But, if this RFID thing goes viral, you can expect the return of towels and robes and sheets and blankets that make you want to go to a hotel even if you don't have a reason.
Now if only they could do something consistent about the fucking bedbugs.
Like a giant safe. Locking rollup doors on all four sides, and a locking flip-top lid. She goes into a room and pulls this thing flush to the door frame. It may even lock to the doorframe (that's next if it's not already).
No more casually walking by and grabbing whatever you need. You have to get her to intervene, and then you're tracked.
It's not a court. There's no beyond a reasonable doubt, no preponderance of the evidence, no jury to manipulate. Arbitrators are trained. You can show them the logic, and if your logic is sound you win. Then they award you what you're demanding, and make the other guy pay the costs.
So in the end you get back 100% of what AT&T cost you, and you stick them with all of the extra expense they created by causing the problem. And to you it's a free vacation, although the town you might be visiting may not be your dream getaway.
It is far, far, FAR more expensive, on a per-instance basis, for the loser. Just don't go into it if you don't understand your position. But if you do understand your position, fuck 'em blue.
It will either cause them never to allow their employees to make a mistake, or to rescind the arbitration requirement in all their agreements.
The first 500,000 times AT&T goes to arbitration and has the user's full losses, plus the costs of being in arbitration, sucked out of their pockets, they'll realize just how cheap class-action suits really are. First, by making it one legal action to pay for. Second, because class-action lawyers ALWAYS settle for a fraction of the real lost value, because they're getting a third of it and that's $millions even if to a member of the class it's pennies on the $.
This is actually GREAT. It means that we can go to arbitration on class issues and slap them around millions of times over the same thing.
Most of it was because it was designed only for firing and carrying specs and tested only in clean conditions.
Jump into a couple of foxholes and you're disassembling the fucking thing to get the sand out from between the bolt and the receiver. Whereas you could shake an AK-47 clean in a muddy puddle and come up firing.
If the ammo added problems, that's the ammo's problem. The M-16 was a weapon characterized by an occasional failure to fail.
Your average outcropping of rock looks a lot different from how it did "millions of years ago". Even your average buried rock is likely to have been mashed or cracked. Even the moon has gotten significantly smaller and moved farther away, and grown a mess of craters. The sun? Probably the most rapidly changing object between us and Proxima Centauri.
Pretty much nothing fails to change over that timespan.
1. how does it work? 2. where is the motor? 3. it's generally either the motor that dies, or the heat-sink fins on the coils that crust over with deposits and growths, abd cause it to lose effieciency. does this unit work without a motor? does it not need a heat sink? 4. where is it getting the power needed to cause the heat to flow against the thermal gradient to pump it into or out of the transfer medium that goes to the air exchanger? is it efficient at doing this? 5. who cares how long it lasts if it's less efficient?
1. You're not a business major. You're a computer nerd.
2. After a couple of years of buying keyboards and locating backup files for the mouth-breathing frat boys who run the companies you work for, you'll be saying "fuck you" a lot to the backs of their heads, and you'll understand why that "hard work makes you rich" bullshit is a con game.
3. I have no problem with taxing the shit out of quants and the nerds who enable them. Nor with putting throttles on all trades and forcing a licensed broker to sign his name or scan his thumb for every individual trade as it's booked. The "Flash Crash" killed people's retirements dead because the assholes who programmed the high-frequency trading platforms had no conception of positive feedback and included no "what the fuck" conditionals in the software. For them, I recommend an ancient punishment known as peine forte et dure; i.e., they are to be lain upon the ground in the town square and massive slabs of stone are to be stacked upon them successively until they cease to live (hint: that happens a lot later in the process than the breaking of bone does). And, as their future sysadmin, you should feel free to raid their email for illegal conversations to turn in to the feds.
I can still remember the night about 10 years ago when they powered-up the lighting on just one brand-new automobile dealership 4 miles from my house, and half the stars that were there the night before, weren't there any more.
I can also remember lying on my back on a beach in the Grand Canyon on a moonless night, seeing the sky the way every human used to see it, and seeing everything around me castng sharp shadows just from starlight.
We could actually see at night, until we started using light to see by.
We're at a point in the economy where frivolity is frivolity and earnest but overstated arguments about its worth to humanity need to be ignored in favor of budgeting according to utility.
No, I fully expected that they were. But in my experience, unless the person is an exemplary engineer, the documentation will not describe the code even if the coder wrote the documentation.
It's getting harder and harder to find people who understand why their own stuff works the way it does, even when it meets the requirements.
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"the development of conference and training content"
Jeebus.
Who did he piss off?
Kleptos ruin it for everyone.
But, if this RFID thing goes viral, you can expect the return of towels and robes and sheets and blankets that make you want to go to a hotel even if you don't have a reason.
Now if only they could do something consistent about the fucking bedbugs.
Yyyyyup.
That credit card is like a damage deposit.
Hotels know their shit. Even if they let a lot of mopes get away with things.
Free seared towel that smells like burnt popcorn forever.
Seen a modern maid's cart in a nice hotel lately?
Like a giant safe. Locking rollup doors on all four sides, and a locking flip-top lid. She goes into a room and pulls this thing flush to the door frame. It may even lock to the doorframe (that's next if it's not already).
