Based on having gone through the firefighter training courses numerous times for my job, talking with the guy who wrote the textbook on firefighting, and generally being around a firefighting school, this article sounds bunk to me. Heck, even the non-firefighter classes for IT security people cover the important risks of halon and some other firefighting materials.
It's claimed that "they" don't know what's in the foam. May be "they", the people who wrote the article, don't know, but I'm pretty sure our instructors know exactly what it is. I was talking to one of the instructors about trying to come up with a "poor man's" sprinkler system you could put it the kitchen or other high-risk areas and it sounds to me like he knows what the different systems use.
Sometimes some management forgets that employees are stakeholders just like the people who have invested their savings are. In this case, IBM has had 11 consecutive quarters (three years) of falling sales. If they don't take decisive action to turn things around, the company will be gone and everyone will be out of a job. They haven't been able to keep brining in the money selling the old products and services, cloud services are keeping them alive for now but Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple dominate cloud, so there is no guarantee that IBM will be able to exist on cloud revenue five years from now. It sucks, but the truth is, IBM hasn't kept their customers happy, and with the customers leaving there isn't money to pay workers. On the other hand, Apple is opening a huge new data center where some ex-IBM staff might work, and several companies are expanding operations in Texas.
I'm sure many Slashdot readers will be directly affected by this, either being laid off themselves, surviving the layoffs only to go work in turmoil every day, or have their spouse or other loved one laid off. That's hard to deal with. Times will get better, of course, but it sure may not seem like it right now. Our hearts go out to you.
I haven't been served any court order. I haven't been ordered to not tell you that. It's pretty clear that I can't currently be in violation of an order that does not exist. Therefore, publishing a canary (prior to any court order) isn't illegal, the reasoning goes.
Suppose later I do receive an NSL or court order. Can the government legitimately force me to lie and publish statements saying I haven't? Is there any law that gives the executive branch the authority to order us to lie? If so, is that law repugnant to the first amendment and therefore void? Those are two open questions, questiond that Twitter and the Obama administration are litigating right now. Twitter says the first amendment gives them the right to say they have not received any NSLs. The Obama administration says they have the right to prevent Twitter from saying that.
The agencies that issue NSLs are the same agencies tracking everything that goes on via the internet. The list of suspects in such a case is short. Federal prison is not fun.
>. Not all Republicans are that extreme. (I don't normally have much good to say about today's Republicans, but I'm not going to be untruthful about them either. They do mostly suck, the Teabaggers really suck, but to say they're all against all regulation is patently false, they're just generally very big-business-friendly and not very helpful to poorer or middle-class Americans.)
I for one appreciate your intellectual honesty. So many people will be complicit in lies, and even actively spread lies, about people they disagree with. I've made similar statements about specific Democrats and their party platform.
Obama, for example, doesn't actually want to destroy America and establish a totalitarian regime. He wants things that he thinks will be good. His administration is only destructive because he's incompetent, like Bush Jr was before him.
>. 47K people may be only 9K to 15K households. If all the households have 2 adults and 2.2 kids, 5400 is about half the households in the city
If unicorns farted rainbows... It is not the case that all households have two adults and 2.2 children. I've told you twice already, the average household size is 2.51, meaning 18,801 households. Next time read the post you're replying to, m'kay?
Obama: Is there anything we haven't regulated yet?
Secretary Foxx: We haven't regulated the moon yet. Obama: Get on it! Don't leave anything without federal regulation.
There are 47,000 people in the city (who are on the hook for the bill). Of those 47,000, only 5,400 have chosen to get the service. The remaining people, who chose not to get the service, are the overwhelming majority.
You don't have to read minds, you can read TFA. Most citizens have chosen not to get the service.
ISPs, like other companies, seek to make money. You don't have to read their minds to know, that's one of their primary goals. They might also be environmentally conscience, care for their employees, etc., but definitely they want to make a profit. In business, profit is measured by Return On Investment, or ROI. If you spend $10 million and 10 years later you get your $10,000 back, but no profit, that's a return. If you spend $1 million and get $10 million back, that's a 1,000% ROI - very good. Businesses do things that they think will have a high ROI, and don't do things that have a low or negative ROI (with some exceptions like Apple's solar panels).
In this particular business, if you get back your investment in two to three years, then be profiting from it after that, that's a good project - one that makes plenty enough money. If you can spend $30 million, and in the first three years get back $30 million in sales, then in the fourth year have $10 million in profit, and $10 million profit every year thereafter, you do it.
