You want to be paid more money? Produce a better product.
Apparently you don't work in the field. Because management doesn't want a better product. They want it fast and they want it cheap and if we don't meet those demands then we're hit with the "There are people in [Third World Country] who'd be GLAD to do your job faster and for less money!"/
It's not likely to be a co-incidence that your samples of producers of notably bad products are also very heavily invested in just such cheap resources. Because A), they're big enough not to care if some two bit customer doesn't like their sloppy quality standards and B), the customers are more interested in Lower Prices Everyday than in quality products anyway.
"Yes and no tsunami will hit any reactors on a mountain!"
No tsunamis, but lahars, pyroclastic flows and lava are probably more dangerous to a reactor
Well, if seawater hits a nuclear plant, chances are that radioactive steam will be the result. On the other hand, if ash or molten rock envelopes one, it will probably either A) seal the radioactivity in. B) melt it apart, bringing the fuel geometry to sub-critical mass. Although it is, of course possible that the plant would simply crack open, with the same results that you'd see on earth-faulted land or with water incursion. That is, a plume of radioactive gas or steam.
Still, there's a limit to how close to an active volcano people are willing to live, so the really hot zone (in both senses) would not be as direct a threat to people or livestock.
These days, the common model is that the employee is paid a miserable wage, but would make up the rest in tips.
Sure, but WHY is that? Why is the employee's compensation not included in the cost of the service, like (say) a retail associate's in a department store?
Actually, I think that retail clerks were originally tipped as well. But I'd hazard a guess that when you're selling a lot of luxury items, having the customers pestered with a lot of tip-seeking clerks didn't project the right sort of image in the minds of the managers. If you walk into a restaurant, however, you're almost certainly going to buy something, unlike a department store where often you will not. Especially if the staff pesters you. So they set up a system where wait staff are dedicated to specific diners, allowing opportunities for tipping without making it a feeding frenzy.
Restaurants are exceedingly low-margin businesses for the most part, so they use every trick they can to give the impression of Everyday Low Prices, including not actually including the staff pay on the official price list.
So if you can't afford a lawyer, there's no law for you?:D So next time you can't afford a lawyer, don't bother fighting the case, shoot yourself? is that the logic?
In the USA, there's the "Lawyer Lottery" a/k/a, There's no fee unless you win! So step right up and spin that wheel! We'll be glad to help!
The downsides to that are that people will file shaky lawsuits as freely as they buy lottery tickets. And the lawyers can frequently get a bigger cut of the awards than the plaintiffs.
Do they do tipping in France. I'm not sure tipping as a concept really makes sense anyway. Why do I pay the restaurant for the food and separately an essentially independent contractor (can I bring my own, then...) to deliver it, and the contractor's fee is completely at my discretion after the fact?
IIRC, yes. Tipping is done in France.
Tipping comes from the Good Old Days. Back when frequently an employee had to pay an employer to work there. The employee's wages (and thus also their payments to to the business owner) consisted solely of tips. A similar scheme was apprenticing, where you frequently had to pay an employer to take on an apprentice, although in that case, the employee was presumed to eventually become skilled enough to become independent. Even the legal profession worked on one of these models back in Dicken's day.
These days, the common model is that the employee is paid a miserable wage, but would make up the rest in tips.
They won't. A single person always does, but in the real world, teaching one idiot a lesson doesn't mean that the millions of others will be telepathically notified of it.
It wouldn't matter. All the other idiots who do hear about it simply think that it doesn't apply to them.
2. A lot of people bought personal computers even though their utility was even less obvious at the time. Advertising helped.
I haven't enjoyed doing my own 3D prints yet, but I've a whole host of plastic parts that I'd either like to make replacements for (lost battery compartment covers, a broken hinge on a PC door, etc.) or would like a custom solution for, such as a case for a bedside automation control and display that's shaped for where it will be installed.
As in the case of PCs and lasers, we'll eventually know when and where to use/not use 3D printing. Making it accessible is the first step.
the same audience that purchases a $2500 Generator when the lights go out for more than 5 minutes.
Except that sale is based on calming a fear; i.e. they will be out of power for a while. What fear or need does a MB fulfill that can be articulated in a way that the person who drops 2.5k$ for a generator will see the value of a MB? Just because someone can drop several K$'s on something doesn't mean they will drop it on any item.
What can I say? What about all of us who dropped thousands on PCs back before they were practically sold in blister packs?
