. When was the last time you saw a single crime ever get only one charge? They usually have half a dozen charges in order to force you to plea.
It's actually somewhat more telling that despite all the relentless scrutiny, investigating, and endless parade of hearings, over 24 years now, there still has yet to be a single indictment or criminal charge against her. Either she's the canniest most effective schemer ever (yet simultaneously incompetent enough for all the rest of these minor screwups), or there's really not a lot to any of it.
You find it telling that someone who is married to a former president, who has friends in places of power in the government and private sector, who is incredibly wealthy, and who has maintained high profile political positions for decades doesn't get an indictment or criminal charge?
You must believe Putin is a stand up guy too. Right?
It's probably much simpler than that. Right now, if they have a conflict with someone else over a domain name, they have to sue in a US court to seize it. If it's an international body partially run by large IT corporations, I have to imagine the rules might change a bit from first come first served.
Is it really that onerous to stick it back in the box they shipped it in, slap the label on, and drop it off at the UPS store (or other mailbox store)? If so, you can even schedule UPS to pick it up. Even on a Saturday if you are too busy during the week.
Seems you should know what the issue is, but by your advice to remove trickle charging we can see that you do not (these are not open cell lead acid batteries that constantly gas electrolyte). Current battery technologies share a common characteristic that the higher their charge, the more internal resistance they have. Similarly, they breakdown through cycling of extreme temperatures.
The most optimal charge method (the one that produces both the greatest amount of charge per cycle and allows for the greatest number of cycles) begins with checking the cell voltage, the resistance, and the temperature to determine roughly the charge level. If the cell is undercharged a higher current can be applied, but typically no higher than c/10 for a very depleted cell. As the resistance raises (or the cell temperature) the current needs to be reduced, eventually to ~ c/20 (your trickle charge). Trickle charge is not just a small amount of current, it is specifically an amount small enough that it does not raise a fully charged cell's temperature enough to cause any thermal breakdown, but still provides a charge. Increasing the bulk charge rate (even to c/5) will not do terrible damage, but it will reduce the life of the battery (maybe you get 600 charges, instead of 1000, etc.).
So what's the issue here? Speed. A charge rate of c/10 takes 10 hours to charge, c/20 takes 20 hours, and so on. So a completely drained phone might take 15 hours to charge completely safely to 100%.
Instead the phone manufacturers find a temperature that doesn't cause immediate catastrophic damage, identify a constant charge rate that shouldn't pop this limit, and charge you to ~85% or so, then back off slightly for the last 15%. All this, so you can charge your phone in a couple of hours (or minutes with SUPER DUPER FAST CHARGING), but you are doing much more damage to your battery.
My grandmother used to say "Betty Crocker didn't spend a million dollars developing a cake mix that makes shit cakes". I think her point was that it's easy and good enough, so why bother doing it "from scratch".
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You miss the point of a fast charge station. If I were a Tesla owner I might be a bit pissed if every time I went to fill all of the stations were tied up with Bolt owners taking 2 hours to charge.
But...The post office absolutely does charge you differently based on what you are sending, how fast, and to where. And the phone company does charge you based on where you are calling, and often whom.
I don't think ISPs should follow, buy your examples are the polar opposite of making your point.
Everyone keeps mentioning Costco's corporate structure, or how they pay their employees. I took the comment to be more of a reference to Kirkland products. Good products sold for a reasonable price that are relying on their value rather than a name to make them attractive.
He sure as shit isn't generating 45kw for "tens of thousands"
With 40 years experience, an extensive resume, 100's of successful projects, I'm still treated like I graduated yesterday and am "tested" on what I know. It's insulting and companies need to stop.
Funny, I have literally half that resume (20 years of successful projects) and I never get "tested" for interviews. Every interview I have is along the lines of "So Hodr, we heard about you from X who said you were a key player in the success of project Y. Let me tell you about all the wonderful benefits of working for us here at Z Corp."
I know it's fun (and easy) to bash Trump, but he does pay taxes.
He pays sales taxes, real estate taxes (more than any of us ever will), gas taxes, etc. etc., he just doesn't pay income tax because apparently his taxable income on his businesses is less than the amount of money he has previously lost in those businesses, so when averaged he has not made a profit for which to tax. Doesn't say much for his business acumen, but it's not dishonest.
But with eminent domain they paid you fair value (or their idea thereof), which can be determined because people buy and sell comparable property all the time. They also have to have appropriated funds for a specific task that requires purchasing that property. If you have a patent, it is supposed to be unique, so it would be hard for the government to accurately set a price and even if they could, assuming the technology / medicine/ whatever is as important as you believe it to be, the cost would be astronomical. Could the USDA or whichever organization afford to pay $10B per drug patent for every lifesaving medicine? If not, which ones do they choose?
