Actually I think your experience makes you more qualified to discuss this than most other people on/., certainly than me. I appreciate your insight and the link, I'll be reading up when I get a chance.
I doubt you're ever going to get motivated workers at a burger joint, but I certainly agree with the thought of finding a way to provide training for those who want it and would participate.
Regarding my comment, I stand by it. I've had plenty of opportunity to make wrong choices in life, and certainly have made a few. However, I should have made it clearer what I meant. People who make many wrong choices, or continue to do so especially at the detriment of others. Career thieves for example. How many bad choices does a person have to make for me to write them off? It certainly differs, but at some point I do give up.
It's not a security risk, but certainly has risk of failure. Software issues could be one of them. Or how about when the sensor goes out or gets dirty? You become a road hazard because your bright lights won't turn off.
I guess I got old... I don't see a reason for such a feature when switching my lights to bright and back to normal isn't difficult or dangerous.
I'll let you know what I meant when I talked about having a working knowledge. In my first algebra class in HS I had a teacher who clearly was in over her head. When students asked her to reiterate a problem because nobody understood, she simply erased the example and went through it again.
I'm sure she did that because she didn't understand it either. Most of us barely made it through that class, and some didn't make it at all.
I don't really blame the teacher all that much, I blame the system that put her in that position.
It's not about hardship for CEOs. It's about passing the buck on to the consumers who have to pay more for cars because union contracts dicatate employees cannot be laid off.
The auto market is fickle as we saw with the crash recently. Strangely, when people are worried about money they don't buy new cars.
I saw a fascinating documentary recently about Ford and what they did starting in 2006. They saw the waste, decided to kill Mercury and sell of ownership in other brands because "it's impossible to be exceptional at 92 different things." This allowed them to accelerate development on new models.
When it came time for the handouts, Ford didn't need any. As a matter of fact, during the hearing when congress asked GMs CEO if he would be willing to work for $1, he immediately said yes as did Chrysler's. When Ford's CEO was asked, he said "no, I think I'm comfortable where I am." He was able to because Ford had already renegotiated the ridiculous UAW contracts, had become a profitable company that didn't have to worry about selling x number of cars in the next 3 weeks, and didn't need the handout.
Meanwhile, GM and Chrysler were still married to the unreasonable contracts, until big brudder gubment renegotiated for them.
The AP was correct... had any of them broken with the UAW contracts they would have 1) stopped production because of the strikes and the union mentality in that area and 2) lost their companies in the pending lawsuits.
Unions were great some time back. They're why we have 5 day work weeks and 8 day weeks, child labor laws, etc... However, when they (at least the UAW) ran out of real issues to fight for they began to make them up. Come on, disallowing layoffs? How reasonable is that?
I agree with you on salary, but unfortunately, we're taxed enough at the federal level that states are crippled to raise taxes to support fair salaries. And sadly, people will pay $300 to sit in the nosebleed section to see a football game, but nobody wants to pay a few extra dollars to fund education.
I think you're missing my point. The idea is to do it for a few years after your regular career... once you've earned your comfortable living. The income from teaching would be a nice padding... along with the benefits provided.
Seems they could simply add a module to track all of that throughout the month then have the meterperson gather that when they make their rounds... if that's what smart meters are really intended for.
I suppose the detail I left out, and saw personally back then and with my children now, is that the teachers thrown at math and science don't tend to understand the subjects very well.
That leads to inability to explain problems/solutions or to add the detail to explanations that help us all actually learn material.
What's sad is even when I was in school we were being taught problem solving (rather than memorization), but the tests you're talking about have eliminated that. Instead, they're taught how to pass the tests throughout the year until they take the test.
A huge problem with that is getting qualified (and hopefully excited) teachers in those fields. If people do well in math or science, they tend to go into higher paying jobs rather than into teaching. What happens then is the math or science teaching vacancy goes to the newly hired teacher with a general knowledge and an education degree, they're handed the book and curriculum, and told to teach.
It's my contention that those who have a nice career and a deep knowledge of math and/or science should consider spending the last few years working as a (fully qualified) teacher.
While the reaction to the door slamming seems certainly overzealous, I agree with the FP to this one. Being an asshat generally reaps likewise behavior. I would hope any court would find closing a door, however abruptly, to not be assault though.
BTW, knocking on a door does not require a warrant. If the story is true, the police were doing their due diligence.
Intel doesn't exactly have a history of being open and honest, but then again, what major corporation does?
This is going to be scenario where I vote with my dollars. Once Intel solved their heat problem and stopped adding latency layers, and thus began beating the pants off of AMD in benchmarks, I switched to Intel processors in my builds. And if Hulu, Amazon, Netflix et. al. join in on the fun, I'll abandon them as well.
I'm switching back, benchmarks be damned. I'll have plenty of processing power regardless.
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Actually I think your experience makes you more qualified to discuss this than most other people on /., certainly than me. I appreciate your insight and the link, I'll be reading up when I get a chance.
I doubt you're ever going to get motivated workers at a burger joint, but I certainly agree with the thought of finding a way to provide training for those who want it and would participate.
Regarding my comment, I stand by it. I've had plenty of opportunity to make wrong choices in life, and certainly have made a few. However, I should have made it clearer what I meant. People who make many wrong choices, or continue to do so especially at the detriment of others. Career thieves for example. How many bad choices does a person have to make for me to write them off? It certainly differs, but at some point I do give up.
Building sidewalks and roads is a lot cheaper than building tunnels. Then there's the maintenance.
