>>My Linux boxes much more usable and easy to troubleshoot when there is a problem.
you're missing the point.... for most users, not having the problem in the first place is worth far more than "ease of debugging" after the problem has happened. I run Linux on my own machines, and force it on my teenagers, but never in a million years would I try to pass it off on my elderly parents.
Hurricane Sandy in 2012-- a foot of water in the basement and climbing. Not a pump to be had-- hours of phone calls revealed that I was last in line at the sump pump store; even if I could have gotten a pump there was no electricity. Realized that we lived on a hill; set up a gravity siphon using 200' of garden hose.
Woke up the next morning to a dry basement, power came back a few hours later.
Nice analogy... if you want a real world example of this happening, consider the storage facilities for fine wine in Manhattan-- flooded during hurricane Sandy For (largely unexplained) reasons the storage facilities still won't allow the customers access to (or even look at) the wine they're supposedly storing...
parent is a moron..... yes, the marginal cost of adding another connection to a pipe that's already buried in the street is (as you state) fairly low. On the other hand, digging up (and repaving) a couple miles of street to install the pipe in the first place is fantastically expensive.
It's mass production when the resources required for development and testing are much smaller than the sales.
For instance, reliability testing for something as complicated as a cell phone should require tens or even hundreds of units. Electrical testing, certifications, developer's units, demos, bench units, betas, it all adds up, and I'd be very surprised if the minimum number isn't in the hundreds. You can always scrimp on testing to save on development cost, but that tends to be a result in (severe) quality problems.
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1) blatantly self promoting slashdot "article"
2) magic....
3) profit!
>>My Linux boxes much more usable and easy to troubleshoot when there is a problem.
you're missing the point.... for most users, not having the problem in the first place is worth far more than "ease of debugging" after the problem has happened. I run Linux on my own machines, and force it on my teenagers, but never in a million years would I try to pass it off on my elderly parents.
McDonalds eventually gave up counting and settled in at "billions and billions".... how long before Microsoft does the same?
Perhaps we should require an explanation using the "ten hundred" most common words......
Consider this an enthusiastic plug for Randall Munroe's (of XKCD fame) most recent book. "Thing Explainer-- Complicated stuff in simple words"
two possibilities:
1) you're making it up
2) you just violated the NDA that you signed
Given that engineers a fond of food, clothing, housing and beer, they needed more funding
Hurricane Sandy in 2012--
a foot of water in the basement and climbing.
Not a pump to be had-- hours of phone calls revealed that I was last in line at the sump pump store; even if I could have gotten a pump there was no electricity.
Realized that we lived on a hill; set up a gravity siphon using 200' of garden hose.
Woke up the next morning to a dry basement, power came back a few hours later.
use it most days; a tool from several millennia in the past
perhaps slightly newer: knife
even newer, but still pretty darn old: pliers
in the ice storm of 1998, we were without power for 10 days. Honda is my friend....
Solar in the ice and snow strikes me as a dicey proposition
TFA makes much of the Tesla battery as a replacement for backup generators.... at 7kWh, it's equivalent to about 4 hours from a low end generator.
Not anything that's going to replace my Honda and it's 20 gallons of gas any time soon.
"reasonably well", which translates to "OK, as long as the files are simple and you don't care what they look like"
Clearly the Times is doing all the work.....
>>Economists have worked out that the cost of regulations in the US drives the median income down from $113K to $42K
wow..... "citation needed", as they say in wiki-land
clippety clop
Tortured sentence structure anyone? Or are they really are landfilling babies at the experimental mushroom farm???
Not that we ever expected much from the editors at /., but one could hope for a bare minimum of literacy.
EFF is doing great work, send them some money!
wow... must have struck a never someplace... my trivial comment has been modded 8 times.
but I'd like to go on record as joining the beta sucks bandwagon
Nice analogy... if you want a real world example of this happening, consider the storage facilities for fine wine in Manhattan-- flooded during hurricane Sandy
For (largely unexplained) reasons the storage facilities still won't allow the customers access to (or even look at) the wine they're supposedly storing...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12...
parent is a moron.....
yes, the marginal cost of adding another connection to a pipe that's already buried in the street is (as you state) fairly low.
On the other hand, digging up (and repaving) a couple miles of street to install the pipe in the first place is fantastically expensive.
OK, they're off by a few months, but my first reaction to the headline was definitely "clearly, this is a joke...."
It's mass production when the resources required for development and testing are much smaller than the sales.
For instance, reliability testing for something as complicated as a cell phone should require tens or even hundreds of units. Electrical testing, certifications, developer's units, demos, bench units, betas, it all adds up, and I'd be very surprised if the minimum number isn't in the hundreds. You can always scrimp on testing to save on development cost, but that tends to be a result in (severe) quality problems.
they might have a shot with 20k, but 200 is ridiculous.... it's closer to the sample size that one would use for for pre-production testing.
Successful business leader XXX announces that his college program (or lack thereof) is better than any other....
is that something like a brazilian wax?