More importantly, is the power savings enough to justify the higher cost over the life of the product? If I save $30 over the life of the product, but spend $100 more, I've saved nothing.
The US Congress passed the TREAD (Transportation, Recall, Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation) Act in the wake
of the Firestone/Ford Explorer debacle. The act mandates that car makers closely track tires from the 2004 model year on, so they can be recalled if there's a problem.
It's auto manufactures who are responsible for tracking tires for recall. Michelin appears to be offering these tires to them (not the general consumer) for recall purposes. The suggestion about JiffyLube checking your tires for recall when you change your oil is, I think, what Michelin wants the car manufactures to do when you go to your dealer for service.
What happens when I replace the tires that came on the car the day after I buy it? I turn around and sell/trade those perfectly good tires to someone else. Now I get the recall notice (or maybe not), for tires I don't own, while some other guy is riding 4 ticking time bombs. Will I be held liable when he has a blowout at 70 MPH and crashes into oncoming traffic?
Having not used SMS, I don't know if this is the same thing. We use the text messaging features of our phone/pagers at work all the time for automated systems to alert us to system problems. We've had days where things come in very late, sometimes by many hours.
Unfortunately, we never negotiated an SLA with Verizon, so if their system has problems oh well, too bad.
IMHO, late messages are as bad as ones that never get delivered. How about numbers on that?
Using Cingular, my analog service was far superior to digital. With digital, I had to constantly move around my apartment to keep a conversation going. Sometimes I'd not even get a ring - I'd move the phone and "1 missed call, you have voicemail" would appear on-screen - yet the phone was within reach all evening, ringer on Loud.
It was enough to make me drop service althogether. I don't think I'll go back to Cingular when I'm ready to try a cell phone again - but that will be a long time.
I've seen code from one of our vendors with comments such as "whoever wrote this should be shot. but it was probably me. no time to fix it." He both admitted it was sketchy code and said it like that - and then we bought it.
I've been known to "talk to myself" in my comments, but I do keep it PG-rated or cleaner. Sometimes at a function exit point you'll see "all done, have a nice day".
When I was in college, we always left our dorm doors unlocked. Between 7 AM and 11 PM, anyone could walk right into the buildings. We never had people come into our rooms and steal our stuff. Does that mean we shouldn't ever lock the doors?
We had a security exposure, we didn't "patch" it - does that mean it wasn't dangerous that we left the doors open? No, it just meant we hadn't been ripped off yet.
Tell that to the people who have had their right hand (or more) amputated, have a birth defect, paralysis, or otherwise cannot use their right hand. How do you propose they operate a right-hand-only mouse?
As for "why", I wish I could answer that. But the people writing the checks want it, and no matter how it's explained to them that it's pointless and stupid, they demand it.
I've got apps where the users are, well, too stupid to know how to work a browser, and they require a Back button on the page itself.
This is the same user community I serve where my requirements say "all data must fit on an 800x600 screen without scrolling" which, after I put in the standard page header, navigation buttons on the bottom, etc., gives me eight records per page that the user has to flip through. Search for client "John Smith" in this system and you're paging through 10 or 15 screens before you get to the guy you're after. It'd be nice if they let me scale the font down a notch or two (it's set at the browser default) so I can fit 12 or 15 records, but they won't even allow that.
There are users out there, I sh!t you not, who if they don't see it screaming at them on the page, it doesn't exist. Scrollbars mean nothing, standard browser features (back button, etc.) mean nothing.
but it's not worth it. I used to try to make small changes to what they asked for because I knew they didn't think of everything and they didn't want to be questioned (or I wasn't allowed to question them), but I gave up for the most part. I find now that if I do exactly what they ask for, they get, well, exactly what they ask for, and next time they're a little more cautious and detailed about it - plus I stress less over the task at hand and I won't get in trouble for doing something "different".
I do still question things from time to time where our data integrity or security could be compromised (and then hear "oh yeah, I didn't think about that"), but that's about it.
I bought a GPS unit only a year ago. It came with a serial cable. I'm "creative" enough to find a dongle but I refuse to pay $25 for a Serial-USB adapter. Same for my old Palm Pro that I still use because I can't justify buying a new one - that's got a serial connection on the cradle.
Think about it. You could have entered hundreds or even thousands of bogus names/addresses, kept your percentage at 100%, and shielded all your customers from being entered into Radio Shack's system.
People say "if everyone gave fake information like I do, the system would be useless" but you could have actually put a dent in it by controlling the POS terminal.
And then were given a "business casual fashion show" by a local retailer. Their definition of business casual didn't match our company's, however - they say that any shirt iwth a logo isn't allowed, but I see a couple vendor-logo'd polos every day.
Often I've been in a situation where I hear "there are things other than IE?" and "I use IE, I don't care to think about anything else" from the people calling the shots as far as the specs & what will be paid for.
Then we have to go back to them with our site stats and say "are you willing to piss off X percent of users?" Luckily they wake up then. Lately, we've reversed the position - we tell them what browsers we're supporting, and why we cut off specific support for some browser versions where we do.
There are a lot of "Internet users" who don't have any concept of the Internet beyond IE, and even scarier, they're now the ones deciding how sites should be built.
It's the best place to be in the summer 'cuz it's cool, and again in the winter 'cuz it's warm.
But you shouldn't be spending a lot of time in your datacenter in the first place. If you are, wear hearing protection! That low rumble for a couple hours a day over the course of a year will do far more damage to your hearing than 2 loud rock concerts.
I've seen plenty of antannae on the sides of existing buildings, water towers, silos, and other tall structures that were already there. Great idea. Why litter the landscape with poor camoflauge when you can just tack some gear inconspicuously on the side of something that's been there 50 years?
