The disadvantage is in the opportunity cost. You could have spent the time you dedicated to memorizing words to becoming better at math or, I don't know, figuring out how to get laid.
If a life form existed on earth with oil based protoplasm rather than water, you wouldn't need the dispersant because that life form could live inside the volume of the oil as opposed to upon the surface...
So they put all their faith in a blowout valve that apparently had an unanticipated failure mode. That's not risk mitigation, that's as assumption that, since you don't recognize the risk, there is no risk.
One layer of protection here was far to thin. In Norway and Brazil they require that wells also have remote control shutoffs. That would have been another layer of protection.
Keeping extra domes around would have been another layer of protection - a relatively low cost "when all else fails" measure. Seems like they didn't do it because they had too much confidence that all else couldn't possibly fail.
I've been amazed at the Oil industries apparent inability to do any contingency planning. If this dome technology is known to be the best quick-fix for containing this type of oil leak, they should have had a few of them already built and sitting on a back lot in Port Arthur, just in case.
Instead, they have to construct them from scratch when the emergency presents itself. That's resulted in a huge waste of time as the clock is ticking and the environment becomes more and more damaged.
Having spares would have been a cheap insurance policy. Don't these people even think about risk mitigation?
Depends on how easy the crap is to swap out of the bag.
$200 and no ability to fix things is way worse than $99 and an easy way to replace what breaks. Especially in Africa, where everything breaks, and jury-rigged fixes are the norm.
Original releases of everything are crap. Vista right now is actually quite solid. I've been quite happy with Vista 64, and I really don't understand all the hate.
Price isn't the only thing keeping OS X down. Some people avoid it on the general principal that its a bad idea to sacrifice useful features at the alter of eye candy.
I would never use just client side validation, but thats for security reasons, not just because I want to be nice to folks who won't use javascript.
I was thinking more along the lines of population of page content using AJAX calls. Yes, you could design an entire parallel system of non-javascript content delivery, but doing so encumbers your product with additional support overhead and development time.
If your customer feels that failing gracefully is a worthwhile investment of time and money, great, but that should be their decision. And its a decision that should be made for pragmatic reasons, not simply because it's grandfathered in as a best practice from years ago.
There is absolutely no excuse for writing a page that doesn't 'fail gracefully' when javascript isn't present.
Yes there is. Making your page fail gracefully takes extra time and resources, which could be put to better use than supporting the 1% of users who choose to handicap their browsers by turning off javascript.
Failing gracefully is an important concern, but its not the only concern, and should be balanced against other priorities.
This is only true of Toyota-style Hybrids. Honda's hybrids, by contrast, gain their gas efficiency through having a much smaller engine and using the battery to add extra power when needed.
So your argument would be likely true for a Prius, but in this case it does not apply to an Insight.
Why build a new city in Florida when all the ones they already have are chock full of empty, foreclosed houses? Its a lot more green to live in the places you've already built than it is to build new places. Putting solar panels on your new city doesn't change that equation.
Tell the suits you are implementing state-of-the art ROT-26 encryption on everything. Take a month off. Come back, pronounce it complete, and ask for a raise.
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We pay a one time $40 per gigabyte as the capital cost of acquiring the storage. There is no monthly cost. I think $40 is still way too much.
and no disadvantages.
The disadvantage is in the opportunity cost. You could have spent the time you dedicated to memorizing words to becoming better at math or, I don't know, figuring out how to get laid.
Well, obviously they also need a grammar checker too. "Your" and "there" are spelled perfectly fine in your example, they are merely misused.
Btw - viewers are very rarely "customers". Certainly for TV programming they are not, the advertisers are.
And yet, my cable bill arrives every month...
If a life form existed on earth with oil based protoplasm rather than water, you wouldn't need the dispersant because that life form could live inside the volume of the oil as opposed to upon the surface...
Like maybe some of these buggers?
So they put all their faith in a blowout valve that apparently had an unanticipated failure mode. That's not risk mitigation, that's as assumption that, since you don't recognize the risk, there is no risk.
One layer of protection here was far to thin. In Norway and Brazil they require that wells also have remote control shutoffs. That would have been another layer of protection.
Keeping extra domes around would have been another layer of protection - a relatively low cost "when all else fails" measure. Seems like they didn't do it because they had too much confidence that all else couldn't possibly fail.
They were wrong.
Soap + undisclosed proprietary chemicals that are known to bio-accumulate. It will be nice having that enter the food chain.
I've been amazed at the Oil industries apparent inability to do any contingency planning. If this dome technology is known to be the best quick-fix for containing this type of oil leak, they should have had a few of them already built and sitting on a back lot in Port Arthur, just in case.
Instead, they have to construct them from scratch when the emergency presents itself. That's resulted in a huge waste of time as the clock is ticking and the environment becomes more and more damaged.
Having spares would have been a cheap insurance policy. Don't these people even think about risk mitigation?
...and your father smelt of elderberry!
I've been quite happy with Coffee Break French.. That company has lots of other language podcasts as well.
The Carcassone Big Box will run you $90. Worth it.
Depends on how easy the crap is to swap out of the bag.
$200 and no ability to fix things is way worse than $99 and an easy way to replace what breaks. Especially in Africa, where everything breaks, and jury-rigged fixes are the norm.
This is the attitude that makes Murdoch think he can get away with putting all his content behind pay walls.
This move undermines the whole model free content supported by advertising.... so its a wet-dream for Murdoch and his pay wall.
> Vista original release = crap.
Original releases of everything are crap. Vista right now is actually quite solid. I've been quite happy with Vista 64, and I really don't understand all the hate.
Price isn't the only thing keeping OS X down. Some people avoid it on the general principal that its a bad idea to sacrifice useful features at the alter of eye candy.
I would never use just client side validation, but thats for security reasons, not just because I want to be nice to folks who won't use javascript.
I was thinking more along the lines of population of page content using AJAX calls. Yes, you could design an entire parallel system of non-javascript content delivery, but doing so encumbers your product with additional support overhead and development time.
If your customer feels that failing gracefully is a worthwhile investment of time and money, great, but that should be their decision. And its a decision that should be made for pragmatic reasons, not simply because it's grandfathered in as a best practice from years ago.
There is absolutely no excuse for writing a page that doesn't 'fail gracefully' when javascript isn't present.
Yes there is. Making your page fail gracefully takes extra time and resources, which could be put to better use than supporting the 1% of users who choose to handicap their browsers by turning off javascript.
Failing gracefully is an important concern, but its not the only concern, and should be balanced against other priorities.
The engine only runs when needed
This is only true of Toyota-style Hybrids. Honda's hybrids, by contrast, gain their gas efficiency through having a much smaller engine and using the battery to add extra power when needed.
So your argument would be likely true for a Prius, but in this case it does not apply to an Insight.
Commodity hardware
Full virtualization at the OS level
And a second, mirrored data center on the other side of the country
Why build a new city in Florida when all the ones they already have are chock full of empty, foreclosed houses? Its a lot more green to live in the places you've already built than it is to build new places. Putting solar panels on your new city doesn't change that equation.
Similar size, meaning in this case, "small enough you don't notice the dam thing".
The 4GB Sansa Clip is a similar size, $18 cheaper, similar battery life, has a small screen, and doesn't lock you into the iTunes ecosystem.
Tell the suits you are implementing state-of-the art ROT-26 encryption on everything. Take a month off. Come back, pronounce it complete, and ask for a raise.
Or maybe he just can't stand the frigging "wheel" and wants an MP3 player that has, you know, an off button.
.... everybody knows that killer robots are the real menace.