The real criminals here are the sign makers. People who's job is written communication are either unable or unwilling to see basic, simple mistakes. None of these incorrect signs should exist.
Moral of the story: just because you're paying someone, doesn't mean they are competent at their job.
Challenger was caused the SRB's manufacturer cutting corners meaning that the O-Ring didn't function properly at low tempretures.
Minor quibble: the O-Ring performed as designed - it was just that the launch was ordered when the environment out outside of acceptable launch criteria. It was way too cold outside. The engineers who knew the system were frantically urging not to launch. Managers chose to ignore the experts and design limitations.
In instead of a small number of houses with deafening rumbles 100% of the time, you have many times more houses with deafening rumbles 10% of the time.
Brilliant! Where do I sign up for one of them houses?/s
Good gravy! Think of it this way - if you moved out of the tech bubble area into a normal place, you would effectively get a raise of $3,000/month ($36,000 / year) on housing savings alone. And have a bigger, better house. And no traffic. And cheaper cost of living on everything else you spend money on.
Conservatively, you're easily paying (losing) +45,000 / year just to say you live someplace cool. Hope it's worth it to you.
I live in the mid-west, and until a recent job change, had a shorter commute than everything in that list - plus a 3 bed house for less than the vast majority of that list. My income is on par with national averages for my job title, yet I have a vastly below average cost of living.
For the life of me, I can't fathom why anyone would want to live in a big city. Every perk I hear touted, I can beat. It's quiet, I have a yard, and I have more spending money that the saps choking on smog.
My first thought was: how the heck are you going to keep this runway clear of snow? You've gone from a single (or dual) short strip to a (pi*2mi)= 6.28 mile loop. That's a lot of runway to plow.
Then there's the long taxi time from the outside to the terminal in the center. That's a 1 mile radius taxi. Lots of wasted time.
Then there's the poor saps living around the airport. Instead of a well-defined small number of houses with noise pollution, you've spread it all over a huge area. Lots more people to complain. I doubt people want to build houses *inside* that 2 mile loop of land, so the footprint of this beast will be impractical for an airport near anything existing at all.
And if there's a consistent level of wind (from any direction), that "3 at the some time" argument goes away, and you're back to a small strip of usable runway, at least until the wind dies down.
I've got a surface for work – and I really do not like it.
It doesn't have enough CPU power to be a real laptop, the built-in keyboard is just awful, and the battery life is stunningly short.
There's some basic functionality for the laptop/tablet arena that they just don't have down yet. Half the time I try to suspend, it stays awake. Once it finally does sleep or hibernate, I have trouble waking it up about 10% of the time. There's been a few times I would pound of the keyboard and the power button – with no signs of life – and about five minutes later it would magically turn itself on after I gave up.
Hard to get excited about cool new features when you don't even have the basics down.
It appears that the Big Bang came from nothing. EVERY SIMULATION always starts from nothing whenever the simulation program starts running, Our universe has a speed limit. It is the speed of light. That is a fact, but nobody knows the reason why the speed of light is any particular speed and not arbitrarily faster or slower. EVERY SIMULATION also has a speed limit. It is the maximum rate of execution of the program. Life and the various lifeforms appeared suddenly. In EVERY SIMULATION new things come into being, where nothing like them existed before.
You clearly haven't played very many simulation games. Any decent implementation of Conway's Game of Life has an exception to all of your absolute statements, for example.
>This is an extreme view supporting communist ideology.
Close. This is a Karma philosophy, and results in the caste system. It's cool to spit on that crippled guy, he obviously did something awful - and there's nothing to be done about it.
Even if the simulation has bugs, we wouldn't know it - because there's nothing to compare to. If properly sandboxed, there is no way we could ever have evidence.
If PI being irrational is a bug, we have no way to know that. We just day "that's the way it is, and we don't know why" and move on.
It's fun to think about, but no, we're not in a simulation. And even if we were, there's no way you'll ever prove it.
You think Elon & crew aren't smart enough to put that into the contract as a clause?
Dude, it's only free if it doesn't solve the problem. These battery packs are *designed* to solve this kind of problem. Buy low, sell high - only with electricity.
It's a solution to blackouts. Of course it's going to cost money - but the question is, does this solution make economic sense? I'd wager (and so it Elon) that a big lump of batteries just might be cheaper than a new peaker power plant.