Just out of curiousity, what kind of parts are you talking about, where a 3D printed piece of plastic would be an acceptable replacement? In my work on my own older home, the things that are in the can't find/hard to find category are all either structural (2x4s that are actually 2 inches by 4 inches), functional (doorknobs, etc), or decorative (plaster rosettes, etc). None of those are suitably replaced with a piece of plastic, regardless of whether or not it actually 'fits'.
Plastic doorknobs, probably. Plaster rosettes, no, although you could print custom plaster moulds and get far more variety than a store would normally have in stock. Your 2x4s that actually 2x4 are a planing job and I've no doubt that HD would be happy to sell you the appropriate hardware.
One of the things that 3D printing can do for you when you need something more durable than straight plastic (for example, a door latch), is print the "public facing" component of a part that, given a suitable metal underbody would supply strength where it's needed while allowing more choices for the outside component.
Where Home Depot could probably make their own mark is in non-plastic printers for custom metal and artifical stone printing.
Cases have always been problem with the Raspberry Pi. They didn't really think about cases when they designed it. It's almost as if they just expected people to have the board sitting unprotected on the desk. I like that they actually have mounting holes now, which should help things out a lot.
Technically, the old Model B had "mounting holes". Two of them, located in places that would really only work if you augmented them via some sort of edge or insulated under-support. The Pi box I have goes strictly for edge mounting, and it really doesn't do that well, although most of the fault is in the box design.
The B+ won't fit that old box, though. Not because of the changed port locations. Because the new card is slightly larger than the old one.
I hear a Mr. Hotblack Desiato wants to buy all of it. The material and the team that invented it... He also might buy the whole solar system while he's at it.
I'm sorry, the Autarch has bought it all up for the Society of Seekers for Truth and Penitence to make fuligrin cloaks.
I've had NYC tap through clean pipes and it was the best I've had so far. Florida's aquifers will still be kicking when it starts to *really* dry up out west too.
Florida has has water restrictions for years. Orlando and Cocoa have been playing tug-of-war over water, and Orlando has also been trying to plunder the St. Johns River. Tampa Bay has a lot of water piped in, and the Sarasota is about the driest in the state.
not like the wild animals and fish don't piss and shit into our water
The concern is not piss and shit --- it's synthetic chemicals, such as rubbing alcohol, medications, petrol/motor oil, ethylene glycol; pesticides, fertilizer, and materials containing heavy metals or other toxins, that folks sometimes flush down the drain.
Some of these chemicals may be non-particulant, solvate in water, and have similar physical properties that water has.
My local water company sends out an annual quality report and I'm pretty sure that the stats they report include information on levels of most of these. And we're getting ours mostly from a deep aquifer.
If you can convert C to assembler, I don't get the point of C. If you can convert assembler to machine code, I don't get the point of assembler.
I presume you're speaking tongue-in-cheek. Modern C compilers do a lot more than "convert" C to assembler, they heavily optimise the resulting code. The first compiler I ever ran into that produced code so tightly optimized that it did a better job over an application's life than hand-coded assembler was IBM's Pascal/VS in 1986, but more recent compilers such as gcc blow the doors off even that. So the point is that if you want code that's well-optimized at the instruction level - and stays well-optimized at the instruction level, and you don't want to spend forever and huge amounts of money, use a compiler.
Likewise, assemblers, despite being mostly literal translations of human-readable code are considerably faster for most people to code for, which is why assemblers have been the preference since the 1950's. The point being again, that there is time and money to be saved.
I concur on JavaScript, though. It has all the earmarks of a successful software product. Meaning it's horrible and has aspects that cannot be credited to designers who were sane or sober.
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...they will discover Scully's tissue samples in that hidden file cabinet.
Yard Sale!
They continually invent new and creative kinds of suck.
No they don't. They just change the suck icons, names, and desktop locations with each new edition. Still the same old suck.
You want to be paid more money? Produce a better product.
Apparently you don't work in the field. Because management doesn't want a better product. They want it fast and they want it cheap and if we don't meet those demands then we're hit with the "There are people in [Third World Country] who'd be GLAD to do your job faster and for less money!"/
It's not likely to be a co-incidence that your samples of producers of notably bad products are also very heavily invested in just such cheap resources. Because A), they're big enough not to care if some two bit customer doesn't like their sloppy quality standards and B), the customers are more interested in Lower Prices Everyday than in quality products anyway.
Driverless cars ARE definitely a big threat! Think of all the unemployed henchmen who used to be drivers for criminals and terrorists!
