Ah, so this explains why Silicon Valley is located in France.
Seriously, if someone wants to work crazy hours, why not let them?
I had that phase in my career, and it paid off. I'm in a different phase now. I just choose not to work after hours. If my employer didn't like that, I'd have found a better job by now. Same thing for travel - I used to travel a ton. Now I don't want to, and so I found a place to work with no travel. I'm a grownup, I can take care of myself, thank-you-very-much.
This means my next Keurig will be a Keurig-compatible machine, sans-DRM. I can't imagine anything they could possibly add to the "pods" to warrant moving way from all of the clone pods & machines. (Freshness date chips? Custom brewing settings?)
For an all-time high, you want a combination of a large number of devices, over a long period of time.
I'd say cell phones would do nicely. Probably something that runs often on all cells everywhere. Maybe something that sync's with cell towers, or handles jumping between towers.
Maybe text message handling code. How many texts are sent per day?
Hoax News isn't all that bad to me. What really grinds my gears are the Troll News sites. Start with The Onion, then make nothing but "news" posts designed to incite the demographic & political leaning of your choice. Most of them try very hard to hide that they are parody sites.
It's just evil. They are getting clicks & advertising hits by trolling people, most of whom never catch on. I don't get why making a mockery of Grandma & getting her worked up over fake posts about the pope would be a good idea...
I happen to work in the utility industry. Power for lighting both commercial and residential is low single-digit percentage. (Incidentally this is also why daylight saving time is a colossal mistake.)
The incandescent lightbulb ban is just a show. It's political theater. There are dozens of ways to save more power with more bang for the buck.
I have a stash of incandescent I bought last year. I was unhappy with the CFL options, for several reasons. I bought the incandescent bulbs so that I would have the option to keep using them until satisfactory options were available. Yes, LED bulbs are getting better and solve some of the CFL's shortcomings- I'm testing one now.
I just don't like some far away bureaucrat telling me what's best for me. I'll switch when I'm good and ready. Until them, I know what I like- and I've made sure that's an option for me.
Sorry to reply to self, but found this on the above article:
Taking into account evaporation losses from the exposed water surface and conversion losses, approximately 70% to 85% of the electrical energy used to pump the water into the elevated reservoir can be regained.The technique is currently the most cost-effective means of storing large amounts of electrical energy on an operating basis...
Is it just me, or does anyone else need a screen shot of the path in a Kerbal Space simulation? They I hear the term "slingshot" (from TFS), I imagine a multi-pass loop around earth making a gravitational slingshot out part Earth's sphere of influence.
There's an easy fix to all of this- make a version of Google glass without a camera. Make a read-only device. I want the Internet instantly accessible. That's far less intimidating that saying I want to upload everything you say and do around me.
This. There's already all kinds of incentives for companies to outsource the lowest end of the employment scale. A law like this would make it standard practice. CEO's and executives are going to get their high-end pay. If they don't, some other company that's willing to pay more will get the good talent. Plain old competition. (You can dislike it all you want- that's what's going to happen.) The only way to keep the high-end pay is to get rid of the lowest level of the org chart. It's easy, and it's been done. A lot.
If you thought outsourcing make it hard to get a first job out of college, just wait until this kicks in. You'll have to work overseas just to get enough experience to qualify for the new "entry level" job here.
If safety is a good thing, and it's a good thing for consumers to prefer safer cars, why not add a decimal point or two? If two cars are equally qualified in the minds a specific customer - and one car is 0.1 stars higher, why let that car get more sales?
Dude, let the free market drive safety higher! Just like EPA window stickers. Give the customer information. If Tesla really did rank 5.4, then let the other manufactures get some public shaming. Maybe they can respond to purchasing competition & catch up and make their cars safer.
This already exists. On the way out of work, call a restaurant on the way home. Say "I want to place an order for carry out". Many places walk it out to your car. Expensive, but adds almost no time to the commute, and no cooking.
Sounds like a good idea, but you're competing against a plain old "best before x/x/x" text. I fear that these smart labels could be too sensitive, and give a false report I expired food. Thus telling me I need to throw away perfectly good food and buy more.
There's very little incentive to NOT make them too sensitive.
You're confusing the term agnostic with atheist. An agnostic doesn't know and doesn't care about spiritual matters. For your stamp analogy, someone who doesn't collect stamps, and doesn't care about that is an agnostic. It consumes zero time and energy.
A person who seeks to "stamp out" stamp collecting, advocates banning stamp collecting in some or all areas, and eagerly belittles stamp collectors has a hobby. That's atheism. Active hostility. (Terms like, oh, say, "brain virus" apply here.)
