not everyone has time to waste building their own, unless perhaps you're a kid who "got hold of daddy's credit card" and you don't have any real responsibilities.
You don't have time to spend four hours one evening assembling the parts? Not even if it saves you $1,000 off of a similarly configured prebuilt?
This is not even the first slashvertisement for this ugly space inefficient design. I'm not going to link the other one because they don't deserve the clicks.
I'm eligible to disable advertising, but I have not done so because I get at least some enjoyment out of the site and I know they get money for impressions even though I have never clicked on one. But now the Cox Contour advertisment auto starts audio blasting at random times such that I can't leave slashdot running in my browser. That is beyond poor form.
Wow. I literally do no remove my key fob from my pocket at any point when I get into or out of the car. It would take extra effort to take the key out and leave it in the car.
No big trick. They did the same thing when they introduced aribags. These lifesavers were going to decrease insurance premiums dramatically. Unfortunately, they have increased premiums dramatically because when they go off, you have to pay thousands to get them repacked, and plus you are probably badly injured instead of dead, possibly injured by the airbag itself, and your medical bills are higher than they would have been if you didn't have an airbag.
Yes, you have to have comprehensive in order to cover theft. Of course, if you have a loan, the bank will insist on you having theft insurance, but for some reason they are not willing to pay for this coverage of which they are a beneficiary.
My mother had a car stolen out of her garage while she was on vacation. The police actually found it, amazingly, in a park and ride well known to be a dropping off point for cars bound for Mexico. They actually took prints, which almost made me fall over in surprise. They got a match to a guy who was a known car thief. They did not arrest the guy and would not press charges even though my Mom wanted them to. Not only would they not do their job, but they wouldn't even tell my Mom who the perpetrator was so she could do their job for them.
Why waste time dusting for prints when you are not going to follow up?
Fortunately someone taught you that there WAS such an equation so that you would know to look it up in your book or on the internet.
All learning is cumulative. You have to start somewhere and build on it. Giving kids a calculator before they have learned basic math on their own is just a bad idea. What if they fat fingered on their calculator and came up with 10*10=1000? If they didn't know basic math, they wouldn't recognize that this is just an unreasonable answer. Once they know basic math and start doing calculus and trig. They are working on more complicated subject B and having proven they have learned A, they can now use the tool for the A problems that make up subject B.
Kind of like geometry. Once you prove a simple thing, you can use that entire proof as a single step in your next proof. Then THAT more complex proof can be a single step in a very complex proof. And so on.
"if it really costs the company $500 and takes 3 weeks to procure something that Amazon could have on my desk in 24 hours for $100, maybe its not me that should be under pressure to make efficiency savings?"
Our company prices disk storage at $10,000 per terabyte. We are under a lot of pressure to do whatever we can to lower storage utilization, from deleting potentially helpful log files, to deleting data that we often find we need to recreate because somebody needed it. Some people have taken to storing critical data locally on their laptops. There is no backup of local drives. There is a backed up shared drive, but the space is limited to about 3.5 GB per person. Now I know that there is overhead in storage costs, but it seems like 10 times the actual cost of a terabyte drive ought to be a reasonable upper limit, not 200 times.
Two problems.
The employers DO pay taxes at about the same level and percentage as they have done for at least the last 60 years.
The school systems budget per student is at an all time high, however, very little of that gets to the student due to a several thousand percent growth in administrative overhead.
In the 1950s schools were funded much like today, through property and sales taxes. Back then, sales taxes were commonly in the area of 2%. This was enough for the schools to get by on in the 1950s. Today, incomes are many multiples higher and the cost of gods has outpaced income, so if sales tax was at 2% still, the adjusted amount going to schools would already be higher than in the 1950s. However, the sales tax rate has risen by a factor of 4 in most area, to 8% or even higher. And now the schools are struggling. With budgets that are a dollar adjusted 10 times or more what they were in the 1950s they struggle to get by now.
Rather than tax more and spend more, we need to trim the fat. Get rid of the middle class welfare that is school administration. In many school districts, there are more administrators than there are teachers.
I was placed in remedial reading in first grade because I was "having trouble" with the books they were having us read. In fourth grade, they changed their mind and put me in gifted and talented instead. That seemed to be a much better fit than remedial reading. By fourth grade, I was reading C.S. Lewis, Tolkein, Phillip Jose Farmer, Mark Twain, Piers Anthony, Stephen King. At home, I read voraciously. Literally hours per day. But I was still "having trouble" with the books the class was reading.
Parenting? No, I would say it is more of an individual issue. You make a decision on whether to think critically or just go with the flow. And like anything, the more you practice, the better you get at it.
Yes, exactly. A critical thinker is a person who identifies the issues before they are implemented. A problem solver is a person who is able to identify and fix the problem once it has gone wrong. A critical thinker is worth 10 problem solvers. But the companies don't REALLY want critical thinkers because they think, well, critically.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, As true today as it has ever been. Except now it goes the opposite way. By saving the cost of an ounce of prevention this quarter, next quarter you get to spend a pound on cure..But who cares about next quarter?
