I've watched a yes man given a shot because he judged correctly or got lucky and told the CEO exactly what he wanted to hear. It didn't end well, but it got them 6 months in a position that he wouldn't have had if the other managers weren't playing little emperor games themselves.
Yes, the current CEO is a Toyoda. But the previous 3 were not. The current and past two presidents have not been Toyodas. The current and past two Chairmen have not been Toyodas.
That said the head of Toyota is still from the Toyoda family.
While that is true, IIRC that is only because the Japanese have a tradition of adult adoption. In short, the most promising executive gets adopted into the family of the current head of the company.
It depends. What is the material? They can probably use plastic if they are just for decoration. Sure, it will be more expensive than injection molding in quantity, but they aren't doing any real quantity. You could also vacuum form sheet plastic. None of this stuff is stratospherically expensive. If they are willing to have a carpenter come in and do stuff with wood, then they are already spending some coin on this project.
I'm betting it gets complicated since Ohio can control vehicle registrations. Try buying an out-of-state vehicle without CA emissions and registering it in CA, for example. I understand that is not a perfect analogy, but I can see how it isn't just a simple interstate commerce thing.
Interesting idea, but given that it takes the average 3D printer hours to create something only a few inches across it's not terribly practical.
Maybe these hobbyist printers, but the industrial-grade printers can churn out a lot more than that. We rapid prototype critical parts of our product*, and we sell tens of thousands each year.
*Technically, we are just rapid prototyping the shape for the investment casting.
Anyway, the ideas is sound - just make pretty cable trays that fit within the aesthetic of the office. A competent cabinet maker should be able to make nice woodwork, and if the space is more industrial you can make something out of metal or just modify existing trays.
I guess I better order it by bike courier instead of the shop's free delivery. Right?
I couldn't stand paying $30 (!!!) for a pizza only to have it show up lukewarm. I used to go get it myself:) I used delivery for sushi, Indian, and Malay food, which weren't so time sensitive. Most of the time we wanted to get the heck out of the tiny apartment...
(As an aside, I'm amused that it is only $10 for 10 blocks: Do you mean to say that I can call a hardware store, put some goods on my account and arrange to have them delivered by bike courier at the rate you specify? Or takeout food? It sounds ridiculously cheap for a place as expensive as Manhattan. I assume tips are expected.)
A lot of take-out does free delivery with guys on bikes in Manhattan. I definitely used to tip them well... they earn it. You can "rent" a bike messenger from the company for a flat $30/hour, so figure they pay them considerably less than that. Those guys are crazy to watch. The take-out guys just plod along, but the couriers dart all over the place.
That all said and reconsidered: Maybe it could work in Manhattan. Or even small-town Ohio (if said small town is close to a major highway). Rooftop space and electricity are universally pretty cheap almost anywhere, for this amount of space and electricity.
People on here are probably right - it probably is mostly a publicity stunt. But it is not so crazy that you don't sit there and puzzle over the numbers a little.:)
For my family photos (and increasingly, videos too), I come close. I have a Mac with the photos on it. I use Unison to back the photos up to a FreeBSD server in the basement running ZFS. Unison is my choice because it does a hash of the source and destination and lets you know if the source has changed. I have caught corruption this way - but fortunately I was using Unison and so I could restore from backup. The same Mac also runs Time Machine and backs up the pictures through that mechanism. For offsite backup, I run Crashplan on the same machine. Finally, whenever I burn home movies to DVD, I create a directory on there and stuff it with photos from the same time period. Then I send these disks to the relatives, who unwittingly participate in my distributed backup scheme.
If I lose those photos, it was just not meant to be:)
You can't patent published stuff, so open is the way to go. If you are worried that people will profit off of your open knowledge, then you should have kept it secret or filed for a patent yourself.
Prize money. Put up a $5 billion prize for the first company to get past the FDA.
Of course, this will provide an incentive for them to hide bad long-term results, but hey, we have a little of that now and decent systems in place to deal with it. Pay out only partially with full payment after 5 years of use or something if you really want to.
Fair enough. That is still a rather expensive option compared to standard delivery. Bike delivery in Manhattan runs around $10 for a 10 block radius, with an extra buck and a half for each 10 blocks. I don't think they guarantee 30 minutes, but if you pay $40 + $5 for each 10 blocks they will deliver it immediately.
What rules? That's the whole problem right now - the rules are unclear, non-uniform, and burdensome. There are certain things a federal government is meant for. Regulating inter-state commerce is one of the most basic.
You do understand that this finding makes biology as a science much harder?
Is it perverse that I find this sort of thing exciting? It's this sort of thing that reminds us that they will be laughing at our level of scientific understanding 100 years from now.
It is a complete nightmare. I think the federal government should collect a flat percentage (something like 5%) and then distribute it to the customer's locality (state, local, whatever). "Use tax" is the kind of stupid that only a government could enact, and making online retailers deal with so many arcane rules is overly burdensome, IMHO.
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Fine. Get a law passed to that effect.
I've watched a yes man given a shot because he judged correctly or got lucky and told the CEO exactly what he wanted to hear. It didn't end well, but it got them 6 months in a position that he wouldn't have had if the other managers weren't playing little emperor games themselves.
That's all well and good if you don't have a co-worker who will go to the CEO and explain how if HE were in charge, the printers would be working.
