I worked for one of the world's largest agricultural machinery companies and we did precisely that. Every part of every machine we had in stock just in case. Harvest season can be as short as a few weeks, so a broken part at the wrong time can bankrupt a farmer. Of course they pay for the privilege and it's a kind of insurance. The easy solution here (and pure capitalism/free market) is for retailers to offer same day replacement insurance for a fee. If you can't live without your phone you pay more insurance and get a quicker replacement, if you don't care you wait while it gets replaced.
That's fine for you, but would you expect you mother to do the same thing? I'm pretty sure that 99.9% of people who aren't into tech use real answers and get burnt. Account providers really need to get their act together on this flaw.
The flaw I've noticed these days, is a lot of these web services force you to have a security question, then limit you to 3 obvious choices (such as mother's maiden name, first pet, favourite teacher etc) Of course those of use with a brain don't use real answers, but for ma and pa kettle it is an open door.
Fans have been reluctant to accept it and aren't showing up at races.
This fails the logic test. F1 only visits one country per season (with a minor exception). If this is the first season, how would anyone know what the cars sound like until they are there at the track and have paid for their ticket? If sound is to blame for poor crowds, then any impact wouldn't be felt until next season after crowds have had a chance to hear them at least once.
I've been to a couple of F1s. The interest is usually dictated by driver personalities. It goes up when you have the likes of Schumacher and Senna, then wanes with the likes of Vettel, and Alonso.
Loud doesn't impress me. The sound of a turbo blow off value in something like a Toyota Supra as it cycles through the lower gears in just a couple seconds is for more sexy than any top fuel dragster, and thats just out of the factory.
You want to try going 60km/h on a silent electric bicycle, or pulling 40 knots in a sailboat. I used to be a car guy, but have learnt that noise is just noise. The real thrill is speed, and not just raw numbers, but speed relative to the vehicle you're in/on. And once you've had a taste of silent speed it's hard to go back to the noisy old dinosaurs of the 20th century. One day our kids will look back and laugh just like I did when I first saw the black-faced old engineer shoveling coal into a steam train furnace. The combustion engine is dirty, smelly and noisy, it has no place in the future.
I expect the limitations of electricity will create a new style of racing, rather than just copy F1, they will design races to suit the technology. Shorter sharper races, perhaps using capacitors to reduce waste (ie in a 4 second drag race, why bother with a heavy old battery?) Or even have races based on real driving conditions rather than just raw speed, ie throw in some traffic lights, and boom gates and do more gymkhana style street racing.
Just as steam replace the horse, and petrol replaced steam, soon electricity will replace petrol. And those who grow up around it will treat us like those black-faced old men of the past.
Noah wasn't in a flood because that is a fairy tale...
Also the definition of "Flood Plain" may differ based on location. Where I live it is a legal term used as a covenant on property to distinguish land at high risk of regular floods (usually from rising rivers/poor drainage, so as to advise both potential buyers and insurance companies of risk. I'm not aware of any coastal property falling under this definition.
You do have free right to it. Keep it in jar under your mattress and you will pay no fees (I'm not even going to get into inflation). Of course if you want to be able to move money around quickly and easily, that is convenient and offers an alternative to jars and/or pockets filled with paper then there are businesses out there that cater to that. We call them banks, and for a small fee they offer money related services.
I still don't get how you think they should give you this service for free? Do you expect someone to mow your lawns for free too? I mean they are your lawns right? How about cleaning your car? Should the car wash guy clean your car for free because after all it is your car?
You have free access to your money, just don't give it to someone who you signed a contract with to offer you a fee based service, then complain when they charge you a fee for the service.
I have a theory on this. Why is it that countries like NZ and Iceland etc are nice and friendly while others are angry and hostile. Two key components, size and isolation.
Being small means you are always manageable and less prone to corruption (yeah it's still there, but at a far smaller scale as to not be an major issue). Being small also means everyone knows each other, so it's harder to be a jerk when your decision directly affect people you actually know.
Isolation creates the benefit of not having every Tom, Dick or Mohammed coming through the place trying to take pieces of it. It offers no strategic value so all the jerks focus on bigger targets, leaving you with only lightweight jerks.