As long as Aaron doesn't take out anybody else when he takes himself out, I'm ok with the gene pool getting a little better ;)
It's not a security risk, but certainly has risk of failure. Software issues could be one of them. Or how about when the sensor goes out or gets dirty? You become a road hazard because your bright lights won't turn off.
I guess I got old... I don't see a reason for such a feature when switching my lights to bright and back to normal isn't difficult or dangerous.
Because companies are in place to make money. If something costs them more money to make, they charge more for it.
When a company has to pay 30,000 people to do nothing, they pass that cost along to the consumer through the price of their products.
Way OT but reminded me of my favorite line from Raising Arizona.
"Do these balloons blow up in funny shapes?"
"Not unless round's funny."
I agree with you too... I'm just not suggesting it as a rewarding goal, but a "giving back" goal.
That's so crazy it just might work!
Unions again... ugh.
I'll let you know what I meant when I talked about having a working knowledge. In my first algebra class in HS I had a teacher who clearly was in over her head. When students asked her to reiterate a problem because nobody understood, she simply erased the example and went through it again.
I'm sure she did that because she didn't understand it either. Most of us barely made it through that class, and some didn't make it at all.
I don't really blame the teacher all that much, I blame the system that put her in that position.
It's not about hardship for CEOs. It's about passing the buck on to the consumers who have to pay more for cars because union contracts dicatate employees cannot be laid off.
The auto market is fickle as we saw with the crash recently. Strangely, when people are worried about money they don't buy new cars.
I saw a fascinating documentary recently about Ford and what they did starting in 2006. They saw the waste, decided to kill Mercury and sell of ownership in other brands because "it's impossible to be exceptional at 92 different things." This allowed them to accelerate development on new models.
When it came time for the handouts, Ford didn't need any. As a matter of fact, during the hearing when congress asked GMs CEO if he would be willing to work for $1, he immediately said yes as did Chrysler's. When Ford's CEO was asked, he said "no, I think I'm comfortable where I am." He was able to because Ford had already renegotiated the ridiculous UAW contracts, had become a profitable company that didn't have to worry about selling x number of cars in the next 3 weeks, and didn't need the handout.
Meanwhile, GM and Chrysler were still married to the unreasonable contracts, until big brudder gubment renegotiated for them.
The AP was correct... had any of them broken with the UAW contracts they would have 1) stopped production because of the strikes and the union mentality in that area and 2) lost their companies in the pending lawsuits.
Unions were great some time back. They're why we have 5 day work weeks and 8 day weeks, child labor laws, etc... However, when they (at least the UAW) ran out of real issues to fight for they began to make them up. Come on, disallowing layoffs? How reasonable is that?
I agree with you on salary, but unfortunately, we're taxed enough at the federal level that states are crippled to raise taxes to support fair salaries. And sadly, people will pay $300 to sit in the nosebleed section to see a football game, but nobody wants to pay a few extra dollars to fund education.
Why the assumption that I don't know what I'm talking about? What is it that you know about me that disqualifies my knowledge of the issue?
So, you're familiar with where my information comes from all on your own? Maybe you should apply for that $1MM psychic challenge.
I think you're missing my point. The idea is to do it for a few years after your regular career... once you've earned your comfortable living. The income from teaching would be a nice padding... along with the benefits provided.
Seems they could simply add a module to track all of that throughout the month then have the meterperson gather that when they make their rounds... if that's what smart meters are really intended for.
Do you call 30,000 people showing up once a month to pick up a paycheck because the union forced the auto cos to keep them on payroll a hardship?
could well actually increase total electricity consumption and therefore the carbon footprint
What about the carbon footprint of all the vehicles used daily by meter readers? How can a lower power transmission come close to that?
I think unions like the UAW have don't a remarkable enough job without the help of business interests.
I suppose the detail I left out, and saw personally back then and with my children now, is that the teachers thrown at math and science don't tend to understand the subjects very well.
That leads to inability to explain problems/solutions or to add the detail to explanations that help us all actually learn material.
What's sad is even when I was in school we were being taught problem solving (rather than memorization), but the tests you're talking about have eliminated that. Instead, they're taught how to pass the tests throughout the year until they take the test.
A huge problem with that is getting qualified (and hopefully excited) teachers in those fields. If people do well in math or science, they tend to go into higher paying jobs rather than into teaching. What happens then is the math or science teaching vacancy goes to the newly hired teacher with a general knowledge and an education degree, they're handed the book and curriculum, and told to teach.
It's my contention that those who have a nice career and a deep knowledge of math and/or science should consider spending the last few years working as a (fully qualified) teacher.
While the reaction to the door slamming seems certainly overzealous, I agree with the FP to this one. Being an asshat generally reaps likewise behavior. I would hope any court would find closing a door, however abruptly, to not be assault though.
BTW, knocking on a door does not require a warrant. If the story is true, the police were doing their due diligence.
Read the title again...
"Mac App Store Apps Already Hacked"
So far, only one has. But the title suggests many, and as if it were a Mac App Store problem.
Intel doesn't exactly have a history of being open and honest, but then again, what major corporation does?
This is going to be scenario where I vote with my dollars. Once Intel solved their heat problem and stopped adding latency layers, and thus began beating the pants off of AMD in benchmarks, I switched to Intel processors in my builds. And if Hulu, Amazon, Netflix et. al. join in on the fun, I'll abandon them as well.
I'm switching back, benchmarks be damned. I'll have plenty of processing power regardless.