So let's look at the arithmetic cable and phone companies do to make money. They look at this project and estimate the cost to build it (their investment), and the number of likely subscribers multiplied by the price each subscriber will pay - the company's expected return. They'll do the arithmetic for several price points, like these:
Cost to build 100 Mbps service: $30 million / 3 year recup = $10 / million per year. So if they expect to sell $10 million per year, that's profitable and they'll do it if they can.
10,000 subscribers X $75/month X 12 months = $9,000,000
15,000 subscribers X $60/month X 12 months = $10,800,000
Of 47,000 residents, if 10,000 of them will buy at $75/month, it's reasonably profitable, but not insanely profitable. They might build there, if they don't have somewhere better to build this month.
If 15,000 want to buy the service, the company brings in over $10 million per year on the $30 million investment and that's a winner. You definitely build there.
The actual numbers for this town are that 5,400 were willing to $50: 5400 X $50/month X 12 months = $3,240,000 Not a good deal. It takes ten years just to get your money back, except you've been paying (or foregoing) interest the whole time, so even after ten years you've lost money. Anyone who passed Business Management 101 will avoid this for sure.
>. Probably because the people at the ISP's don't give a shit what services the people there need/want?
> Probably because the people at the ISP's don't give a shit what services the people there need/want?
"Town of 47,000 residents... 5,400 subscribers". 5,400 people want the service, enough to pay $50/ month for it. 47,000 people are being forced to pay for it. It seems to me the city council doesn't care what the overwhelming majority of the people want. If the majority wanted the service, ISPs would provide the service, because it would be profitable. That's what businesses do - provide what people want. If they provide something people don't want, like Windows Phone, they're punished in the marketplace while those who provide what people want win.
>. The $28 million was the original estimate. The cost at the moment is about $38 million.
>. There are about 5,400 subscribers of the broadband service giving a debt of about $6,300 per subscriber.
It should perhaps be noted that the debt is payable not by the subscribers, but by the all households in the city, so they owe just over $2,000 per household.
I can see why the companies who were asked to put up the $38 million themselves didn't think that was a good idea. I wonder why the city council thought they were so much better qualified to make these projections than the people who run ISPs for a living.
I'm currently working for much less money than I might work elsewhere. I'm here partly because the people above me and around me pretty much stay out of the way and let me get the job done. They don't micromanage or have me spend my day filling out TPS reports.
I figure if you want to keep good people, and have them refer friends, watch Office Space and pretty much do the opposite of whatever Lumbergh does.
Specifically, remember people are ends, never just means. The purpose of the company is to serve the people involved - customers, employees, and owners. If you're seeing your customers as solely a means to an end, you're doing it wrong. If you're treating your employees as solely a means to some end, you're doing it wrong. If you see your boss or owners as just a means to get what you want, you're doing it wrong. We get together as an organization in order to benefit all concerned, that is the purpose.
Or get them some actual women, so they have something better to do than blow stuff up and get blown up. In one study, this would actually work with crackers - script kiddies greatly lessened their activity after getting a girlfriend. Presumably, the female provided sufficient motivation to venture out from mom's basement.
Greer says they have "zero tolerance for threats" (even imaginary ones) and "racial insensitivity". Tell me where that terminology came from. Maybe the other coast. Cali is a bit busy with ACTUAL gang bangers in their schools, aren't they.
I didn't say everyone SHOULD use an MCU. I said the same type of projects ALSO run on MCU, so a billion bytes of RAM is a few thousand times more than required.
Principal Greer, please take your zero-tolerance and hyper-PC bullshit back to California.
Let me see if I understand this. Previously, he was suspended for mentioning that another kid was "black", which apparently is a violation of some idiot's "tolerance for others" policy. You can't have the kid being "intolerant", by being aware of ethnic differences. Next, he's suspended based on Greer's zero-tolerance policy. Zero-tolerance for uhm - pretending, apparently.
Which reminds me of an odd thing about bison in Buffalo, New York. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. That is to say, New York bison whom New York bison bully themselves bully New York bison.
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These cocksuckers are actually Democrats who gave Obama almost a million dollars to help him get reelected.
http://influenceexplorer.com/o...
How has six or seven years of Obama worked out for the workers at IBM?
Based on having gone through the firefighter training courses numerous times for my job, talking with the guy who wrote the textbook on firefighting, and generally being around a firefighting school, this article sounds bunk to me. Heck, even the non-firefighter classes for IT security people cover the important risks of halon and some other firefighting materials.
It's claimed that "they" don't know what's in the foam. May be "they", the people who wrote the article, don't know, but I'm pretty sure our instructors know exactly what it is. I was talking to one of the instructors about trying to come up with a "poor man's" sprinkler system you could put it the kitchen or other high-risk areas and it sounds to me like he knows what the different systems use.