Neither of these things are going to change in the short or medium term, so I wouldn't worry too much.
One outcome of this idea, is that along the lines of the Monkeysphere theory, maybe countries like the US and China are too big? Maybe the best path for humanity is smaller countries and/or states? Corruption seems to be a function of size, so if the world was divided into NZ/Iceland type chunks would we all be better off?
We had armed robbery just last night here in Sydney. Cops were tipped off so we're waiting for the strike and arrested all the offenders, one of which was a cop.
Fuck the Police.
The highest profile case on at the moment is a murder case of a young drug dealer, the two defendents being ex-cops with a history of drugs and violence who thought they'd get some free drugs.
Fuck the Police.
Who is going to clean this mess up?
In theory they shouldn't be allowed to use a radio either. The issue is a physical limitation which prevents a human brain from talking and operating a machine at the same time. Don't have the reference but the brain just can't deal with those two task at once, hence the law. I see no reason why cops are exempt. Just like seat belts, physics doesn't discriminate based on a uniform.
We had a case here while back (too lazy to look it up) where a cop shot another cop during a raid (accidentally, through being completely incompetent with a firearm) and killed him. The dude getting his house raided got convicted of manslaughter for letting it happen, and the cop who pulled the trigger got an award for bravery or something equally ridiculous. What fucking bizarro universe are we living in here?
How does this get modded insightful? If you rely purely on paper money, someone has to make that money. Who pays for that? It ain't free buddy, we all pay for that through taxes. Who pays to deliver that money to you? Who pays for the cash register to store it in? Who pays for the mattress you keep it under? Everything has a cost, just because you realise this, doesn't make it any less true.
A bank offers convenience, and it too comes at a cost. I'll leave to you to decide if that cost is more or less than all the tin foil hats you spend your paper money on....
Not just coffee, but the clock. Prior to the 19th century most humans didn't have a concept of time. There was dawn, dusk and noon and that was it. There was no meeting at 8am, or conference at 3pm, you just did shit when you felt like it. When you go on holiday to some third world island you get a taste of what it was like. They just do stuff whenever they get around to it, and strangely when most people go on holiday they always feel a whole lot better.
Menial tasks are designed to instill discipline. Move a pallet of bricks from one side of the yard to another one brick at a time. Now move it back again. It teaches you do what you are told so that when it comes time to pull the trigger you do it.
Objection to authority is precisely the opposite of what they teach in the military.
I took a month off and helped my builder build a new basement under our existing house. It was far more interesting than any IT project I've ever worked on. Figuring out how to dig a hole under and existing dwelling, run drainage so it didn't flood, all the electrical and plumbing challenges, design of doors and windows, and now the interior decoration. If I didn't get paid three times as much as a tradie, I'd swap jobs in a second.
most of us got into technical fields to avoid doing manual labor in the first place, let alone that which doesn't make a positive contribution.
I got into Tech because it paid heaps more than everything else. I'm quite happy to mow lawns or dig a hole if I get paid the same. In fact my last contract I was able to work from home 2 days a week. I was the highest paid gardener in the country:)
But you don't get it, you're supposed to be afraid so that you feel better about buying whatever product the fear-mongers are selling. I have open Wi-Fi too. For fun I monitored it to see who was connecting and what type of traffic I'd get, but after a month or so I gave up because no-one connected to it. Even years later I've never gone over my quota so what do I care if someone gets some free internet?
Seems to be the big flaw in Google's Web-everything strategy, there are times we we can't be online, so need an offline option. I was in Indonesia a couple of months ago and didn't want to pay exorbitant roaming charges, so took my phone, but only to use the wi-fi at the hotel and emergency purposes. I tried to cache a few maps for use when venturing out but it didn't work.
Google products are mostly shit. If they didn't have Search and Maps I doubt they'd still be around. If Nokia can kill their Maps market, then we only need someone to come up with a competitive Search app and we can kiss their hairy little arses goodbye. Seriously, how hard can it be to make decent Search?
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I worked for one of the world's largest agricultural machinery companies and we did precisely that. Every part of every machine we had in stock just in case. Harvest season can be as short as a few weeks, so a broken part at the wrong time can bankrupt a farmer. Of course they pay for the privilege and it's a kind of insurance. The easy solution here (and pure capitalism/free market) is for retailers to offer same day replacement insurance for a fee. If you can't live without your phone you pay more insurance and get a quicker replacement, if you don't care you wait while it gets replaced.
