Behold! The HP Scanjet Enterprise 9000. 150 pages at a time and a duty cycle of 5000 pages a day. Pretty much fully automated.
Hold on a second while I get out my HP-28S...
100 Boxes is about 150,000 loose pages (assuming banker's boxes). At 5000 pages a day you've got 30 days or one month.
So, at your rate of pay they could have had it all digitized for about $2400. Not including the cost of the scanner (since they made it themselves).
Document storage (paper) is about $0.30/box/month. So assuming that we stored these boxes since 1950, storage costs would be: $24,120.
You're right. They totally should have let you store those files on a USB key bouncing around in your car's glove box. Scanning is 10x cheaper than storing (paper) files.
According to the US Department of Energy, using national averages in the USA for power production shows well-to-wheel emissions about 50% less for EVs than gasoline ICE vehicles. Your assertion of it being a wash in the US is completely false. In fact, I could not find a state who's electricity production was so bad that driving an ICE vehicle would be better than an EV.
This is called economies of scale. Large-scale power-producing "factories" are much more efficient than everyone having their own small power-producing "factory" in their own automobile.
They probably wouldn't be so busy if people were not so desperate. Perhaps if the US government invested in better programs there wouldn't be so much crime to deal with. I know these problems are not easy ones to solve, but we're not going to fix anything by ruthlessly hammering it with a mallet. Absolutely everything seems like the wrong approach these days.
This behaviour kills people all the time. I had heard that the Fukushima pumps didn't work because they were not actually tested (BBC report I think), but Wikipedia does not back that up. People died in Walkerton Ontario because people falsified testing data of drinking water.
"During the time of the tragedy, both Stan and Frank Koebel denied any wrongdoing and firmly held that the water at Walkerton was safe to drink. However, as the tragedy grew in severity the two were eventually part of the criminal investigation into the tragedy, and, as a result, both would eventually plead guilty to a charge of common nuisance through a plea bargain. In their plea, they admitted to falsifying reports and Frank admitted to drinking on the job, as a beer fridge did exist at the facility."
In almost every job people's safety is on the line (oftentimes it is yours). You MUST be honest at work and diligent about reporting problems. If it gets you in trouble then you need to find a company with higher standards who will appreciate you. $0.02
How in the world is this news? This happens with your phone as well. If your smartphone "connects to an unauthenticated Wi-Fi network without connectivity" you get, no surprise, no connectivity. Because it uses the wi-fi device as the default route if it has one available.
Unless they shit the bed in the design and don't give you a way to turn off wi-fi separately, this isn't any more of a flaw than all of our phones.
The same reviewer also complains that after putting their paired phone into airplane mode and then walking around with the watch that they couldn't get connectivity. Well, that's how the darn thing works -- it automatically goes into airplane mode when you put your phone in airplane mode. Because it thinks you are on a plane...
TFA states that plowing the craft into Saturn was necessary to prevent contamination of the moons, but the mission began with dropping a Huygens Lander on Titan.
Seems like nobody has make the distinction between bacterial contamination and radioactive contamination. I suspect that the latter is actually the concern as the probe used an RTG for power and thus it was safest to de-orbit it into Saturn.
People all over the world are moving to where the jobs are and some of those places, for geological or political reasons, are restricted on how they can expand to meet the demand.
For businesses this really makes hiring new workers difficult -- they can't find anywhere to live if they are moving to the area.
Hint: This isn't a serious story. Your inability to comprehend that a Chinese company's bid for state funding on a project to one-up the Americans that isn't credible doesn't reflect very well on your logical prowess.
You bring up an excellent point which I did not address at all. Thank you.
Diesel lubricity regulations (HFRR spec) is much higher in Europe (and Canada) than it is in the USA. Combine that with the "occasional" mistake (oops, I put a bit of regular gas in my diesel), and the Common Rail engine design which requires a high-pressure fuel pump (HPFP) generating something above 10,000 psi to the injectors and which is lubricated and cooled by the diesel fuel itself, and you have a recipe for disaster.
The NHTSA investigated VW for this exact problem. When the HPFPs started going on their CR engines the cost to the consumer was $10,000 to fix it (because once the HPFP eats its own guts it contaminates the entire fuel system). Everything had to be replaced. VW just always claimed that the problem was that the consumer put gasoline in their car and would refuse to fix it. And the car may have in fact had gasoline in it, but it may have been contaminated at the fueling station, not the fault of anything that the consumer did.
