One can only hope that the college bubble bursts like all others do. College costs are more than slightly linked to the housing boom. People could draw more credit from their house than before in order to send to ludicrously priced colleges, so tutions went crazy. This is no longer the case. Now its a matter of convincing the administrations that they know longer have the money pool available and need to actually think about running on a realistic budget.
Unfortunately, this sort of thing is slow to react. I'm just hoping it actually does before my daughter starts in 4 years. Depending what happens after this sugar high in the market today there may still be a lot of people who are down 50% in their college funds. And with banks not lending its going to have to affect tuitions at some point. All bubbles burst at some point, even when it comes to providing for your kids who deserver everything they want.
Engine braking is poor form and retarded until you find yourself towing something down a large hill and lose your brakes because you've boiled the brake fluid.
Do people honestly think that the auto industry hadn't figured all this out already? Or do they think that they just randomly puts parts together and whatever turns out is it. The auto industry has far more data to back up there decision choices than 40 people. They have 50+ years of it and millions of dollars worth. This is the sort of thing that makes academia look like a joke. What next, a 40 person panel that concludes that most people prefer warm showers to cold. There is a reason the meaner cars currently look mean. Because research has shown that people who buy certain types of cars have certain images they want to appear. Its not all by accident. And those who want to buy a prius want to project a friendlier image.
I'm sure I'll be labeled as a troll here, but I really loathe the grouping of IT and CS. While there is a little bit of union of the two, your majority of IT 'professionals' are corporate help desk drones who wouldn't know a byte from a cow and consider memory and disk space to be the same thing. For the most part the skill sets are completely different as are the job markets. You can probably turn any business major into an IT professional, you can't say the same thing for CS, at least if its a traditional CS program. Most of IT does not program, they do trouble tickets or screw up project management all day. Oh sure, there are some exceptions. Usually 1 or 2 in an IT department who actually know a thing or two at a CS level, but that's about it.
Where I graduated we had 3 programs. MIS, CS, and Comp Eng (CE). CS and CE shared some classes, MIS didn't. Don't mean to belittle, they each have there place, but lets not muddy the waters too much with direct comparisons. Especially when talking about job hiring ratios and starting salary. Not too many people who had a major that including something along hte line of Excel 101 start at $60k/year.
no, its price. Most people could care less about DRM and it will never affect them anyway. Its all about price. The players are cost prohibitive and so are the discs. Even at costco they run >$5 more that the DVD equiv title. Don't bother with the 'I buy them at xxx for $2'. Most people don't shop there. People simply don't care about the added benefits. Hell, I bet if you took a survey a lot of people are still confused and could care less about 4:3 vs 16:9 formats. I know my mother doesn't know or care about the difference and only bought a widescreen because it fit in her cabinet well. When she goes to blockbuster more often then not she comes home with the 4:3 version when the widescreen was available. And she doesn't even care. To the majority of consumers its just the boob tube, not some super sophisticated home entertainment system.
not to mention everyone being worried in general about the economy. DVD/bluray are totally bought from disposable income, which people are running short on thanks to inflation. Just bad timing all around
Cheaper to keep. Every hour I waste cleaning house costs more than it does to keep it stored. Storage continues to get cheaper, salaries typically don't. Sure, that $1.25M is a big scary number. But nothing compared to the salaries/benefits at a 5000 person company. Now you can argue the cost of data retrieval goes way up because chances are it'll take a hell of a lot longer to find, but that's a different argument altogether and you can just as easily question what the cost of not being able to recover something that was cleaned by accident is.
Unfortunately, it appears he lost his sense of humor somewhere in the 70s. Scott Adams probably has a ton of emails from him saying that Dilbert should really find another company to work for.
Boss says, 'You want to be paid to do that when you haven't even recovered the email for me that I deleted last week? You aren't paid to play. Dance monkey boy, dance. And don't forget your pager when you leave tonight.'
Given that this article makes absolutely no sense, here's my interpretation. Samsung sees no future in blue ray, so will not invest a whole lot of money in developing a bunch of players (which stinks because thats what we need to drive down prices). Instead they are taking that money and concentrating on OLED displays, hopeing there is more money for them in the display business than in the player business.
