Thing is, we don't know how bad the short-term would be, and how that would affect the long term. Look at areas that have suffered natural disasters like hurricanes, where the people suffered GREATLY because everything they were dependent on stopped working.
If that happened on a continent-wide or global scale, I think we're screwed.
There was a lot of complaining when the city I live in rezoned some neighborhoods along what years previously had been the main thoroughfare (before the freeway was built and the highway designation was pulled) and the collections of old just-post-war homes and motels and businesses were sold off, razed, and the land rebuilt with three to five storey buildings of mixed commercial and residential use. Another part of town will probably follow suit, as recent changes in law will force landlords to bring their properties up to code compliance if they want to continue renting them out.
Thing of it is, the strip that has already been redeveloped was in such poor shape that there really wasn't much of value lost in its redevelopment. It wasn't a quaint little neighborhood of chabby-chic bungalos with old landscaping, it was a neighborhood of falling-down buildings, many with real structural faults that would require significantly more than a facelift remodel, with unmaintained grounds or gravel-coated yards so that the maintenance was nothing. The area is also close to the college and to the popular downtown, and is along a major mass-transit corridor that leads to the big city downtown too. In short, the area was simply worth a lot more than its existing use could justify, and most of the occupants were renters, not owners.
Some call the new buildings ugly. I will agree that some of the new buildings are not to my tastes. What I won't agree on though, is that the new buildings are worse for the area, or that the project was worse for the culture of the area. The old area was a slum. The new area has more residents, has more businesses, and isn't dangerous. Given that eminent domain can't be used in my state to take private land away from private owners to provide to other private owners, if the city had any strong-arming tactics they were probably based on actual infractions on the part of the existing owners (like building and fire code violations) which I can't really fault them for enforcing.
Simply, if neighborhoods fall into blight and become slums they're ripe for this to happen. It's hard to really call it wrong when that happens.
Probably not complete destruction, yet. We're only now at a point where we're so dependent on techology that would be affected by such a flare that it could be devastating, and even then, only if we're so completely unprepared as to have nothing shielded at all.
Perhaps that's one of the few good things to come out of the Cold War, we were afraid enough of EMP from nuclear weapons that there's a lot of things that are hardened or semi-hardened that might survive a hit. Plus there's a decent chance that we wouldn't be directly struck anyway.
I don't think it'll work. If there are salespeople in stores with more cup-based coffee makers than just Keurig, they'll probably continue to steer customers to those other makers.
Too much work. There should be no special requirement to make a flimsy plastic vacuformed cup with a paper label glued across the top as a lid. There's literally no reason to add to the manufacturing cost when from the customer's perspective, the end product is a consumable liquid.
I don't know how that applies to coffee; it's well established that once a band is well established and popular, that continuing to maintain relationships with third-party record labels is usually bad for the band as the label takes SO MUCH without providing much. When the band is new and needs to become established then the label may help, but the parasitic draw on the band is why so many have formed their own labels or distribution chains.
This is an example where in a very large multilevel structure, the intentions of the overpaid people at the top can be completely destroyed by the lowest-paid workers at the bottom. Policy is meaningless when people so far removed from the top can simply ignore it or work contrary to it.
I don't expect Keurig to do well with this down the road. They've made it clear that they do not intend to get rid of DRM, but the customers in this market know that the DRM is there and will continue to consider alternatives. If Keurig chooses to stop using DRM-enabled machines they still have to include the DRM in the K-cups, because owners of these machines will not accept that their fairly expensive coffee maker stops working because the latest cups down the road stop including the RFID or whatever they use.
They've screwed themselves and were too stupid to see it coming.
They do have an incredible capacity to yank the floor out from under you without really any notice. We've had APIs changed without being informed of it in advance. Annoying.
Electric motors run more efficiently at higher RPMs. Having a somewhat conventional transmission means that one can run efficiently at 25 miles per hour and at 75 miles per hour. It also makes going into reverse a little easier.
Keep in mind, adding features linearly drives price up logarithmically, almost without regard to cost to manufacture. The Model-S is a luxury car with all of the features of a luxury car. I expect that a mid-line car will have less interior amenities, less electronic gadgetry at least as far as what the driver can interact with, and will probably be less powerful in the driving performance. So long as the range is kept decent then these other reduced features may not be an issue for most drivers.
I have a beater Nissan Hardbody for much the same reason. I rarely drive it when I'm not using to haul cargo; either I'm dirty and don't want to get my car's interior dirty, or one of the other vehicles is broken. Otherwise it's used when a truck is actually needed.