No more casually walking by and grabbing whatever you need. You have to get her to intervene, and then you're tracked.
It enhances their usefulness.
Now you can use them as a form of ID, even if everyone else in the customs area on Baloofinax IV stole their towels from the same hotel.
Really? I can see hospitals screwing themselves and passing the costs on to patients by doing that.
But if I was negotiating, I'd insist on paying only for what you are actually cleaning for me.
Fuck hospitals.
This is a classic, 100%-nails example of a "wish I thought of that" idea.
It's not a court. There's no beyond a reasonable doubt, no preponderance of the evidence, no jury to manipulate. Arbitrators are trained. You can show them the logic, and if your logic is sound you win. Then they award you what you're demanding, and make the other guy pay the costs.
So in the end you get back 100% of what AT&T cost you, and you stick them with all of the extra expense they created by causing the problem. And to you it's a free vacation, although the town you might be visiting may not be your dream getaway.
It is far, far, FAR more expensive, on a per-instance basis, for the loser. Just don't go into it if you don't understand your position. But if you do understand your position, fuck 'em blue.
It will either cause them never to allow their employees to make a mistake, or to rescind the arbitration requirement in all their agreements.
I paid for my bandwidth. You didn't.
If the EFF wants open wireless, let the EFF install it all around my city.
The first 500,000 times AT&T goes to arbitration and has the user's full losses, plus the costs of being in arbitration, sucked out of their pockets, they'll realize just how cheap class-action suits really are. First, by making it one legal action to pay for. Second, because class-action lawyers ALWAYS settle for a fraction of the real lost value, because they're getting a third of it and that's $millions even if to a member of the class it's pennies on the $.
This is actually GREAT. It means that we can go to arbitration on class issues and slap them around millions of times over the same thing.
Most of it was because it was designed only for firing and carrying specs and tested only in clean conditions.
Jump into a couple of foxholes and you're disassembling the fucking thing to get the sand out from between the bolt and the receiver. Whereas you could shake an AK-47 clean in a muddy puddle and come up firing.
If the ammo added problems, that's the ammo's problem. The M-16 was a weapon characterized by an occasional failure to fail.
Now it's the alternator belt that goes out.
(Shh. Don't tell anyone it's the same belt.)
TFA is on a stupid hippy-dippy design blog site run by children.
I'm sure they're impressed, but anyone who's been reading this grade of journalism in Popular Science for a few decades is not.
Like what?
Your average outcropping of rock looks a lot different from how it did "millions of years ago". Even your average buried rock is likely to have been mashed or cracked. Even the moon has gotten significantly smaller and moved farther away, and grown a mess of craters. The sun? Probably the most rapidly changing object between us and Proxima Centauri.
Pretty much nothing fails to change over that timespan.
1. how does it work? 2. where is the motor? 3. it's generally either the motor that dies, or the heat-sink fins on the coils that crust over with deposits and growths, abd cause it to lose effieciency. does this unit work without a motor? does it not need a heat sink? 4. where is it getting the power needed to cause the heat to flow against the thermal gradient to pump it into or out of the transfer medium that goes to the air exchanger? is it efficient at doing this? 5. who cares how long it lasts if it's less efficient?
Nope. Just the "wrote software that flies in space" part pretty much does it.
And yes, I have.
If he doesn't bring one along himself, he's a humorless son of a bitch.
1. You're not a business major. You're a computer nerd.
2. After a couple of years of buying keyboards and locating backup files for the mouth-breathing frat boys who run the companies you work for, you'll be saying "fuck you" a lot to the backs of their heads, and you'll understand why that "hard work makes you rich" bullshit is a con game.
3. I have no problem with taxing the shit out of quants and the nerds who enable them. Nor with putting throttles on all trades and forcing a licensed broker to sign his name or scan his thumb for every individual trade as it's booked. The "Flash Crash" killed people's retirements dead because the assholes who programmed the high-frequency trading platforms had no conception of positive feedback and included no "what the fuck" conditionals in the software. For them, I recommend an ancient punishment known as peine forte et dure; i.e., they are to be lain upon the ground in the town square and massive slabs of stone are to be stacked upon them successively until they cease to live (hint: that happens a lot later in the process than the breaking of bone does). And, as their future sysadmin, you should feel free to raid their email for illegal conversations to turn in to the feds.
Ein Feuerwall.
Oder ein Brandwand.
C'mon. Pull the other one. It's got a dolphin with a grid of LEDs embedded in it's side.
If your career goal is to use the rest of the world as your piggy-bank, you should at least prime that pump.
I can still remember the night about 10 years ago when they powered-up the lighting on just one brand-new automobile dealership 4 miles from my house, and half the stars that were there the night before, weren't there any more.
I can also remember lying on my back on a beach in the Grand Canyon on a moonless night, seeing the sky the way every human used to see it, and seeing everything around me castng sharp shadows just from starlight.
We could actually see at night, until we started using light to see by.
We're at a point in the economy where frivolity is frivolity and earnest but overstated arguments about its worth to humanity need to be ignored in favor of budgeting according to utility.
No, I fully expected that they were. But in my experience, unless the person is an exemplary engineer, the documentation will not describe the code even if the coder wrote the documentation.
It's getting harder and harder to find people who understand why their own stuff works the way it does, even when it meets the requirements.