Helps the the local economy too - if I were a farmer I'd take $500/month to rent the top edges of my silo. Found money, basically. And it's gotta be cheaper than construction, zoning changes, etc. that the phone company would have to shell out.
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More importantly, is the power savings enough to justify the higher cost over the life of the product? If I save $30 over the life of the product, but spend $100 more, I've saved nothing.
Having not used SMS, I don't know if this is the same thing. We use the text messaging features of our phone/pagers at work all the time for automated systems to alert us to system problems. We've had days where things come in very late, sometimes by many hours.
Unfortunately, we never negotiated an SLA with Verizon, so if their system has problems oh well, too bad.
IMHO, late messages are as bad as ones that never get delivered. How about numbers on that?
Using Cingular, my analog service was far superior to digital. With digital, I had to constantly move around my apartment to keep a conversation going. Sometimes I'd not even get a ring - I'd move the phone and "1 missed call, you have voicemail" would appear on-screen - yet the phone was within reach all evening, ringer on Loud.
It was enough to make me drop service althogether. I don't think I'll go back to Cingular when I'm ready to try a cell phone again - but that will be a long time.
I've seen code from one of our vendors with comments such as "whoever wrote this should be shot. but it was probably me. no time to fix it." He both admitted it was sketchy code and said it like that - and then we bought it.
I've been known to "talk to myself" in my comments, but I do keep it PG-rated or cleaner. Sometimes at a function exit point you'll see "all done, have a nice day".
There's a "Tremor" integer-only codec listed on the CODEC project page.
We had a security exposure, we didn't "patch" it - does that mean it wasn't dangerous that we left the doors open? No, it just meant we hadn't been ripped off yet.
Tell that to the people who have had their right hand (or more) amputated, have a birth defect, paralysis, or otherwise cannot use their right hand. How do you propose they operate a right-hand-only mouse?
As for "why", I wish I could answer that. But the people writing the checks want it, and no matter how it's explained to them that it's pointless and stupid, they demand it.
I've got apps where the users are, well, too stupid to know how to work a browser, and they require a Back button on the page itself.
This is the same user community I serve where my requirements say "all data must fit on an 800x600 screen without scrolling" which, after I put in the standard page header, navigation buttons on the bottom, etc., gives me eight records per page that the user has to flip through. Search for client "John Smith" in this system and you're paging through 10 or 15 screens before you get to the guy you're after. It'd be nice if they let me scale the font down a notch or two (it's set at the browser default) so I can fit 12 or 15 records, but they won't even allow that.
There are users out there, I sh!t you not, who if they don't see it screaming at them on the page, it doesn't exist. Scrollbars mean nothing, standard browser features (back button, etc.) mean nothing.
My key cadence and mouse movement vary based upon the task at hand. Wouldn't work too well there.
I've found that if you're using a site on anything but port 80, IE will choke trying to find it unless you prefix the URL with http://.
Airtime costs.
but it's not worth it. I used to try to make small changes to what they asked for because I knew they didn't think of everything and they didn't want to be questioned (or I wasn't allowed to question them), but I gave up for the most part. I find now that if I do exactly what they ask for, they get, well, exactly what they ask for, and next time they're a little more cautious and detailed about it - plus I stress less over the task at hand and I won't get in trouble for doing something "different".
I do still question things from time to time where our data integrity or security could be compromised (and then hear "oh yeah, I didn't think about that"), but that's about it.
I bought a GPS unit only a year ago. It came with a serial cable. I'm "creative" enough to find a dongle but I refuse to pay $25 for a Serial-USB adapter. Same for my old Palm Pro that I still use because I can't justify buying a new one - that's got a serial connection on the cradle.
Think about it. You could have entered hundreds or even thousands of bogus names/addresses, kept your percentage at 100%, and shielded all your customers from being entered into Radio Shack's system.
People say "if everyone gave fake information like I do, the system would be useless" but you could have actually put a dent in it by controlling the POS terminal.
That's Discover, JC Penney, and Key Bank Mastercard.
That's why the US submariner corps is volunteer-only and applicants have to pass a pretty thorough psych evaluation (last I heard).
So figure US$100 easily.
Does it come with a monogrammed shirt?
And then were given a "business casual fashion show" by a local retailer. Their definition of business casual didn't match our company's, however - they say that any shirt iwth a logo isn't allowed, but I see a couple vendor-logo'd polos every day.
Often I've been in a situation where I hear "there are things other than IE?" and "I use IE, I don't care to think about anything else" from the people calling the shots as far as the specs & what will be paid for.
Then we have to go back to them with our site stats and say "are you willing to piss off X percent of users?" Luckily they wake up then. Lately, we've reversed the position - we tell them what browsers we're supporting, and why we cut off specific support for some browser versions where we do.
There are a lot of "Internet users" who don't have any concept of the Internet beyond IE, and even scarier, they're now the ones deciding how sites should be built.
But you shouldn't be spending a lot of time in your datacenter in the first place. If you are, wear hearing protection! That low rumble for a couple hours a day over the course of a year will do far more damage to your hearing than 2 loud rock concerts.
Do folks in Bolivia get this same message on their movies? Who in Bolivia would track this cafe down?
I've seen plenty of antannae on the sides of existing buildings, water towers, silos, and other tall structures that were already there. Great idea. Why litter the landscape with poor camoflauge when you can just tack some gear inconspicuously on the side of something that's been there 50 years?
Helps the the local economy too - if I were a farmer I'd take $500/month to rent the top edges of my silo. Found money, basically. And it's gotta be cheaper than construction, zoning changes, etc. that the phone company would have to shell out.