You must be new here.
I guess it's all in who you know, and what their job is. A coworker of mine recently (well 6 months ago) left to work for Amazon. Got almost a 50% bump in his already exorbitant salary and every time we talk he can't stop gushing about how great his new office is and how amazing the benefits/hours/etc. are.
You were trying to find a college educated programmer to work in NYC for 45k/yr and had no luck? I think I found your problem.
So is that why everything left overcompensates in the killing humans department?
WTF? If there is any single area where "Americans" excel, it's business. Not the most enthusiastic laborers, the most vibrant artists, the most ingenious scientists, nor the most precise engineers. But they are fucking good at business.
Just last month a massive avalanche killed loads of innocent people - and that one has been fairly conclusively linked to climate change. Such events will only get more common as glaciers melt.
Patently false. Once the glaciers have melted and there is no more snow accumulation, avalanche frequency will severely decrease.
You miss the primary advantage. I can grind away for 20 years in the Bay Area (1/2 way there already) and RETIRE AT 45 to live like a king in your area.
I would like to subscribe to your angry tv tech newsletter.
H1B? You mean the VISA program for VISITORS? H1B is not an immigration program, and if you believe it is then you are part of the problem and are supporting abuse of the program.
I get you're trying to make a point, but you are likely incorrect. When was the last time you saw a single crime ever get only one charge? They usually have half a dozen charges in order to force you to plea.
It's actually somewhat more telling that despite all the relentless scrutiny, investigating, and endless parade of hearings, over 24 years now, there still has yet to be a single indictment or criminal charge against her. Either she's the canniest most effective schemer ever (yet simultaneously incompetent enough for all the rest of these minor screwups), or there's really not a lot to any of it.
You find it telling that someone who is married to a former president, who has friends in places of power in the government and private sector, who is incredibly wealthy, and who has maintained high profile political positions for decades doesn't get an indictment or criminal charge?
You must believe Putin is a stand up guy too. Right?
It's probably much simpler than that. Right now, if they have a conflict with someone else over a domain name, they have to sue in a US court to seize it. If it's an international body partially run by large IT corporations, I have to imagine the rules might change a bit from first come first served.
Is it too late to say sorry?
Is it really that onerous to stick it back in the box they shipped it in, slap the label on, and drop it off at the UPS store (or other mailbox store)? If so, you can even schedule UPS to pick it up. Even on a Saturday if you are too busy during the week.
Seems you should know what the issue is, but by your advice to remove trickle charging we can see that you do not (these are not open cell lead acid batteries that constantly gas electrolyte). Current battery technologies share a common characteristic that the higher their charge, the more internal resistance they have. Similarly, they breakdown through cycling of extreme temperatures.
The most optimal charge method (the one that produces both the greatest amount of charge per cycle and allows for the greatest number of cycles) begins with checking the cell voltage, the resistance, and the temperature to determine roughly the charge level. If the cell is undercharged a higher current can be applied, but typically no higher than c/10 for a very depleted cell. As the resistance raises (or the cell temperature) the current needs to be reduced, eventually to ~ c/20 (your trickle charge). Trickle charge is not just a small amount of current, it is specifically an amount small enough that it does not raise a fully charged cell's temperature enough to cause any thermal breakdown, but still provides a charge. Increasing the bulk charge rate (even to c/5) will not do terrible damage, but it will reduce the life of the battery (maybe you get 600 charges, instead of 1000, etc.).
So what's the issue here? Speed. A charge rate of c/10 takes 10 hours to charge, c/20 takes 20 hours, and so on. So a completely drained phone might take 15 hours to charge completely safely to 100%.
Instead the phone manufacturers find a temperature that doesn't cause immediate catastrophic damage, identify a constant charge rate that shouldn't pop this limit, and charge you to ~85% or so, then back off slightly for the last 15%. All this, so you can charge your phone in a couple of hours (or minutes with SUPER DUPER FAST CHARGING), but you are doing much more damage to your battery.
My grandmother used to say "Betty Crocker didn't spend a million dollars developing a cake mix that makes shit cakes". I think her point was that it's easy and good enough, so why bother doing it "from scratch".
Quit talking sense man. Someone else might possibly get paid more money for doing less work if we go Union. My ego cant support that.
Some of us have highspeed internet, but no over the air channels within SEVERAL hundred miles.