Atheism can also be shown to be a religion, because it passes the duck test. It holds firm beliefs on areas that differentiate religions Many of athiest's religious beliefs are held by other religions (Buddhist don't believe in a god, for example)
Deities: There are none, and man is the highest being. Spiritual beings: There are none. On Afterlife: There is none, this life is all there is. Mankind: Man is inherently good (or neutral), and getting better over time. Meaning of life: Life's only purpose is the one you give it. (see also hedonism) Proselytizing: My belief is the right one, and it's good if other people can come to believe the same.
There's lots more, but I have better things to do today.
You can have your hobby, but just be honest about it.
Eh? Is there a precedent for that statement? With each new game console that comes out, there needs to be a whole ecosystem to go along with it. Name me any game platform that took off because of one good game?
In a parallel example, what would you say to "Windows Phone would have taken off if it had one really good at in the app store." ?
Put another way, how good would a game have to be for an average user to want to reformat their hard drive?
I know some extreme Atheists. Their religion has a core belief and tennent that they must convert everyone else to their religion. Any mention of faith (especially Christianity) must be jumped on with argument and ridicule. All conversations must be turned to the topic of proving science is the one true religion.
1) " for fear they could be misused in ways that violate Americans' privacy rights" The act of spying & collecting this data didn't already pass this threashold?
2) Every government agency takes the permitted rules and pushes them to the limit & a bit beyond. In no time at all, the Smallville dog catcher's dept will have access to NSA data. "Think of the children - we need to know which houses have mean dogs, and which ones have small children! For their own good!" This should be no surprise.
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Ah, so this explains why Silicon Valley is located in France.
Seriously, if someone wants to work crazy hours, why not let them?
I had that phase in my career, and it paid off. I'm in a different phase now. I just choose not to work after hours. If my employer didn't like that, I'd have found a better job by now. Same thing for travel - I used to travel a ton. Now I don't want to, and so I found a place to work with no travel. I'm a grownup, I can take care of myself, thank-you-very-much.
In other words, there's too many governemnt regulations to have new competition, therefore the solution is to add more government regulations.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the solution is to allow very small startups the ability to compete in individual buildings and small cities.
This means my next Keurig will be a Keurig-compatible machine, sans-DRM.
I can't imagine anything they could possibly add to the "pods" to warrant moving way from all of the clone pods & machines. (Freshness date chips? Custom brewing settings?)
I smell a failing business model brewing...
This.
I'd go one step further, and say that auto manufactures shouldn't even try - because they can't keep up with today's pace of change.
Just give me a dashboard touch screen that mirrors my phone/tablet/widget. Total pass-though. Then I can pick my platform & apps. Everyone wins.
During peak load, the utility ran peaker plants. This isn't unusual.
Now, running a high cost peaker for 15 hours, that's noteworthy.
For an all-time high, you want a combination of a large number of devices, over a long period of time.
I'd say cell phones would do nicely. Probably something that runs often on all cells everywhere. Maybe something that sync's with cell towers, or handles jumping between towers.
Maybe text message handling code. How many texts are sent per day?
So... more realisting simulations yield more realistic results?
I suspect there's a film at 11.
Hoax News isn't all that bad to me. What really grinds my gears are the Troll News sites. Start with The Onion, then make nothing but "news" posts designed to incite the demographic & political leaning of your choice. Most of them try very hard to hide that they are parody sites.
It's just evil. They are getting clicks & advertising hits by trolling people, most of whom never catch on. I don't get why making a mockery of Grandma & getting her worked up over fake posts about the pope would be a good idea...
I happen to work in the utility industry. Power for lighting both commercial and residential is low single-digit percentage. (Incidentally this is also why daylight saving time is a colossal mistake.)
The incandescent lightbulb ban is just a show. It's political theater. There are dozens of ways to save more power with more bang for the buck.
I have a stash of incandescent I bought last year. I was unhappy with the CFL options, for several reasons. I bought the incandescent bulbs so that I would have the option to keep using them until satisfactory options were available. Yes, LED bulbs are getting better and solve some of the CFL's shortcomings- I'm testing one now.
I just don't like some far away bureaucrat telling me what's best for me. I'll switch when I'm good and ready. Until them, I know what I like- and I've made sure that's an option for me.
Skylab 4 was the mission where te astraunuts revolted.
http://libcom.org/history/1973-skylab-4-mutiny
Sorry to reply to self, but found this on the above article:
Taking into account evaporation losses from the exposed water surface and conversion losses, approximately 70% to 85% of the electrical energy used to pump the water into the elevated reservoir can be regained.The technique is currently the most cost-effective means of storing large amounts of electrical energy on an operating basis...