He's at work. He wasn't asked, he was told. People for some reason like to be tasked to do things not told, it makes them feel special. I do agree, it's an annoying word that was made up to make people feel more important than they really are. People need to get over themselves and just dance monkey dance.
Kidding asside, I tend to agree. This certainly can't be all of the design documents. 115M of documentation? Big whoop. There's no way you could be given this stuff and be expected to duplicate the end result. I don't mean to knock what it is, but I really tire of the exagerated and over the top wording in the summaries.
Someone who is so desperate to get a story on Slashdot that they need some excuse to bring up a subject that has been hashed 50 times before. It was either this or some stupid Ask Slashdot like, 'Should I buy this CD or is the format dead.'
Except in ensuring a legal start. These need to be done by timer. It'd be intersting to see what the individual times bettwen leaving hte platform and wall touch are. Was Phelps the faster swimmer or starter, not that it matters other than being academic? You can't tell without synching with the start timer.
Are you kidding? It's called industry at a fairly large plant, ~3000 people. You're running some large machinery, AC, desktop and mainframes, and don't forget well over 100k florescent bulbs, 3 shifts a day. Really it comes down to under $100/mo per person, less than I spend for my home in the summer. And we are not the largest of campuses in the corporation. It adds up in a hurry.
The upside however is that you can jumpstart the transition without having to create an entirely new infrastructure. As new forms of electricty come on line you can take off line the older plants. The problem cannot be solved all at once, and moving to electric cars is a pretty good starting point because we can start doing it now, where as the future of electricity production is still in the air, but we know it will happen. The stars will never align themselves so that everything can be done at once and just click into place. You have to start somewhere, and electricty is always going to there, unlike moving to something like H which may or may not really be possible or happen. Of course we do have to commit to system upgrades to handle all these cars straining an already old system.
So how many cars can charge off your circuit before it blows? You're talking probably a major electrical upgrade if you want to accomodate more than 2 or 3 cars. As is my employer spends over $250k/mo for electricity. As incentive to get us to turn off our lights they post the bills every few months. I'm sure they would be all for having a few thousand cars charging on top of that.
All they really care about is price point. When players are sub $100 and disks are $17.99 for a new movie then people will buy into them. The rest of what you say are simple annoyances. 99% of the people wouldn't know what DRM meant if asked, and most really don't even care if explained to them what it means. Skip and menu locks are annoyances but people will deal with it. They occure on DVDs also. Price is all that matters.
Booked for ones of the last shuttle launches is the Sabatier unit. This takes CO2 from the scrubbers and H from the OGA and produces H2O and methane. The H2O is then fed back into the OGA, methane is dumped. Though not needed for the ISS to function, it's a testbed for a WPA -> OGA -> SAB process which through normal water intake by the astros would allow for >=80% of the oxygen needed for a Mars trip. Or so we hope. Until then the H is useless as just about anything you'd want it for requires O2 and it's rather dangerous to keep around.
The OGA has been up there for a year or so. Every few months when a progress brings some bags of water we go through a week of activations. This was actually the big reason that they had to fix the solar arrays last year. The OGA needs a decent amount of power and typically runs only during day time. About 60 out of every 90 minutes.
Obviously this is more complicated than the article has dumbed it down to be. There are quite a bit of unknowns that probably come into play. First, the system probably has very limited or no way at all to handle the back pay portion. That alone could take a little bit of time and nobody would say they could add something like that to a state wide payroll system the size of CA in a few weeks. Next, you need to try to figure out how to handle peoples 401k contributions, health insurance, healtch savings account deductions and probably at least a few other as well. What happens when peoples salaries no longer cover their health care monthly deduction? It'll take weeks/months for them to even figure out all the possible ramifications, let alone get a spec written.
I really think that this is a case of some inadequate reporting. We have to assume this is not as simple as we are led to believe. That being said, I think he is definately using some scare tactics, but I don't think we have all the information either.
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One can only hope that the college bubble bursts like all others do. College costs are more than slightly linked to the housing boom. People could draw more credit from their house than before in order to send to ludicrously priced colleges, so tutions went crazy. This is no longer the case. Now its a matter of convincing the administrations that they know longer have the money pool available and need to actually think about running on a realistic budget.