You forgot Aetna. But I was thinking more of the zone where the "blessings" of the volcano are more immediate. Like Monserrat.
"Yes and no tsunami will hit any reactors on a mountain!"
No tsunamis, but lahars, pyroclastic flows and lava are probably more dangerous to a reactor
Well, if seawater hits a nuclear plant, chances are that radioactive steam will be the result. On the other hand, if ash or molten rock envelopes one, it will probably either A) seal the radioactivity in. B) melt it apart, bringing the fuel geometry to sub-critical mass. Although it is, of course possible that the plant would simply crack open, with the same results that you'd see on earth-faulted land or with water incursion. That is, a plume of radioactive gas or steam.
Still, there's a limit to how close to an active volcano people are willing to live, so the really hot zone (in both senses) would not be as direct a threat to people or livestock.
These days, the common model is that the employee is paid a miserable wage, but would make up the rest in tips.
Sure, but WHY is that? Why is the employee's compensation not included in the cost of the service, like (say) a retail associate's in a department store?
Actually, I think that retail clerks were originally tipped as well. But I'd hazard a guess that when you're selling a lot of luxury items, having the customers pestered with a lot of tip-seeking clerks didn't project the right sort of image in the minds of the managers. If you walk into a restaurant, however, you're almost certainly going to buy something, unlike a department store where often you will not. Especially if the staff pesters you. So they set up a system where wait staff are dedicated to specific diners, allowing opportunities for tipping without making it a feeding frenzy.
Restaurants are exceedingly low-margin businesses for the most part, so they use every trick they can to give the impression of Everyday Low Prices, including not actually including the staff pay on the official price list.
It's not like the Norse pantheon lacked some serious goddesses. What's the point in simply gender-changing the god of thunder?
And I too think we should bring back the thorn! (bring back e orn!).
So if you can't afford a lawyer, there's no law for you? :D So next time you can't afford a lawyer, don't bother fighting the case, shoot yourself? is that the logic?
In the USA, there's the "Lawyer Lottery" a/k/a, There's no fee unless you win! So step right up and spin that wheel! We'll be glad to help!
The downsides to that are that people will file shaky lawsuits as freely as they buy lottery tickets. And the lawyers can frequently get a bigger cut of the awards than the plaintiffs.
Do they do tipping in France. I'm not sure tipping as a concept really makes sense anyway. Why do I pay the restaurant for the food and separately an essentially independent contractor (can I bring my own, then...) to deliver it, and the contractor's fee is completely at my discretion after the fact?
IIRC, yes. Tipping is done in France.
Tipping comes from the Good Old Days. Back when frequently an employee had to pay an employer to work there. The employee's wages (and thus also their payments to to the business owner) consisted solely of tips. A similar scheme was apprenticing, where you frequently had to pay an employer to take on an apprentice, although in that case, the employee was presumed to eventually become skilled enough to become independent. Even the legal profession worked on one of these models back in Dicken's day.
These days, the common model is that the employee is paid a miserable wage, but would make up the rest in tips.
They won't. A single person always does, but in the real world, teaching one idiot a lesson doesn't mean that the millions of others will be telepathically notified of it.
It wouldn't matter. All the other idiots who do hear about it simply think that it doesn't apply to them.
I'm from Florida and I'll take 30.
It's like bringing matches to a gasoline refinery.
1. Radio Shack.
2. A lot of people bought personal computers even though their utility was even less obvious at the time. Advertising helped.
I haven't enjoyed doing my own 3D prints yet, but I've a whole host of plastic parts that I'd either like to make replacements for (lost battery compartment covers, a broken hinge on a PC door, etc.) or would like a custom solution for, such as a case for a bedside automation control and display that's shaped for where it will be installed.
As in the case of PCs and lasers, we'll eventually know when and where to use/not use 3D printing. Making it accessible is the first step.
the same audience that purchases a $2500 Generator when the lights go out for more than 5 minutes.
Except that sale is based on calming a fear; i.e. they will be out of power for a while. What fear or need does a MB fulfill that can be articulated in a way that the person who drops 2.5k$ for a generator will see the value of a MB? Just because someone can drop several K$'s on something doesn't mean they will drop it on any item.
What can I say? What about all of us who dropped thousands on PCs back before they were practically sold in blister packs?