This. As a percentage, not many IT folks actually live & work on the Left coast. Might be more interesting if surveyed nationally and reported state-by-state.
And that's why grocery delivery companies have the lifespan of a mayfly. It's been tried many, many times - and only works in wealthy high-density city centers.
It's basically the same model as the bicycle courier. You can probably count on one hand the number of places where that exists in the US.
The key to making this work is dropping the cost a *lot* (like less than a tenth of current costs), and some consistently good customer service in picking the food to deliver.
Sounds like with the addition of wireless charging, lack of headphone jack, and removing the home button - they are on track to make a phone that is a totally sealed slab. Once the last remaining physical connector goes away, it would be trivial to make a waterproof, dust-proof device.
Side benefit for Apple - even harder to replace the battery.
90 minutes? That's about an hour longer than I'd have been there.
Remember that job interviews are a 2-way street - you're interviewing the company to see if you even want to work there. That lack of respect for time, lack of awareness of everyone who walked by you, and the lack of self respect in attire says you made the right call.
If everyone's measuring against index funds, and no one can beat it consistently - then why not be lazy and chose the consistent winner - a stupid, fixed index? That's zero lines of code, and I win over the long run.
Rolling on a surface is pretty energy efficient - the power requirements for flying are much, much higher. Safety & FAA regulatory issues aside, this is always going to cost a LOT more than ground transportation- for fuel costs alone.
This may end up being the rich man's tool when a limo is too slow, but a charter aircraft overkill.
...and only those 5 countries for about 90 days. I doubt Microsoft has *any* people that fit those criteria, and even if they do, a good employer can tide them over with telecommuting for the short span of time we're talking about.
Where was Microsoft's outrage back when Obama did this for 6 months to Iraq?
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The real criminals here are the sign makers. People who's job is written communication are either unable or unwilling to see basic, simple mistakes.
None of these incorrect signs should exist.
Moral of the story: just because you're paying someone, doesn't mean they are competent at their job.
Challenger was caused the SRB's manufacturer cutting corners meaning that the O-Ring didn't function properly at low tempretures.
Minor quibble: the O-Ring performed as designed - it was just that the launch was ordered when the environment out outside of acceptable launch criteria. It was way too cold outside. The engineers who knew the system were frantically urging not to launch. Managers chose to ignore the experts and design limitations.
With this huge milestone down, the next big one is Falcon Heavy - with 3 of these boosters landing for reuse.
We are on the cusp of a new age of space - prices are going to drop like crazy, and Mars just got a whole lot cheaper to reach!
Wow, so Facebook really is serious about the millennial demographic!
Seriously, do people have no shame? Freeloading used to have a stigma.
In instead of a small number of houses with deafening rumbles 100% of the time, you have many times more houses with deafening rumbles 10% of the time.
Brilliant! Where do I sign up for one of them houses? /s
>$4225/mo × 12mo/y ÷ 52w/y = $975/week.
Good gravy! Think of it this way - if you moved out of the tech bubble area into a normal place, you would effectively get a raise of $3,000/month ($36,000 / year) on housing savings alone. And have a bigger, better house. And no traffic. And cheaper cost of living on everything else you spend money on.
Conservatively, you're easily paying (losing) +45,000 / year just to say you live someplace cool. Hope it's worth it to you.
I live in the mid-west, and until a recent job change, had a shorter commute than everything in that list - plus a 3 bed house for less than the vast majority of that list. My income is on par with national averages for my job title, yet I have a vastly below average cost of living.
For the life of me, I can't fathom why anyone would want to live in a big city. Every perk I hear touted, I can beat. It's quiet, I have a yard, and I have more spending money that the saps choking on smog.
My first thought was: how the heck are you going to keep this runway clear of snow? You've gone from a single (or dual) short strip to a (pi*2mi)= 6.28 mile loop. That's a lot of runway to plow.
Then there's the long taxi time from the outside to the terminal in the center. That's a 1 mile radius taxi. Lots of wasted time.
Then there's the poor saps living around the airport. Instead of a well-defined small number of houses with noise pollution, you've spread it all over a huge area. Lots more people to complain. I doubt people want to build houses *inside* that 2 mile loop of land, so the footprint of this beast will be impractical for an airport near anything existing at all.
And if there's a consistent level of wind (from any direction), that "3 at the some time" argument goes away, and you're back to a small strip of usable runway, at least until the wind dies down.
