If somebody wants a fix for software that they haven't paid anything for, and they want it now, why not offer paid support on that one issue at a rate of $416 per hour? A 24 hour fix would place a cool $10,000 in your pocket. And if they don't want to, then tell them to hire somebody else to do it.
Yeah, some people just have no sense at all when it comes to simple common-sense proposal of a win-win deal. As you said, that's exactly the way to approach a demand for an immediate bug fix, propose a working relationship and a price. If the company which has paid you nothing balks at paying, and threatens you in any way, simply offer them an immediate full refund in exchange for terminating the relationship;-)
which is why i only buy Gold plated, oxygen free, twisted pair, sheathed Monster cables for $99.99 each. I can see the difference
On a serious note, I have personal experience with Monster USB *2* cables (they were the only 10-foot ones I could find on short notice) being absolutely horrible. Data errors all over the damn place (I write some USB drivers, so I can get a better look at what's actually happening than most). Actually worse than a $2 off-brand obviously-too-thin conductors mail-order piece of junk (which didn't work either, but...) So it's not only that they're not "better" in some esoteric sense, they're actually much worse than a plain old GE cable from Target which actually is just to spec rather than trying to be "better".
- Hospital finally admits bill was in error but sorry they sold it to the bill collector so not their problem and the damn bill collector ain't gonna stop calling
If you demand it, preferably in writing, they must verify the debt and provide you with documentation as to its validity--which is very hard to do after the hospital has already determined that the debt was never valid in the first place. There are plenty of websites on how to fight back against illicit collection attempts, you need to google "FDCPA" (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act)
I'm not sure having to pick up your delivery in person at a Walmart is quite the benefit Walmart thinks it is.
Exactly. A couple of times I got an offer for a discount on online purchase at Walmart, and I tried it, mostly out of curiosity. Both times I spent approximately 15 minutes hanging out in the back at the pick-up desk waiting for someone to show up and then retrieve the items, because the stores are so woefully understaffed. I could have been in & out with the same merchandise in *FAR* less time had I not ordered online (which, of course, also took some time).
OTOH, I tried the same thing at Target, walk in, the pick-up desk is at the front of the store, not the back, and it is always staffed, no ringing a buzzer then waiting 5-10 minutes, and your merchandise is right there, not far away in the very back of some giant storage area on a top shelf. (Hell, at busy times, I've seen *2* people at that desk helping customers, as opposed to the *0* that are always at Walmart, and never a significant wait.)
And no, I don't really even shop that much;-) I've just paid attention to these efforts a little out of curiosity as to which retailers will survive Amazon and how they'll do it...
I got an order of magnitude greater interest when I removed my graduation date from my profile.
I can beat that, I got infinitely more interest by doing that. Seriously, over a sample of dozens of resumes on both sides of the change, from 0% to almost 50%.
Knobs and buttons in a car seem to be going the way of the dodo.
Just bought a new car. Happy to say that trend seems to have peaked, and for some makes knobs and buttons are back, and I expect more makes will follow.
You could just as well be talking about the belief that 8 hours is the right amount.
Neuroscience has shown recently that the brain moves waste products, excess transmitters and toxic products out during sleep via the paravascular glymphatic system.
Which says absolutely NOTHING about whether, say, 6.5 hours would actually be sufficient for most people.
It's all very well to say that people need to learn not to take things personally...
Most people understand that to mean that adults should not take non-personal comments personally. The problem is that bullies turn it around to try to tell others that they should not take personal attacks personally, at which point it becomes bullshit.
How much labor is there in installing one panel next to another, once you're already there and setup for it?
A hundred dollars?
Even if you cut the panel count from 32 to 16, you're only cutting $1,600 off the install cost (and even that might be high).
No, you have to install the frame to hold the panel, secure it to the roof, waterproof the mounts, do some minimal wiring. There is significant per-panel labor cost.
Isn't their some law that gives border agents essentially unlimited rights to search and confiscate (no warrant required) so long as they are within 100 miles of any US border?
Founding legal theory is that as long as you're on the other side of the line, "outside" the USA, normal restrictions on government agents do not apply wrt to searches and so on.
BUT, my understanding is also that NO ONE, not any agent of any law enforcement branch, ever, under any circumstances, can deny entry to a US citizen. They may be able to legally (in theory at least) tell you that if you don't hand over your passwords you cannot enter with your stuff, but if you're willing to tell them, "yeah, OK, have a nice day" and walk away from your laptop, they can't prevent that. (Beyond long enough to search your luggage, verify your passport, etc.)