BTW, after a little Googling, it was the Suzuki family and company that I was thinking of originally.
You won't need the cops to kill you :)
Yes, the current CEO is a Toyoda. But the previous 3 were not. The current and past two presidents have not been Toyodas. The current and past two Chairmen have not been Toyodas.
That said the head of Toyota is still from the Toyoda family.
While that is true, IIRC that is only because the Japanese have a tradition of adult adoption. In short, the most promising executive gets adopted into the family of the current head of the company.
First step, go out and buy anything with carbs and points.
It depends. What is the material? They can probably use plastic if they are just for decoration. Sure, it will be more expensive than injection molding in quantity, but they aren't doing any real quantity. You could also vacuum form sheet plastic. None of this stuff is stratospherically expensive. If they are willing to have a carpenter come in and do stuff with wood, then they are already spending some coin on this project.
I'm betting it gets complicated since Ohio can control vehicle registrations. Try buying an out-of-state vehicle without CA emissions and registering it in CA, for example. I understand that is not a perfect analogy, but I can see how it isn't just a simple interstate commerce thing.
Interesting idea, but given that it takes the average 3D printer hours to create something only a few inches across it's not terribly practical.
Maybe these hobbyist printers, but the industrial-grade printers can churn out a lot more than that. We rapid prototype critical parts of our product*, and we sell tens of thousands each year.
*Technically, we are just rapid prototyping the shape for the investment casting.
Anyway, the ideas is sound - just make pretty cable trays that fit within the aesthetic of the office. A competent cabinet maker should be able to make nice woodwork, and if the space is more industrial you can make something out of metal or just modify existing trays.
I guess I better order it by bike courier instead of the shop's free delivery. Right?
I couldn't stand paying $30 (!!!) for a pizza only to have it show up lukewarm. I used to go get it myself :) I used delivery for sushi, Indian, and Malay food, which weren't so time sensitive. Most of the time we wanted to get the heck out of the tiny apartment...
Well, so far Amazon isn't a restaurant, so I don't think they will fear the prepared foods taxes :)
(As an aside, I'm amused that it is only $10 for 10 blocks: Do you mean to say that I can call a hardware store, put some goods on my account and arrange to have them delivered by bike courier at the rate you specify? Or takeout food? It sounds ridiculously cheap for a place as expensive as Manhattan. I assume tips are expected.)
A lot of take-out does free delivery with guys on bikes in Manhattan. I definitely used to tip them well... they earn it. You can "rent" a bike messenger from the company for a flat $30/hour, so figure they pay them considerably less than that. Those guys are crazy to watch. The take-out guys just plod along, but the couriers dart all over the place.
That all said and reconsidered: Maybe it could work in Manhattan. Or even small-town Ohio (if said small town is close to a major highway). Rooftop space and electricity are universally pretty cheap almost anywhere, for this amount of space and electricity.
People on here are probably right - it probably is mostly a publicity stunt. But it is not so crazy that you don't sit there and puzzle over the numbers a little. :)
I bet there are some sewage treatment plants pumping millions of gallons of fresh water into the sea, though.
Most of the hybrids are powered by gasoline.
No, but you can come close.
For my family photos (and increasingly, videos too), I come close. I have a Mac with the photos on it. I use Unison to back the photos up to a FreeBSD server in the basement running ZFS. Unison is my choice because it does a hash of the source and destination and lets you know if the source has changed. I have caught corruption this way - but fortunately I was using Unison and so I could restore from backup. The same Mac also runs Time Machine and backs up the pictures through that mechanism. For offsite backup, I run Crashplan on the same machine. Finally, whenever I burn home movies to DVD, I create a directory on there and stuff it with photos from the same time period. Then I send these disks to the relatives, who unwittingly participate in my distributed backup scheme.
If I lose those photos, it was just not meant to be :)
I'd have to disagree. ;p
But seriously, it is hard to think of a state with more oppressive taxes than New York. I honestly don't know why the people there put up with it.
You can't patent published stuff, so open is the way to go. If you are worried that people will profit off of your open knowledge, then you should have kept it secret or filed for a patent yourself.
Prize money. Put up a $5 billion prize for the first company to get past the FDA.
Of course, this will provide an incentive for them to hide bad long-term results, but hey, we have a little of that now and decent systems in place to deal with it. Pay out only partially with full payment after 5 years of use or something if you really want to.
Fair enough. That is still a rather expensive option compared to standard delivery. Bike delivery in Manhattan runs around $10 for a 10 block radius, with an extra buck and a half for each 10 blocks. I don't think they guarantee 30 minutes, but if you pay $40 + $5 for each 10 blocks they will deliver it immediately.
What rules? That's the whole problem right now - the rules are unclear, non-uniform, and burdensome. There are certain things a federal government is meant for. Regulating inter-state commerce is one of the most basic.
On the Origin of Species even acknowledges "use and disuse inheritance".
You do understand that this finding makes biology as a science much harder?
Is it perverse that I find this sort of thing exciting? It's this sort of thing that reminds us that they will be laughing at our level of scientific understanding 100 years from now.
It is a complete nightmare. I think the federal government should collect a flat percentage (something like 5%) and then distribute it to the customer's locality (state, local, whatever). "Use tax" is the kind of stupid that only a government could enact, and making online retailers deal with so many arcane rules is overly burdensome, IMHO.