Just out of curiousity, what kind of parts are you talking about, where a 3D printed piece of plastic would be an acceptable replacement? In my work on my own older home, the things that are in the can't find/hard to find category are all either structural (2x4s that are actually 2 inches by 4 inches), functional (doorknobs, etc), or decorative (plaster rosettes, etc). None of those are suitably replaced with a piece of plastic, regardless of whether or not it actually 'fits'.
Plastic doorknobs, probably. Plaster rosettes, no, although you could print custom plaster moulds and get far more variety than a store would normally have in stock. Your 2x4s that actually 2x4 are a planing job and I've no doubt that HD would be happy to sell you the appropriate hardware.
One of the things that 3D printing can do for you when you need something more durable than straight plastic (for example, a door latch), is print the "public facing" component of a part that, given a suitable metal underbody would supply strength where it's needed while allowing more choices for the outside component.
Where Home Depot could probably make their own mark is in non-plastic printers for custom metal and artifical stone printing.
But that subset, by and large, does not post here.
Try posting something about Climate Change and get back to us on that.
Cases have always been problem with the Raspberry Pi. They didn't really think about cases when they designed it. It's almost as if they just expected people to have the board sitting unprotected on the desk. I like that they actually have mounting holes now, which should help things out a lot.
Technically, the old Model B had "mounting holes". Two of them, located in places that would really only work if you augmented them via some sort of edge or insulated under-support. The Pi box I have goes strictly for edge mounting, and it really doesn't do that well, although most of the fault is in the box design.
The B+ won't fit that old box, though. Not because of the changed port locations. Because the new card is slightly larger than the old one.
I hear a Mr. Hotblack Desiato wants to buy all of it. The material and the team that invented it... He also might buy the whole solar system while he's at it.
I'm sorry, the Autarch has bought it all up for the Society of Seekers for Truth and Penitence to make fuligrin cloaks.
I've had NYC tap through clean pipes and it was the best I've had so far. Florida's aquifers will still be kicking when it starts to *really* dry up out west too.
Florida has has water restrictions for years. Orlando and Cocoa have been playing tug-of-war over water, and Orlando has also been trying to plunder the St. Johns River. Tampa Bay has a lot of water piped in, and the Sarasota is about the driest in the state.
not like the wild animals and fish don't piss and shit into our water
The concern is not piss and shit --- it's synthetic chemicals, such as rubbing alcohol, medications, petrol/motor oil, ethylene glycol; pesticides, fertilizer, and materials containing heavy metals or other toxins, that folks sometimes flush down the drain.
Some of these chemicals may be non-particulant, solvate in water, and have similar physical properties that water has.
My local water company sends out an annual quality report and I'm pretty sure that the stats they report include information on levels of most of these. And we're getting ours mostly from a deep aquifer.
I, for one, welcome our new virii overl...oh forget it, this meme is no longer funny.
Especially since the virii have been our overloads all along!
Speaking on behalf of many dead Romans, the proper plural for virus is "viruses". Latin's plural forms are much less simple than English ones.
But I'm fighting a losing pedantic battle here. The "virii" spelling went viral long ago.
And shaky-cam. So much shaky-cam that you can't even really focus on the explosions.
Centenarians leaping out of doorways ahead of supersonically-expanding balls of incinerating flames.
If you can convert C to assembler, I don't get the point of C. If you can convert assembler to machine code, I don't get the point of assembler.
I presume you're speaking tongue-in-cheek. Modern C compilers do a lot more than "convert" C to assembler, they heavily optimise the resulting code. The first compiler I ever ran into that produced code so tightly optimized that it did a better job over an application's life than hand-coded assembler was IBM's Pascal/VS in 1986, but more recent compilers such as gcc blow the doors off even that. So the point is that if you want code that's well-optimized at the instruction level - and stays well-optimized at the instruction level, and you don't want to spend forever and huge amounts of money, use a compiler.
Likewise, assemblers, despite being mostly literal translations of human-readable code are considerably faster for most people to code for, which is why assemblers have been the preference since the 1950's. The point being again, that there is time and money to be saved.
I concur on JavaScript, though. It has all the earmarks of a successful software product. Meaning it's horrible and has aspects that cannot be credited to designers who were sane or sober.
as if programming should be something any idiot off the street can do cheaply.
TFTFY. CEOs gotta have a bigger bonus after all, and you don't get that by paying staff what they're really worth.
It's simple! My little 10-year old cousin can do it! All You Have To Do Is...
There are people who write great code.
There are people who invent and design great software
There are people who promote great software and manage it.
They're not necessarily the same people.