Employers do not want critical thinkers. Critical thinkers say stupid things like"Well, that might make us money this quarter, but in the long run it will cost us a hundredfold." and "Well, that sounds like a good idea, but the following flaws make it unpalatable." They want people who will say "That's a great idea! I'm excited to be a part of it." so that they can be blamed when it goes wrong in the ways that the critical thinker identified.
So we have three suppositions:
1. Republicans hate critical thinking.
2. Republicans are in bed with evil corporations.
3. Evil Corporations demand critical thinking.
Somewhere in there is a logical fallacy. I tend to think that statements 1 and 3 are in error.
This isn't about solving a problem, it's about using technology. It doesn't have to solve a problem so long as technology is involved.
This. I am tired of people using technology just because, even if it is less efficient than doing it the old fashioned way. Texting is a great example of billions of hours wasted on conversations that could have been over and done in seconds otherwise. Metro interface is another example where a UI that is efficient on something with no better alternative input methods is forced on a platform that has much more preferable and efficient input methods.
At least we have to give companies credit for believing in their own technology. The AT&T store uses tablets to assist their customers. It would be much faster to do so on a desktop, but they are attempting to make people believe that the technology can be used for stuff like that so the people will buy it. And it CAN be used for purposes like that, just not very efficiently. I had to sit with a friend at one of these stores for about an hour while a guy attempted to perform a simple transaction (obtain a new SIM card) on the pad, and eventually he went to one of the desktops and 5 minutes later we were done.
The Social Security Administration online services for business, which I and probably 90% of other businesses use once per year, has a password expiration policy of every 90 days. If you don't login in that period and change the password, you get locked out, requiring you to call and talk to an operator.
Then some sites are extremely case sensitive, causing me to lock myself out when I didn't remember if I had capitalized the make and model of my first car. Of course, many of the questions are so vague that I have multiple possible responses to them and I can't remember which one I might have used when I set it up.
Greenpeace is like any other religion. Guilt with different holidays.
One could form another organization that pollutes 10% less than Greenpeace and then start protesting Greenpeace.
I find it very likely that the first online murder has already occurred. Although it may have been ruled manslaughter. Someone has probably hacked a hospital or a pacemaker or something and gotten somebody killed.
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not everyone has time to waste building their own, unless perhaps you're a kid who "got hold of daddy's credit card" and you don't have any real responsibilities.
You don't have time to spend four hours one evening assembling the parts? Not even if it saves you $1,000 off of a similarly configured prebuilt?
This is not even the first slashvertisement for this ugly space inefficient design. I'm not going to link the other one because they don't deserve the clicks.
I'm eligible to disable advertising, but I have not done so because I get at least some enjoyment out of the site and I know they get money for impressions even though I have never clicked on one. But now the Cox Contour advertisment auto starts audio blasting at random times such that I can't leave slashdot running in my browser. That is beyond poor form.
I'm only using 0 bytes, but now that they have increased the limit, I will be using 0 bytes.
Wow. I literally do no remove my key fob from my pocket at any point when I get into or out of the car. It would take extra effort to take the key out and leave it in the car.
No big trick. They did the same thing when they introduced aribags. These lifesavers were going to decrease insurance premiums dramatically. Unfortunately, they have increased premiums dramatically because when they go off, you have to pay thousands to get them repacked, and plus you are probably badly injured instead of dead, possibly injured by the airbag itself, and your medical bills are higher than they would have been if you didn't have an airbag.
Yes, you have to have comprehensive in order to cover theft. Of course, if you have a loan, the bank will insist on you having theft insurance, but for some reason they are not willing to pay for this coverage of which they are a beneficiary.
My mother had a car stolen out of her garage while she was on vacation. The police actually found it, amazingly, in a park and ride well known to be a dropping off point for cars bound for Mexico. They actually took prints, which almost made me fall over in surprise. They got a match to a guy who was a known car thief. They did not arrest the guy and would not press charges even though my Mom wanted them to. Not only would they not do their job, but they wouldn't even tell my Mom who the perpetrator was so she could do their job for them.
Why waste time dusting for prints when you are not going to follow up?
Well, it has probably been a year or two since the last time slashdot trotted out the windowless airplane article.
Fortunately someone taught you that there WAS such an equation so that you would know to look it up in your book or on the internet.
All learning is cumulative. You have to start somewhere and build on it. Giving kids a calculator before they have learned basic math on their own is just a bad idea. What if they fat fingered on their calculator and came up with 10*10=1000? If they didn't know basic math, they wouldn't recognize that this is just an unreasonable answer. Once they know basic math and start doing calculus and trig. They are working on more complicated subject B and having proven they have learned A, they can now use the tool for the A problems that make up subject B.
Kind of like geometry. Once you prove a simple thing, you can use that entire proof as a single step in your next proof. Then THAT more complex proof can be a single step in a very complex proof. And so on.
"if it really costs the company $500 and takes 3 weeks to procure something that Amazon could have on my desk in 24 hours for $100, maybe its not me that should be under pressure to make efficiency savings?"