Unfortunately, this sort of thing is slow to react. I'm just hoping it actually does before my daughter starts in 4 years. Depending what happens after this sugar high in the market today there may still be a lot of people who are down 50% in their college funds. And with banks not lending its going to have to affect tuitions at some point. All bubbles burst at some point, even when it comes to providing for your kids who deserver everything they want.
Engine braking is poor form and retarded until you find yourself towing something down a large hill and lose your brakes because you've boiled the brake fluid.
Do people honestly think that the auto industry hadn't figured all this out already? Or do they think that they just randomly puts parts together and whatever turns out is it. The auto industry has far more data to back up there decision choices than 40 people. They have 50+ years of it and millions of dollars worth. This is the sort of thing that makes academia look like a joke. What next, a 40 person panel that concludes that most people prefer warm showers to cold. There is a reason the meaner cars currently look mean. Because research has shown that people who buy certain types of cars have certain images they want to appear. Its not all by accident. And those who want to buy a prius want to project a friendlier image.
I'm sure I'll be labeled as a troll here, but I really loathe the grouping of IT and CS. While there is a little bit of union of the two, your majority of IT 'professionals' are corporate help desk drones who wouldn't know a byte from a cow and consider memory and disk space to be the same thing. For the most part the skill sets are completely different as are the job markets. You can probably turn any business major into an IT professional, you can't say the same thing for CS, at least if its a traditional CS program. Most of IT does not program, they do trouble tickets or screw up project management all day. Oh sure, there are some exceptions. Usually 1 or 2 in an IT department who actually know a thing or two at a CS level, but that's about it.
Where I graduated we had 3 programs. MIS, CS, and Comp Eng (CE). CS and CE shared some classes, MIS didn't. Don't mean to belittle, they each have there place, but lets not muddy the waters too much with direct comparisons. Especially when talking about job hiring ratios and starting salary. Not too many people who had a major that including something along hte line of Excel 101 start at $60k/year.
Oh please. And monkeys might fly out of my butthole, but I still wear pants.
no, its price. Most people could care less about DRM and it will never affect them anyway. Its all about price. The players are cost prohibitive and so are the discs. Even at costco they run >$5 more that the DVD equiv title. Don't bother with the 'I buy them at xxx for $2'. Most people don't shop there. People simply don't care about the added benefits. Hell, I bet if you took a survey a lot of people are still confused and could care less about 4:3 vs 16:9 formats. I know my mother doesn't know or care about the difference and only bought a widescreen because it fit in her cabinet well. When she goes to blockbuster more often then not she comes home with the 4:3 version when the widescreen was available. And she doesn't even care. To the majority of consumers its just the boob tube, not some super sophisticated home entertainment system.
not to mention everyone being worried in general about the economy. DVD/bluray are totally bought from disposable income, which people are running short on thanks to inflation. Just bad timing all around
Cheaper to keep. Every hour I waste cleaning house costs more than it does to keep it stored. Storage continues to get cheaper, salaries typically don't. Sure, that $1.25M is a big scary number. But nothing compared to the salaries/benefits at a 5000 person company. Now you can argue the cost of data retrieval goes way up because chances are it'll take a hell of a lot longer to find, but that's a different argument altogether and you can just as easily question what the cost of not being able to recover something that was cleaned by accident is.
Unfortunately, it appears he lost his sense of humor somewhere in the 70s. Scott Adams probably has a ton of emails from him saying that Dilbert should really find another company to work for.
Boss says, 'You want to be paid to do that when you haven't even recovered the email for me that I deleted last week? You aren't paid to play. Dance monkey boy, dance. And don't forget your pager when you leave tonight.'
Given that this article makes absolutely no sense, here's my interpretation. Samsung sees no future in blue ray, so will not invest a whole lot of money in developing a bunch of players (which stinks because thats what we need to drive down prices). Instead they are taking that money and concentrating on OLED displays, hopeing there is more money for them in the display business than in the player business.
The book is being referenced on the internet. Now it's validated.