I've got a surface for work – and I really do not like it.
It doesn't have enough CPU power to be a real laptop, the built-in keyboard is just awful, and the battery life is stunningly short.
There's some basic functionality for the laptop/tablet arena that they just don't have down yet. Half the time I try to suspend, it stays awake. Once it finally does sleep or hibernate, I have trouble waking it up about 10% of the time. There's been a few times I would pound of the keyboard and the power button – with no signs of life – and about five minutes later it would magically turn itself on after I gave up.
Hard to get excited about cool new features when you don't even have the basics down.
It appears that the Big Bang came from nothing. EVERY SIMULATION always starts from nothing whenever the simulation program starts running, Our universe has a speed limit. It is the speed of light. That is a fact, but nobody knows the reason why the speed of light is any particular speed and not arbitrarily faster or slower. EVERY SIMULATION also has a speed limit. It is the maximum rate of execution of the program. Life and the various lifeforms appeared suddenly. In EVERY SIMULATION new things come into being, where nothing like them existed before.
You clearly haven't played very many simulation games. Any decent implementation of Conway's Game of Life has an exception to all of your absolute statements, for example.
>This is an extreme view supporting communist ideology.
Close. This is a Karma philosophy, and results in the caste system.
It's cool to spit on that crippled guy, he obviously did something awful - and there's nothing to be done about it.
Even if the simulation has bugs, we wouldn't know it - because there's nothing to compare to.
If properly sandboxed, there is no way we could ever have evidence.
If PI being irrational is a bug, we have no way to know that. We just day "that's the way it is, and we don't know why" and move on.
It's fun to think about, but no, we're not in a simulation. And even if we were, there's no way you'll ever prove it.
Great shades of Tivo! Man, I miss that awesome interface...
You think Elon & crew aren't smart enough to put that into the contract as a clause?
Dude, it's only free if it doesn't solve the problem. These battery packs are *designed* to solve this kind of problem. Buy low, sell high - only with electricity.
It's a solution to blackouts. Of course it's going to cost money - but the question is, does this solution make economic sense?
I'd wager (and so it Elon) that a big lump of batteries just might be cheaper than a new peaker power plant.
This.
As a percentage, not many IT folks actually live & work on the Left coast. Might be more interesting if surveyed nationally and reported state-by-state.
And that's why grocery delivery companies have the lifespan of a mayfly. It's been tried many, many times - and only works in wealthy high-density city centers.
It's basically the same model as the bicycle courier. You can probably count on one hand the number of places where that exists in the US.
The key to making this work is dropping the cost a *lot* (like less than a tenth of current costs), and some consistently good customer service in picking the food to deliver.
Sounds like with the addition of wireless charging, lack of headphone jack, and removing the home button - they are on track to make a phone that is a totally sealed slab. Once the last remaining physical connector goes away, it would be trivial to make a waterproof, dust-proof device.
Side benefit for Apple - even harder to replace the battery.
It's abuot time they had the courage to use an existing standard on iPhones.
Still no headphone jack though - and yes, I'm still bitter.
90 minutes? That's about an hour longer than I'd have been there.
Remember that job interviews are a 2-way street - you're interviewing the company to see if you even want to work there.
That lack of respect for time, lack of awareness of everyone who walked by you, and the lack of self respect in attire says you made the right call.
+1 internets for the nerd reference
This. Even Warren Buffett says you can't beat the S&P 500 over the long run.
http://fortune.com/2016/05/11/...
If everyone's measuring against index funds, and no one can beat it consistently - then why not be lazy and chose the consistent winner - a stupid, fixed index?
That's zero lines of code, and I win over the long run.
Rolling on a surface is pretty energy efficient - the power requirements for flying are much, much higher.
Safety & FAA regulatory issues aside, this is always going to cost a LOT more than ground transportation- for fuel costs alone.
This may end up being the rich man's tool when a limo is too slow, but a charter aircraft overkill.
Cancel 5 trips over the next 90 days? For an Australian citizen? Based on a nebulous fear?
Smells fishy to me dude. I'd check your sources on that one.
...and only those 5 countries for about 90 days. I doubt Microsoft has *any* people that fit those criteria, and even if they do, a good employer can tide them over with telecommuting for the short span of time we're talking about.
Where was Microsoft's outrage back when Obama did this for 6 months to Iraq?