I'm not passing judgment on their actions one way or another, but the dynamics of this are interesting. In a nutshell:
German car companies have historically made very good profits on diesel vehicles
They have been able to differentiate themselves from their American and Japanese rivals with the technology
They needed to find ways to overcome the limitations placed on them by new regulations if they wanted to continue to realize the revenue
They agreed to work together on this because all of them had a lot to lose
The first technology used was a "regeneration" system where every so often a CR (Common Rail) diesel would inject additional fuel into the exhaust and then incinerate it using very high temps. This would turn soot into ash. Pro: No extra tank needed for AdBlue. Con: This "filter" had to be replaced at great expense after it got full (about 150k-200k miles on a small car). It was also a very expensive system (about $5000 to replace if it failed)
The second technology they used was AdBlue. This is an older system that injects urea into the exhaust which has the effect of encapsulating the fine particles preventing them from floating away in the atmosphere. Pro: Cheap to produce. Better fuel efficiency because you didn't have to use fuel to meet emissions. Con: You needed a giant tank to hold the urea and it had to be refilled regularly.
Or they could just take a bath on profits and stop selling diesel vehicles. Which VW did for three years while they sorted this out (2006 - 2009). Every diesel auto manufacturer tried both systems. Everyone wanted the regen system to work. But it was pretty terrible -- people didn't understand it and there were a lot of complaints about the smell. There were even class action lawsuits against Dodge for the regen system they installed on their pickups so German vehicles were not the only ones.
AdBlue seemed like the more obvious way to go, but the large tank required that the vehicle's fuel tank would have to be smaller, and they would have to give up things like independent rear suspension (there was just no room for it). To overcome these issues they would have had to create larger vehicles which would have lowered fuel economy (and increased emissions ironically) and ultimately alienated their target market.
The point is that every option was a compromise and they had a lot to lose. So they cheated. And got caught. There is just no way to make diesel work as cleanly as it needs to and frankly, there is just no need for it anymore. Gasoline engines have come a long way in the interim and electric vehicle costs will be at parity in just a few years (according to Bloomberg).
Goodbye diesel. I will miss you, but your time has come.
You are using Android. When an app in iOS requests access to your camera/notifications/contacts/location/etc the OS pops up a requester saying "Hey, FooBar want's to send you notifications! Allow or Cancel".
Most people just punch "allow". I evaluate each app and only allow it to have the access I think it is necessary for it. And you can turn it off later if you decide wrong in the OS's settings area. I've never had an app override my wishes (I don't think that is possible).
"Killer robots" are going to be created. As it gets easier and easier to do with off-the-shelf and/or printed components it is inevitable. Once that happens what comes next will be a matter of cyber security and cyber warfare. The "winner" in any war that uses autonomous killing machines as combatants will be the side with the best electronic warfare systems.
Gen. Paul Selva probably understands that this is currently not his government, and recent administrations either have not gotten the memo or are playing their cards very close to their chest. I suspect he is much more worried about creating efficient killing machines that get co-opted and controlled by his adversaries than some AI going rogue and asserting their position atop Earth's food chain.
Probably both techniques can be used to lose and maintain weight. The difference is essentially that constant fat and protein intake will kill you off early whereas less food and more exercise has a net benefit to your long-term health.
My company has very strong policies about sexual harassment, including a ban on anyone entering into a sexual relationship with a subordinate.
No chance of this being abused... Exactly how does your company plan to prove sexual relationship? That sounds like a rule that is meant to express a policy but which is absolutely not enforcible and may, in fact, be against the law.
Most companies have a rule against moral turpitude of which even the feds have had to repeal the section on "adultery".
Your work sounds like a typical American puritanical bureaucratic shit-show. Nobody should be harassed at work in any way, including sexual harassment, but in the rest of the civilized world you can have consensual sex with whomever you damn well please without the church, your work, the government, or anybody else telling you what they feel is right or wrong or good for you.
I knew a husband and wife team who kept their relationship on the down-low but she worked for him in all the companies they were employed at together. Your company would "ban" the guy from having sex with his wife FFS.
You're totally right. While the rest of the world is trying to attract the world's top talent, the US is actively hostile towards it. Trump seems to have missed the memo where these people generate wealth and jobs.