Our company prices disk storage at $10,000 per terabyte. We are under a lot of pressure to do whatever we can to lower storage utilization, from deleting potentially helpful log files, to deleting data that we often find we need to recreate because somebody needed it. Some people have taken to storing critical data locally on their laptops. There is no backup of local drives. There is a backed up shared drive, but the space is limited to about 3.5 GB per person. Now I know that there is overhead in storage costs, but it seems like 10 times the actual cost of a terabyte drive ought to be a reasonable upper limit, not 200 times.
You forgot "But if you quit without giving two weeks notice YOU are unprofessional."
Two problems.
The employers DO pay taxes at about the same level and percentage as they have done for at least the last 60 years.
The school systems budget per student is at an all time high, however, very little of that gets to the student due to a several thousand percent growth in administrative overhead.
In the 1950s schools were funded much like today, through property and sales taxes. Back then, sales taxes were commonly in the area of 2%. This was enough for the schools to get by on in the 1950s. Today, incomes are many multiples higher and the cost of gods has outpaced income, so if sales tax was at 2% still, the adjusted amount going to schools would already be higher than in the 1950s. However, the sales tax rate has risen by a factor of 4 in most area, to 8% or even higher. And now the schools are struggling. With budgets that are a dollar adjusted 10 times or more what they were in the 1950s they struggle to get by now.
Rather than tax more and spend more, we need to trim the fat. Get rid of the middle class welfare that is school administration. In many school districts, there are more administrators than there are teachers.
I was placed in remedial reading in first grade because I was "having trouble" with the books they were having us read. In fourth grade, they changed their mind and put me in gifted and talented instead. That seemed to be a much better fit than remedial reading. By fourth grade, I was reading C.S. Lewis, Tolkein, Phillip Jose Farmer, Mark Twain, Piers Anthony, Stephen King. At home, I read voraciously. Literally hours per day. But I was still "having trouble" with the books the class was reading.
Parenting? No, I would say it is more of an individual issue. You make a decision on whether to think critically or just go with the flow. And like anything, the more you practice, the better you get at it.
Yes, exactly. A critical thinker is a person who identifies the issues before they are implemented. A problem solver is a person who is able to identify and fix the problem once it has gone wrong. A critical thinker is worth 10 problem solvers. But the companies don't REALLY want critical thinkers because they think, well, critically. .But who cares about next quarter?
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, As true today as it has ever been. Except now it goes the opposite way. By saving the cost of an ounce of prevention this quarter, next quarter you get to spend a pound on cure.
Employers do not want critical thinkers. Critical thinkers say stupid things like"Well, that might make us money this quarter, but in the long run it will cost us a hundredfold." and "Well, that sounds like a good idea, but the following flaws make it unpalatable." They want people who will say "That's a great idea! I'm excited to be a part of it." so that they can be blamed when it goes wrong in the ways that the critical thinker identified.
So we have three suppositions:
1. Republicans hate critical thinking.
2. Republicans are in bed with evil corporations.
3. Evil Corporations demand critical thinking.
Somewhere in there is a logical fallacy. I tend to think that statements 1 and 3 are in error.
This isn't about solving a problem, it's about using technology. It doesn't have to solve a problem so long as technology is involved.
This. I am tired of people using technology just because, even if it is less efficient than doing it the old fashioned way. Texting is a great example of billions of hours wasted on conversations that could have been over and done in seconds otherwise. Metro interface is another example where a UI that is efficient on something with no better alternative input methods is forced on a platform that has much more preferable and efficient input methods.
At least we have to give companies credit for believing in their own technology. The AT&T store uses tablets to assist their customers. It would be much faster to do so on a desktop, but they are attempting to make people believe that the technology can be used for stuff like that so the people will buy it. And it CAN be used for purposes like that, just not very efficiently. I had to sit with a friend at one of these stores for about an hour while a guy attempted to perform a simple transaction (obtain a new SIM card) on the pad, and eventually he went to one of the desktops and 5 minutes later we were done.
Do I know someone who as done time? Of course. Who doesn't?
I don't know anyone who has done time. At least not more than a day or two in a city jail.
So it can carry 20,000 containers. A better question would be how many WILL it carry? 30,000? 40,000?
The Social Security Administration online services for business, which I and probably 90% of other businesses use once per year, has a password expiration policy of every 90 days. If you don't login in that period and change the password, you get locked out, requiring you to call and talk to an operator.
Then some sites are extremely case sensitive, causing me to lock myself out when I didn't remember if I had capitalized the make and model of my first car. Of course, many of the questions are so vague that I have multiple possible responses to them and I can't remember which one I might have used when I set it up.
Greenpeace is like any other religion. Guilt with different holidays.
One could form another organization that pollutes 10% less than Greenpeace and then start protesting Greenpeace.
And because he wasn't on drugs.
I find it very likely that the first online murder has already occurred. Although it may have been ruled manslaughter. Someone has probably hacked a hospital or a pacemaker or something and gotten somebody killed.