Sometimes some management forgets that employees are stakeholders just like the people who have invested their savings are. In this case, IBM has had 11 consecutive quarters (three years) of falling sales. If they don't take decisive action to turn things around, the company will be gone and everyone will be out of a job. They haven't been able to keep brining in the money selling the old products and services, cloud services are keeping them alive for now but Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple dominate cloud, so there is no guarantee that IBM will be able to exist on cloud revenue five years from now. It sucks, but the truth is, IBM hasn't kept their customers happy, and with the customers leaving there isn't money to pay workers. On the other hand, Apple is opening a huge new data center where some ex-IBM staff might work, and several companies are expanding operations in Texas.
I'm sure many Slashdot readers will be directly affected by this, either being laid off themselves, surviving the layoffs only to go work in turmoil every day, or have their spouse or other loved one laid off. That's hard to deal with. Times will get better, of course, but it sure may not seem like it right now. Our hearts go out to you.
I haven't been served any court order. I haven't been ordered to not tell you that. It's pretty clear that I can't currently be in violation of an order that does not exist. Therefore, publishing a canary (prior to any court order) isn't illegal, the reasoning goes.
Suppose later I do receive an NSL or court order. Can the government legitimately force me to lie and publish statements saying I haven't? Is there any law that gives the executive branch the authority to order us to lie? If so, is that law repugnant to the first amendment and therefore void? Those are two open questions, questiond that Twitter and the Obama administration are litigating right now. Twitter says the first amendment gives them the right to say they have not received any NSLs. The Obama administration says they have the right to prevent Twitter from saying that.
The agencies that issue NSLs are the same agencies tracking everything that goes on via the internet. The list of suspects in such a case is short. Federal prison is not fun.
>. Not all Republicans are that extreme. (I don't normally have much good to say about today's Republicans, but I'm not going to be untruthful about them either. They do mostly suck, the Teabaggers really suck, but to say they're all against all regulation is patently false, they're just generally very big-business-friendly and not very helpful to poorer or middle-class Americans.)
I for one appreciate your intellectual honesty. So many people will be complicit in lies, and even actively spread lies, about people they disagree with. I've made similar statements about specific Democrats and their party platform.
Obama, for example, doesn't actually want to destroy America and establish a totalitarian regime. He wants things that he thinks will be good. His administration is only destructive because he's incompetent, like Bush Jr was before him.
My other posts referred to households, or to population; I didn't realize I had mixed the two in that sentence.
Guess where kids live? Hint - there is a reason that there are 47,000 people and 18,801 households.
>. 47K people may be only 9K to 15K households. If all the households have 2 adults and 2.2 kids, 5400 is about half the households in the city
If unicorns farted rainbows ...
It is not the case that all households have two adults and 2.2 children. I've told you twice already, the average household size is 2.51, meaning 18,801 households. Next time read the post you're replying to, m'kay?
>. Says the person who only made note of the household issue when called on it,
No, the very first post made in the thread, I said how many households.
It seems the cabinet meeting went like this:
Obama: Is there anything we haven't regulated yet?
Secretary Foxx: We haven't regulated the moon yet.
Obama: Get on it! Don't leave anything without federal regulation.
5,400 get service, of the 18,801 households who have to pay for it.
I don't think I'll ever understand why people make wild guesses and post them as though they were facts.
Average household size in North Carolina is 2.51. I had looked it up so I could do the conversion correctly.
There are 47,000 people in the city (who are on the hook for the bill).
Of those 47,000, only 5,400 have chosen to get the service.
The remaining people, who chose not to get the service, are the overwhelming majority.
You don't have to read minds, you can read TFA. Most citizens have chosen not to get the service.
ISPs, like other companies, seek to make money. You don't have to read their minds to know, that's one of their primary goals. They might also be environmentally conscience, care for their employees, etc., but definitely they want to make a profit. In business, profit is measured by Return On Investment, or ROI. If you spend $10 million and 10 years later you get your $10,000 back, but no profit, that's a return. If you spend $1 million and get $10 million back, that's a 1,000% ROI - very good. Businesses do things that they think will have a high ROI, and don't do things that have a low or negative ROI (with some exceptions like Apple's solar panels).
In this particular business, if you get back your investment in two to three years, then be profiting from it after that, that's a good project - one that makes plenty enough money. If you can spend $30 million, and in the first three years get back $30 million in sales, then in the fourth year have $10 million in profit, and $10 million profit every year thereafter, you do it.
So let's look at the arithmetic cable and phone companies do to make money. They look at this project and estimate the cost to build it (their investment), and the number of likely subscribers multiplied by the price each subscriber will pay - the company's expected return. They'll do the arithmetic for several price points, like these:
Cost to build 100 Mbps service: $30 million / 3 year recup = $10 / million per year.