That's fine for you, but would you expect you mother to do the same thing? I'm pretty sure that 99.9% of people who aren't into tech use real answers and get burnt. Account providers really need to get their act together on this flaw.
The flaw I've noticed these days, is a lot of these web services force you to have a security question, then limit you to 3 obvious choices (such as mother's maiden name, first pet, favourite teacher etc) Of course those of use with a brain don't use real answers, but for ma and pa kettle it is an open door.
Fans have been reluctant to accept it and aren't showing up at races.
This fails the logic test. F1 only visits one country per season (with a minor exception). If this is the first season, how would anyone know what the cars sound like until they are there at the track and have paid for their ticket? If sound is to blame for poor crowds, then any impact wouldn't be felt until next season after crowds have had a chance to hear them at least once. I've been to a couple of F1s. The interest is usually dictated by driver personalities. It goes up when you have the likes of Schumacher and Senna, then wanes with the likes of Vettel, and Alonso.
Loud doesn't impress me. The sound of a turbo blow off value in something like a Toyota Supra as it cycles through the lower gears in just a couple seconds is for more sexy than any top fuel dragster, and thats just out of the factory.
You want to try going 60km/h on a silent electric bicycle, or pulling 40 knots in a sailboat. I used to be a car guy, but have learnt that noise is just noise. The real thrill is speed, and not just raw numbers, but speed relative to the vehicle you're in/on. And once you've had a taste of silent speed it's hard to go back to the noisy old dinosaurs of the 20th century. One day our kids will look back and laugh just like I did when I first saw the black-faced old engineer shoveling coal into a steam train furnace. The combustion engine is dirty, smelly and noisy, it has no place in the future. I expect the limitations of electricity will create a new style of racing, rather than just copy F1, they will design races to suit the technology. Shorter sharper races, perhaps using capacitors to reduce waste (ie in a 4 second drag race, why bother with a heavy old battery?) Or even have races based on real driving conditions rather than just raw speed, ie throw in some traffic lights, and boom gates and do more gymkhana style street racing. Just as steam replace the horse, and petrol replaced steam, soon electricity will replace petrol. And those who grow up around it will treat us like those black-faced old men of the past.
Noah wasn't in a flood because that is a fairy tale... Also the definition of "Flood Plain" may differ based on location. Where I live it is a legal term used as a covenant on property to distinguish land at high risk of regular floods (usually from rising rivers/poor drainage, so as to advise both potential buyers and insurance companies of risk. I'm not aware of any coastal property falling under this definition.
You do have free right to it. Keep it in jar under your mattress and you will pay no fees (I'm not even going to get into inflation). Of course if you want to be able to move money around quickly and easily, that is convenient and offers an alternative to jars and/or pockets filled with paper then there are businesses out there that cater to that. We call them banks, and for a small fee they offer money related services. I still don't get how you think they should give you this service for free? Do you expect someone to mow your lawns for free too? I mean they are your lawns right? How about cleaning your car? Should the car wash guy clean your car for free because after all it is your car? You have free access to your money, just don't give it to someone who you signed a contract with to offer you a fee based service, then complain when they charge you a fee for the service.
I have a theory on this. Why is it that countries like NZ and Iceland etc are nice and friendly while others are angry and hostile. Two key components, size and isolation. Being small means you are always manageable and less prone to corruption (yeah it's still there, but at a far smaller scale as to not be an major issue). Being small also means everyone knows each other, so it's harder to be a jerk when your decision directly affect people you actually know. Isolation creates the benefit of not having every Tom, Dick or Mohammed coming through the place trying to take pieces of it. It offers no strategic value so all the jerks focus on bigger targets, leaving you with only lightweight jerks. Neither of these things are going to change in the short or medium term, so I wouldn't worry too much. One outcome of this idea, is that along the lines of the Monkeysphere theory, maybe countries like the US and China are too big? Maybe the best path for humanity is smaller countries and/or states? Corruption seems to be a function of size, so if the world was divided into NZ/Iceland type chunks would we all be better off?