Tell me again the efficiency of batteries?
This concept has already been developed & deployed at an industrial scale, for decades - only using potential energy storage (pumping water up-hill).
The fact that power is cheap at night, and expensive in the day means Pumped Storage can make (or save) a utility a whole lot of money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity
Is it just me, or does anyone else need a screen shot of the path in a Kerbal Space simulation?
They I hear the term "slingshot" (from TFS), I imagine a multi-pass loop around earth making a gravitational slingshot out part Earth's sphere of influence.
Don't want augmented reality. Want reality with google in the corner always available.
The privacy concerns are going to kill this technology in its infancy, and we'll have to wait a decade to try wearable tech again.
There's an easy fix to all of this- make a version of Google glass without a camera. Make a read-only device.
I want the Internet instantly accessible. That's far less intimidating that saying I want to upload everything you say and do around me.
This.
There's already all kinds of incentives for companies to outsource the lowest end of the employment scale. A law like this would make it standard practice.
CEO's and executives are going to get their high-end pay. If they don't, some other company that's willing to pay more will get the good talent. Plain old competition. (You can dislike it all you want- that's what's going to happen.) The only way to keep the high-end pay is to get rid of the lowest level of the org chart. It's easy, and it's been done. A lot.
If you thought outsourcing make it hard to get a first job out of college, just wait until this kicks in. You'll have to work overseas just to get enough experience to qualify for the new "entry level" job here.
Dumb idea. Really, really dumb.
If safety is a good thing, and it's a good thing for consumers to prefer safer cars, why not add a decimal point or two?
If two cars are equally qualified in the minds a specific customer - and one car is 0.1 stars higher, why let that car get more sales?
Dude, let the free market drive safety higher! Just like EPA window stickers. Give the customer information. If Tesla really did rank 5.4, then let the other manufactures get some public shaming. Maybe they can respond to purchasing competition & catch up and make their cars safer.
Oh great. Another system to enforce segregation between organic and inorganic.
When will this senseless discrimination end?
This already exists. On the way out of work, call a restaurant on the way home. Say "I want to place an order for carry out".
Many places walk it out to your car.
Expensive, but adds almost no time to the commute, and no cooking.
Sounds like a good idea, but you're competing against a plain old "best before x/x/x" text.
I fear that these smart labels could be too sensitive, and give a false report I expired food. Thus telling me I need to throw away perfectly good food and buy more.
There's very little incentive to NOT make them too sensitive.
Oh, fun. That old trope.
You're confusing the term agnostic with atheist. An agnostic doesn't know and doesn't care about spiritual matters. For your stamp analogy, someone who doesn't collect stamps, and doesn't care about that is an agnostic. It consumes zero time and energy.
A person who seeks to "stamp out" stamp collecting, advocates banning stamp collecting in some or all areas, and eagerly belittles stamp collectors has a hobby. That's atheism. Active hostility. (Terms like, oh, say, "brain virus" apply here.)
Atheism can also be shown to be a religion, because it passes the duck test. It holds firm beliefs on areas that differentiate religions Many of athiest's religious beliefs are held by other religions (Buddhist don't believe in a god, for example)
Deities: There are none, and man is the highest being.
Spiritual beings: There are none.
On Afterlife: There is none, this life is all there is.
Mankind: Man is inherently good (or neutral), and getting better over time.
Meaning of life: Life's only purpose is the one you give it. (see also hedonism)
Proselytizing: My belief is the right one, and it's good if other people can come to believe the same.
There's lots more, but I have better things to do today.
You can have your hobby, but just be honest about it.
Eh? Is there a precedent for that statement?
With each new game console that comes out, there needs to be a whole ecosystem to go along with it. Name me any game platform that took off because of one good game?
In a parallel example, what would you say to "Windows Phone would have taken off if it had one really good at in the app store." ?
Put another way, how good would a game have to be for an average user to want to reformat their hard drive?
I know some extreme Atheists. Their religion has a core belief and tennent that they must convert everyone else to their religion.
Any mention of faith (especially Christianity) must be jumped on with argument and ridicule. All conversations must be turned to the topic of proving science is the one true religion.
Yes, athiesm is a religion.
1) " for fear they could be misused in ways that violate Americans' privacy rights"
The act of spying & collecting this data didn't already pass this threashold?
2) Every government agency takes the permitted rules and pushes them to the limit & a bit beyond. In no time at all, the Smallville dog catcher's dept will have access to NSA data. "Think of the children - we need to know which houses have mean dogs, and which ones have small children! For their own good!"
This should be no surprise.