So if they expect to sell $10 million per year, that's profitable and they'll do it if they can.
10,000 subscribers X $75/month X 12 months = $9,000,000
15,000 subscribers X $60/month X 12 months = $10,800,000
Of 47,000 residents, if 10,000 of them will buy at $75/month, it's reasonably profitable, but not insanely profitable. They might build there, if they don't have somewhere better to build this month.
If 15,000 want to buy the service, the company brings in over $10 million per year on the $30 million investment and that's a winner. You definitely build there.
The actual numbers for this town are that 5,400 were willing to $50:
5400 X $50/month X 12 months = $3,240,000
Not a good deal. It takes ten years just to get your money back, except you've been paying (or foregoing) interest the whole time, so even after ten years you've lost money. Anyone who passed Business Management 101 will avoid this for sure.
>. Probably because the people at the ISP's don't give a shit what services the people there need/want?
> Probably because the people at the ISP's don't give a shit what services the people there need/want?
"Town of 47,000 residents ... 5,400 subscribers".
5,400 people want the service, enough to pay $50/ month for it. 47,000 people are being forced to pay for it. It seems to me the city council doesn't care what the overwhelming majority of the people want. If the majority wanted the service, ISPs would provide the service, because it would be profitable. That's what businesses do - provide what people want. If they provide something people don't want, like Windows Phone, they're punished in the marketplace while those who provide what people want win.
Michael Jordan having 'retired,' with $40 million in
endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not.
If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every
night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.
If he goes to see a movie, it'll cost him $7.00, but
he'll make $18,550 while he's there.
If he decides to have a 5-minute egg, he'll make
$618 while boiling it.
He makes $7,415/hour more than minimum wage.
If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX
($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours.
If someone were to hand him his salary and
endorsement money, they would have to do it
at the rate of $2.00 every second.
He'll probably pay around $200 for a nice round
of golf, but will be reimbursed $33,390 for
that round.
He'll make about $19.60 while watching the 100- meter dash in the
Olympics, and about
$15,600 during the Boston Marathon .
This year, he'll make more than twice as much
as all U.S. Past presidents for all of their
terms combined.
Amazing isn't it?
However...
If Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next
500 years, he'll still have less than Bill Gates has
at this very moment.
Game over. Nerd wins.
>. The $28 million was the original estimate. The cost at the moment is about $38 million.
>. There are about 5,400 subscribers of the broadband service giving a debt of about $6,300 per subscriber.
It should perhaps be noted that the debt is payable not by the subscribers, but by the all households in the city, so they owe just over $2,000 per household.
I can see why the companies who were asked to put up the $38 million themselves didn't think that was a good idea. I wonder why the city council thought they were so much better qualified to make these projections than the people who run ISPs for a living.
I'm currently working for much less money than I might work elsewhere. I'm here partly because the people above me and around me pretty much stay out of the way and let me get the job done. They don't micromanage or have me spend my day filling out TPS reports.
I figure if you want to keep good people, and have them refer friends, watch Office Space and pretty much do the opposite of whatever Lumbergh does.
Specifically, remember people are ends, never just means. The purpose of the company is to serve the people involved - customers, employees, and owners. If you're seeing your customers as solely a means to an end, you're doing it wrong. If you're treating your employees as solely a means to some end, you're doing it wrong. If you see your boss or owners as just a means to get what you want, you're doing it wrong. We get together as an organization in order to benefit all concerned, that is the purpose.
Or get them some actual women, so they have something better to do than blow stuff up and get blown up. In one study, this would actually work with crackers - script kiddies greatly lessened their activity after getting a girlfriend. Presumably, the female provided sufficient motivation to venture out from mom's basement.
Greer says they have "zero tolerance for threats" (even imaginary ones) and "racial insensitivity". Tell me where that terminology came from. Maybe the other coast. Cali is a bit busy with ACTUAL gang bangers in their schools, aren't they.
I didn't say everyone SHOULD use an MCU.
I said the same type of projects ALSO run on MCU, so a billion bytes of RAM is a few thousand times more than required.
Principal Greer, please take your zero-tolerance and hyper-PC bullshit back to California.
Let me see if I understand this. Previously, he was suspended for mentioning that another kid was "black", which apparently is a violation of some idiot's "tolerance for others" policy. You can't have the kid being "intolerant", by being aware of ethnic differences. Next, he's suspended based on Greer's zero-tolerance policy. Zero-tolerance for uhm - pretending, apparently.
Which reminds me of an odd thing about bison in Buffalo, New York. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. That is to say, New York bison whom New York bison bully themselves bully New York bison.
My (200 byte) program is in the ROM, I'm using the RAM for data. ;)