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Behold! The HP Scanjet Enterprise 9000. 150 pages at a time and a duty cycle of 5000 pages a day. Pretty much fully automated.
Hold on a second while I get out my HP-28S...
100 Boxes is about 150,000 loose pages (assuming banker's boxes). At 5000 pages a day you've got 30 days or one month.
So, at your rate of pay they could have had it all digitized for about $2400. Not including the cost of the scanner (since they made it themselves).
Document storage (paper) is about $0.30/box/month. So assuming that we stored these boxes since 1950, storage costs would be: $24,120.
You're right. They totally should have let you store those files on a USB key bouncing around in your car's glove box. Scanning is 10x cheaper than storing (paper) files.
According to the US Department of Energy, using national averages in the USA for power production shows well-to-wheel emissions about 50% less for EVs than gasoline ICE vehicles. Your assertion of it being a wash in the US is completely false. In fact, I could not find a state who's electricity production was so bad that driving an ICE vehicle would be better than an EV.
This is called economies of scale. Large-scale power-producing "factories" are much more efficient than everyone having their own small power-producing "factory" in their own automobile.
They probably wouldn't be so busy if people were not so desperate. Perhaps if the US government invested in better programs there wouldn't be so much crime to deal with. I know these problems are not easy ones to solve, but we're not going to fix anything by ruthlessly hammering it with a mallet. Absolutely everything seems like the wrong approach these days.
I'm probably just getting (really) old...
This behaviour kills people all the time. I had heard that the Fukushima pumps didn't work because they were not actually tested (BBC report I think), but Wikipedia does not back that up. People died in Walkerton Ontario because people falsified testing data of drinking water.
"During the time of the tragedy, both Stan and Frank Koebel denied any wrongdoing and firmly held that the water at Walkerton was safe to drink. However, as the tragedy grew in severity the two were eventually part of the criminal investigation into the tragedy, and, as a result, both would eventually plead guilty to a charge of common nuisance through a plea bargain. In their plea, they admitted to falsifying reports and Frank admitted to drinking on the job, as a beer fridge did exist at the facility."
In almost every job people's safety is on the line (oftentimes it is yours). You MUST be honest at work and diligent about reporting problems. If it gets you in trouble then you need to find a company with higher standards who will appreciate you. $0.02
Sadly, he was before my time so I never got to meet him. He wouldn't be on Slashdot though...
You think you're deaf now? Just wait...
You're all youngsters...
If you like Laphroaig I think you will enjoy it. Happy to make the intro â" let me know what you think.
Also, ARDBEG.
The oldest comment of mine that I could find. There must be ones much older than that, but my account info won't take me back any further.
How in the world is this news? This happens with your phone as well. If your smartphone "connects to an unauthenticated Wi-Fi network without connectivity" you get, no surprise, no connectivity. Because it uses the wi-fi device as the default route if it has one available.
Unless they shit the bed in the design and don't give you a way to turn off wi-fi separately, this isn't any more of a flaw than all of our phones.
The same reviewer also complains that after putting their paired phone into airplane mode and then walking around with the watch that they couldn't get connectivity. Well, that's how the darn thing works -- it automatically goes into airplane mode when you put your phone in airplane mode. Because it thinks you are on a plane...
This seems like a blogger looking for clicks.
Now we know where they all went! I can't wait to drive on it!
You can find the full text of the agreement on Scribd.
TFA states that plowing the craft into Saturn was necessary to prevent contamination of the moons, but the mission began with dropping a Huygens Lander on Titan.
Seems like nobody has make the distinction between bacterial contamination and radioactive contamination. I suspect that the latter is actually the concern as the probe used an RTG for power and thus it was safest to de-orbit it into Saturn.
RIP Cassini. Thanks for all the science.
That is essentially what is going on in Toronto where a house recently sold for more than a milliion over asking.
People all over the world are moving to where the jobs are and some of those places, for geological or political reasons, are restricted on how they can expand to meet the demand.
For businesses this really makes hiring new workers difficult -- they can't find anywhere to live if they are moving to the area.
Hint: This isn't a serious story. Your inability to comprehend that a Chinese company's bid for state funding on a project to one-up the Americans that isn't credible doesn't reflect very well on your logical prowess.
This should be as successful as their Road Straddling Bus".