Wow, you have multiple girl friends. You rock, but you're also a hog.
He's at work. He wasn't asked, he was told. People for some reason like to be tasked to do things not told, it makes them feel special. I do agree, it's an annoying word that was made up to make people feel more important than they really are. People need to get over themselves and just dance monkey dance.
Episode 12. Turtle enters the game tournament, gets his ass kicked by a 10 year old and they figure out he sucks unless he's high.
It's obvious that the cows control the magnetic field.
Kidding asside, I tend to agree. This certainly can't be all of the design documents. 115M of documentation? Big whoop. There's no way you could be given this stuff and be expected to duplicate the end result. I don't mean to knock what it is, but I really tire of the exagerated and over the top wording in the summaries.
Someone who is so desperate to get a story on Slashdot that they need some excuse to bring up a subject that has been hashed 50 times before. It was either this or some stupid Ask Slashdot like, 'Should I buy this CD or is the format dead.'
Except in ensuring a legal start. These need to be done by timer. It'd be intersting to see what the individual times bettwen leaving hte platform and wall touch are. Was Phelps the faster swimmer or starter, not that it matters other than being academic? You can't tell without synching with the start timer.
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Are you kidding? It's called industry at a fairly large plant, ~3000 people. You're running some large machinery, AC, desktop and mainframes, and don't forget well over 100k florescent bulbs, 3 shifts a day. Really it comes down to under $100/mo per person, less than I spend for my home in the summer. And we are not the largest of campuses in the corporation. It adds up in a hurry.
The upside however is that you can jumpstart the transition without having to create an entirely new infrastructure. As new forms of electricty come on line you can take off line the older plants. The problem cannot be solved all at once, and moving to electric cars is a pretty good starting point because we can start doing it now, where as the future of electricity production is still in the air, but we know it will happen. The stars will never align themselves so that everything can be done at once and just click into place. You have to start somewhere, and electricty is always going to there, unlike moving to something like H which may or may not really be possible or happen. Of course we do have to commit to system upgrades to handle all these cars straining an already old system.
So how many cars can charge off your circuit before it blows? You're talking probably a major electrical upgrade if you want to accomodate more than 2 or 3 cars. As is my employer spends over $250k/mo for electricity. As incentive to get us to turn off our lights they post the bills every few months. I'm sure they would be all for having a few thousand cars charging on top of that.
All they really care about is price point. When players are sub $100 and disks are $17.99 for a new movie then people will buy into them. The rest of what you say are simple annoyances. 99% of the people wouldn't know what DRM meant if asked, and most really don't even care if explained to them what it means. Skip and menu locks are annoyances but people will deal with it. They occure on DVDs also. Price is all that matters.
Booked for ones of the last shuttle launches is the Sabatier unit. This takes CO2 from the scrubbers and H from the OGA and produces H2O and methane. The H2O is then fed back into the OGA, methane is dumped. Though not needed for the ISS to function, it's a testbed for a WPA -> OGA -> SAB process which through normal water intake by the astros would allow for >=80% of the oxygen needed for a Mars trip. Or so we hope. Until then the H is useless as just about anything you'd want it for requires O2 and it's rather dangerous to keep around. The OGA has been up there for a year or so. Every few months when a progress brings some bags of water we go through a week of activations. This was actually the big reason that they had to fix the solar arrays last year. The OGA needs a decent amount of power and typically runs only during day time. About 60 out of every 90 minutes.
Obviously this is more complicated than the article has dumbed it down to be. There are quite a bit of unknowns that probably come into play. First, the system probably has very limited or no way at all to handle the back pay portion. That alone could take a little bit of time and nobody would say they could add something like that to a state wide payroll system the size of CA in a few weeks. Next, you need to try to figure out how to handle peoples 401k contributions, health insurance, healtch savings account deductions and probably at least a few other as well. What happens when peoples salaries no longer cover their health care monthly deduction? It'll take weeks/months for them to even figure out all the possible ramifications, let alone get a spec written.
I really think that this is a case of some inadequate reporting. We have to assume this is not as simple as we are led to believe. That being said, I think he is definately using some scare tactics, but I don't think we have all the information either.