Cutting the panel count from 32 to 28 doesn't reduce the cost by more than perhaps a few hundred dollars.
One thing I forgot to point out, this article compares the output of these Solar City panels to SunPower, the current most efficient. That is a small margin. But compared to what Solar City currently uses, they're 30-40% more efficient. Now _that_ reduces panel count enough to lower installation cost.
It is crucial that Solar City says they'll cost the same to produce. Although a SunPower installation involves significantly fewer panels, the panels cost so much that the savings is not all that great. But cut panel count by 1/3 while keeping panel price the same, that actually matters.
Making the panels a bit more efficient won't cut the price by enough to matter until the install cost comes down.
More efficient means fewer panels, means lower install cost. This small an increment might not even eliminate 1 panel from your system, but the accumulation of these increments means you need way fewer panels than you did 10 years ago.
Myself, I'd run the test in every mode the TV has and compare results because you know consumers aren't going to ignore additional modes.
I have my doubts about that; I think most consumers will never even find the adjustments. Maybe a significant minority will, but I expect most will just plug it in and turn it on.
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I believe Oracle owns using more than 1 cpu in a query if I am correct...
Well, Sybase had it well over 20 years ago...
Why, exactly, do "consumers need to be more careful" with a $99 speculative advance order of a fancy little toy???
If somebody wants a fix for software that they haven't paid anything for, and they want it now, why not offer paid support on that one issue at a rate of $416 per hour? A 24 hour fix would place a cool $10,000 in your pocket. And if they don't want to, then tell them to hire somebody else to do it.
Yeah, some people just have no sense at all when it comes to simple common-sense proposal of a win-win deal. As you said, that's exactly the way to approach a demand for an immediate bug fix, propose a working relationship and a price. If the company which has paid you nothing balks at paying, and threatens you in any way, simply offer them an immediate full refund in exchange for terminating the relationship ;-)
which is why i only buy Gold plated, oxygen free, twisted pair, sheathed Monster cables for $99.99 each. I can see the difference
On a serious note, I have personal experience with Monster USB *2* cables (they were the only 10-foot ones I could find on short notice) being absolutely horrible. Data errors all over the damn place (I write some USB drivers, so I can get a better look at what's actually happening than most). Actually worse than a $2 off-brand obviously-too-thin conductors mail-order piece of junk (which didn't work either, but...) So it's not only that they're not "better" in some esoteric sense, they're actually much worse than a plain old GE cable from Target which actually is just to spec rather than trying to be "better".
My real problem was I needed the Mortgage now and all the work to clear stuff up takes real time.
I understand.
- Hospital finally admits bill was in error but sorry they sold it to the bill collector so not their problem and the damn bill collector ain't gonna stop calling
If you demand it, preferably in writing, they must verify the debt and provide you with documentation as to its validity--which is very hard to do after the hospital has already determined that the debt was never valid in the first place. There are plenty of websites on how to fight back against illicit collection attempts, you need to google "FDCPA" (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act)
In this case, security delayed calling in outside help by 10 minutes.
Maybe. Maybe not. The details are too thin to support that accusation with any certainty.
So if you call security second, security will not guide the ambulance correctly and blame you?
No, you fucking dumbass, the ambulance will already be on the road headed to the wrong location before you call security.
I'm not sure having to pick up your delivery in person at a Walmart is quite the benefit Walmart thinks it is.
Exactly. A couple of times I got an offer for a discount on online purchase at Walmart, and I tried it, mostly out of curiosity. Both times I spent approximately 15 minutes hanging out in the back at the pick-up desk waiting for someone to show up and then retrieve the items, because the stores are so woefully understaffed. I could have been in & out with the same merchandise in *FAR* less time had I not ordered online (which, of course, also took some time).
OTOH, I tried the same thing at Target, walk in, the pick-up desk is at the front of the store, not the back, and it is always staffed, no ringing a buzzer then waiting 5-10 minutes, and your merchandise is right there, not far away in the very back of some giant storage area on a top shelf. (Hell, at busy times, I've seen *2* people at that desk helping customers, as opposed to the *0* that are always at Walmart, and never a significant wait.)
And no, I don't really even shop that much ;-) I've just paid attention to these efforts a little out of curiosity as to which retailers will survive Amazon and how they'll do it...