Maybe I'm mistaken but isn't this precisely how politics works?
Just do it the easy way. Buy some guns, give them to some inner city kids, let nature take it's course...
We had armed robbery just last night here in Sydney. Cops were tipped off so we're waiting for the strike and arrested all the offenders, one of which was a cop. Fuck the Police. The highest profile case on at the moment is a murder case of a young drug dealer, the two defendents being ex-cops with a history of drugs and violence who thought they'd get some free drugs. Fuck the Police. Who is going to clean this mess up?
Same here. But I'll probably lie on the couch for a bit until it goes away...
In theory they shouldn't be allowed to use a radio either. The issue is a physical limitation which prevents a human brain from talking and operating a machine at the same time. Don't have the reference but the brain just can't deal with those two task at once, hence the law. I see no reason why cops are exempt. Just like seat belts, physics doesn't discriminate based on a uniform.
We had a case here while back (too lazy to look it up) where a cop shot another cop during a raid (accidentally, through being completely incompetent with a firearm) and killed him. The dude getting his house raided got convicted of manslaughter for letting it happen, and the cop who pulled the trigger got an award for bravery or something equally ridiculous. What fucking bizarro universe are we living in here?
I have the same experience. You very rarely meet one who was smart enough to finish high school. That can't be a good thing...
And let's face it, it's only boobs. Everyone has them, it's not like it's photos of her murdering babies...
How does this get modded insightful? If you rely purely on paper money, someone has to make that money. Who pays for that? It ain't free buddy, we all pay for that through taxes. Who pays to deliver that money to you? Who pays for the cash register to store it in? Who pays for the mattress you keep it under? Everything has a cost, just because you realise this, doesn't make it any less true. A bank offers convenience, and it too comes at a cost. I'll leave to you to decide if that cost is more or less than all the tin foil hats you spend your paper money on....
Not just coffee, but the clock. Prior to the 19th century most humans didn't have a concept of time. There was dawn, dusk and noon and that was it. There was no meeting at 8am, or conference at 3pm, you just did shit when you felt like it. When you go on holiday to some third world island you get a taste of what it was like. They just do stuff whenever they get around to it, and strangely when most people go on holiday they always feel a whole lot better.
Menial tasks are designed to instill discipline. Move a pallet of bricks from one side of the yard to another one brick at a time. Now move it back again. It teaches you do what you are told so that when it comes time to pull the trigger you do it. Objection to authority is precisely the opposite of what they teach in the military.
I took a month off and helped my builder build a new basement under our existing house. It was far more interesting than any IT project I've ever worked on. Figuring out how to dig a hole under and existing dwelling, run drainage so it didn't flood, all the electrical and plumbing challenges, design of doors and windows, and now the interior decoration. If I didn't get paid three times as much as a tradie, I'd swap jobs in a second.
most of us got into technical fields to avoid doing manual labor in the first place, let alone that which doesn't make a positive contribution.
I got into Tech because it paid heaps more than everything else. I'm quite happy to mow lawns or dig a hole if I get paid the same. In fact my last contract I was able to work from home 2 days a week. I was the highest paid gardener in the country :)
My bank gives me really good services, I'm more than happy to pay a fair price for these...
But you don't get it, you're supposed to be afraid so that you feel better about buying whatever product the fear-mongers are selling. I have open Wi-Fi too. For fun I monitored it to see who was connecting and what type of traffic I'd get, but after a month or so I gave up because no-one connected to it. Even years later I've never gone over my quota so what do I care if someone gets some free internet?
Seems to be the big flaw in Google's Web-everything strategy, there are times we we can't be online, so need an offline option. I was in Indonesia a couple of months ago and didn't want to pay exorbitant roaming charges, so took my phone, but only to use the wi-fi at the hotel and emergency purposes. I tried to cache a few maps for use when venturing out but it didn't work. Google products are mostly shit. If they didn't have Search and Maps I doubt they'd still be around. If Nokia can kill their Maps market, then we only need someone to come up with a competitive Search app and we can kiss their hairy little arses goodbye. Seriously, how hard can it be to make decent Search?
That was my experience. The forced Skype move was just as awesome as Windows 8. Can MS do any worse?