You bring up an excellent point which I did not address at all. Thank you.
Diesel lubricity regulations (HFRR spec) is much higher in Europe (and Canada) than it is in the USA. Combine that with the "occasional" mistake (oops, I put a bit of regular gas in my diesel), and the Common Rail engine design which requires a high-pressure fuel pump (HPFP) generating something above 10,000 psi to the injectors and which is lubricated and cooled by the diesel fuel itself, and you have a recipe for disaster.
The NHTSA investigated VW for this exact problem. When the HPFPs started going on their CR engines the cost to the consumer was $10,000 to fix it (because once the HPFP eats its own guts it contaminates the entire fuel system). Everything had to be replaced. VW just always claimed that the problem was that the consumer put gasoline in their car and would refuse to fix it. And the car may have in fact had gasoline in it, but it may have been contaminated at the fueling station, not the fault of anything that the consumer did.
What a mess. Hundreds of pages of analysis here.
I'm not passing judgment on their actions one way or another, but the dynamics of this are interesting. In a nutshell:
Or they could just take a bath on profits and stop selling diesel vehicles. Which VW did for three years while they sorted this out (2006 - 2009). Every diesel auto manufacturer tried both systems. Everyone wanted the regen system to work. But it was pretty terrible -- people didn't understand it and there were a lot of complaints about the smell. There were even class action lawsuits against Dodge for the regen system they installed on their pickups so German vehicles were not the only ones.
AdBlue seemed like the more obvious way to go, but the large tank required that the vehicle's fuel tank would have to be smaller, and they would have to give up things like independent rear suspension (there was just no room for it). To overcome these issues they would have had to create larger vehicles which would have lowered fuel economy (and increased emissions ironically) and ultimately alienated their target market.
The point is that every option was a compromise and they had a lot to lose. So they cheated. And got caught. There is just no way to make diesel work as cleanly as it needs to and frankly, there is just no need for it anymore. Gasoline engines have come a long way in the interim and electric vehicle costs will be at parity in just a few years (according to Bloomberg).
Goodbye diesel. I will miss you, but your time has come.
You are using Android. When an app in iOS requests access to your camera/notifications/contacts/location/etc the OS pops up a requester saying "Hey, FooBar want's to send you notifications! Allow or Cancel".
Most people just punch "allow". I evaluate each app and only allow it to have the access I think it is necessary for it. And you can turn it off later if you decide wrong in the OS's settings area. I've never had an app override my wishes (I don't think that is possible).
"Killer robots" are going to be created. As it gets easier and easier to do with off-the-shelf and/or printed components it is inevitable. Once that happens what comes next will be a matter of cyber security and cyber warfare. The "winner" in any war that uses autonomous killing machines as combatants will be the side with the best electronic warfare systems.
Gen. Paul Selva probably understands that this is currently not his government, and recent administrations either have not gotten the memo or are playing their cards very close to their chest. I suspect he is much more worried about creating efficient killing machines that get co-opted and controlled by his adversaries than some AI going rogue and asserting their position atop Earth's food chain.
Probably both techniques can be used to lose and maintain weight. The difference is essentially that constant fat and protein intake will kill you off early whereas less food and more exercise has a net benefit to your long-term health.
You'll be a marvel if you live to be 90.
My company has very strong policies about sexual harassment, including a ban on anyone entering into a sexual relationship with a subordinate.
No chance of this being abused... Exactly how does your company plan to prove sexual relationship? That sounds like a rule that is meant to express a policy but which is absolutely not enforcible and may, in fact, be against the law.
Most companies have a rule against moral turpitude of which even the feds have had to repeal the section on "adultery".
Your work sounds like a typical American puritanical bureaucratic shit-show. Nobody should be harassed at work in any way, including sexual harassment, but in the rest of the civilized world you can have consensual sex with whomever you damn well please without the church, your work, the government, or anybody else telling you what they feel is right or wrong or good for you.
I knew a husband and wife team who kept their relationship on the down-low but she worked for him in all the companies they were employed at together. Your company would "ban" the guy from having sex with his wife FFS.
Canada's Startup Visa Program
You're totally right. While the rest of the world is trying to attract the world's top talent, the US is actively hostile towards it. Trump seems to have missed the memo where these people generate wealth and jobs.
This is going to make chroming the moon considerably less cool.