Silicon Valley is chock-full of startups and Type-A corps, and they only want one thing: disposable slaves.
What you say is correct, but incomplete. In the valley now there really is this idiotic notion that nobody over 40 does innovative work.
I got an order of magnitude greater interest when I removed my graduation date from my profile.
I can beat that, I got infinitely more interest by doing that. Seriously, over a sample of dozens of resumes on both sides of the change, from 0% to almost 50%.
Knobs and buttons in a car seem to be going the way of the dodo.
Just bought a new car. Happy to say that trend seems to have peaked, and for some makes knobs and buttons are back, and I expect more makes will follow.
only in america, when somebody promises you something for nothing
Since when is a ~$2,000 contract "nothing"???
The big difference between Westerners and hunter gatherers is that if they get tired during the day, they can take a nap.
But if you RTFM, you'll see that in fact the people studied did NOT take naps.
This is not science, this is anecdotal.
You could just as well be talking about the belief that 8 hours is the right amount.
Neuroscience has shown recently that the brain moves waste products, excess transmitters and toxic products out during sleep via the paravascular glymphatic system.
Which says absolutely NOTHING about whether, say, 6.5 hours would actually be sufficient for most people.
It's all very well to say that people need to learn not to take things personally...
Most people understand that to mean that adults should not take non-personal comments personally. The problem is that bullies turn it around to try to tell others that they should not take personal attacks personally, at which point it becomes bullshit.
Regardless, I'm still hoping to hear someone suggest a company in the Dallas area that doesn't charge stupid rates.
Different technologies, different areas. In New England contractors are absolutely rapacious with geothermal installs.
Anyway, if you're the least bit handy, google for DIY solar installs. I'm actually considering it myself.
They can't deny you entry, but if there is a warrant out for your arrest...
Sure, they can let you in, then take you straight to jail. That counts ;-)
...but you will be arrested for illegal entry ...
No. Illegal entry is the act of *foreigners* entering improperly. A US citizen coming to the US is, by definition, never illegal entry.
Perhaps, but not by that much...
How much labor is there in installing one panel next to another, once you're already there and setup for it?
A hundred dollars?
Even if you cut the panel count from 32 to 16, you're only cutting $1,600 off the install cost (and even that might be high).
No, you have to install the frame to hold the panel, secure it to the roof, waterproof the mounts, do some minimal wiring. There is significant per-panel labor cost.
Isn't their some law that gives border agents essentially unlimited rights to search and confiscate (no warrant required) so long as they are within 100 miles of any US border?
Founding legal theory is that as long as you're on the other side of the line, "outside" the USA, normal restrictions on government agents do not apply wrt to searches and so on.
BUT, my understanding is also that NO ONE, not any agent of any law enforcement branch, ever, under any circumstances, can deny entry to a US citizen. They may be able to legally (in theory at least) tell you that if you don't hand over your passwords you cannot enter with your stuff, but if you're willing to tell them, "yeah, OK, have a nice day" and walk away from your laptop, they can't prevent that. (Beyond long enough to search your luggage, verify your passport, etc.)
While that is true, it won't lower it by much...
Cutting the panel count from 32 to 28 doesn't reduce the cost by more than perhaps a few hundred dollars.
One thing I forgot to point out, this article compares the output of these Solar City panels to SunPower, the current most efficient. That is a small margin. But compared to what Solar City currently uses, they're 30-40% more efficient. Now _that_ reduces panel count enough to lower installation cost.
It is crucial that Solar City says they'll cost the same to produce. Although a SunPower installation involves significantly fewer panels, the panels cost so much that the savings is not all that great. But cut panel count by 1/3 while keeping panel price the same, that actually matters.
Making the panels a bit more efficient won't cut the price by enough to matter until the install cost comes down.
More efficient means fewer panels, means lower install cost. This small an increment might not even eliminate 1 panel from your system, but the accumulation of these increments means you need way fewer panels than you did 10 years ago.
CUT TAXES! CUT TAXES!
No, see, really. See. If you cut taxes, you know, step 3, profit!
Myself, I'd run the test in every mode the TV has and compare results because you know consumers aren't going to ignore additional modes.
I have my doubts about that; I think most consumers will never even find the adjustments. Maybe a significant minority will, but I expect most will just plug it in and turn it on.
citations? boston bombinb ft hood those are the biggest terroristic acts since 9/11 were they white and christian??? didnt think so
And good grief, I forgot Dylann Roof.