I've thought about converting it to electric. When I was in high school in the nineties we had a Porsche 914 that had been donated with a blown motor and it was converted to electric and raced in the electric car classes. Pull the bed, get heavier duty springs from one of the late eighties 3/4 ton Hardbodies with the 8' bed, build battery boxes that attach to the frame rails, reinstall the bed with a hinge point aft of the axle to make battery service easier, move the transmission as far back as possible without cutting the floor too much, install the electric motor to the transmission with an adapter plate, then put more batteries under the hood and beef up the front springs. The biggest problem is getting the controller part right.
Inexperience can even come in the form of someone that has experience with a small version, but never worked in a huge organization. Some things simply don't scale well, and the labor estimates to implement or maintain are WAY off.
It also doesn't help when the new manager assumes that existing employees don't know how to do anything and micromanages, such that the employees stop engaging him. The boss ends up stepping in a lot of piles that he didn't see because no one has any desire to help him avoid them.
I suspect that since the Tesla S is much closer to a true clean-sheet design than cars from existing automakers, it's going to have more nifty-factor. Granted, Tesla got some experience with their dealings with Lotus for the first car, but if I remember right, they were upfitting electric drivetrains into existing car bodies, not even building those car bodies. In that sense, if Tesla is successful, they'll be the first 100% electric upstart to truly compete against the large automakers without resorting to internal-combustion vehicles. Besides, the point in the Model 3 is to be a mid-line car, priced so that the middle class can afford it.
We're going to pay attention to this simply because my wife's fourteen year old car crossed 160,000 miles on it last month, and she'll probably seek to replace it around the time it hits 200,000 miles, so the timing is good. Get the first units out and into the real-world, let their bugs get worked out with the early adopters, then look at what a more stable version of the product looks like, cost-wise. Our main panel is fairly close to where she parks, so running some EMT along the ceiling and down the wall in front of the car to a subpanel or charging station wouldn't be any trouble either.
The most dangerous person that one would voluntarily hand-over control to is the relatively inexperienced person that thinks they know everything and attempts to remake their piece of the organization the image of what they see as being correct.
I've seen it first-hand, and it's quite ugly when those preconceived notions run head-first into a cold, stark reality, and it takes a lot of messengers being shot before the actual problem of inexperience is recognized.
I suspect that if the facility handled ALL billing (ie, no separate bills from doctors or nurse practitioners or others) that it would help a lot. It would make it a lot harder to be double-billed, and it would probably help prevent every resident looking to make extra dough from popping in to say hello so that they could bill for the time.
Years ago I had a laptop that could be effectively turned into a portable hard disk drive depending on some weird keystrokes at boot-time. I can't remember exactly how it worked now (but I think it was Firewire) but I had considered building a diskless desktop computer that the laptop would dock into, where the desktop was orders of magnitude more powerful, so the desktop would boot from the laptop's disk.
To make this happen I was going to use Linux, as Windows would have thrown a bitch-fit over the differences in architecture and chipset. Never got around to it before the laptop was hopelessly obsolete and newer ones didn't have the feature anymore.
I could see a dock with all of the accessories that someone would want in a desktop that has storage to mirror the phone's contents in the event the phone is broken or gone, but only if it's not tied to a single model of phone.
A buddy of mine swore that he saw a guy who'd just had a vasectomy and still had some kind of staples in his body scream in pain when the microwave was operated. I did not witness it, but the buddy was not known for exaggerating.
It's my observation that many who become masters of one field are usually below average in several others. I've even known people with PhD degrees in work that requires a field component (paleo, anthro, geo, archeo) that have trouble actually operating in the field, like maintaining a safe distance driving off-road and not ditching the truck.
The best practice is to assume that they're experts in only their field, and to simply not judge in others. Though in this instance, you'd think that since they work with equipment that receives microwaves, and they're using a consumer appliance that emits microwaves that's even called a microwave, that they'd have figured that putting a microwave appliance in any proximity to the microwave receiver would be a bad idea.
A friend of mine stared playing with FreeBSD, I started playing with Linux that I got on some CDs.
We both had 486s. He found that he had better hardware support in Linux than BSD, so he switched to Linux.
The early kernel compliation process (at least as far back as 2.0.0) was relatively friendly. One could use a text-based menu system that worked similarly to how the text-driven installation process for Debian works now, to pick the hardware to support, to pick if the kernel was to be modular or monolithic, and to pick architecture. This allowed novices to customize their computers even when they had no programming knowledge. It also helped that most distributions at the time packed competing projects in such that one could choose which windowmanager and could change between them relatively easily if one wanted to experiment.
I think it really was ease of access for someone relatively computer savvy. It also helped that UNIX books (like UNIX in a Nutshell) applied too, so there was a lot of good documentation that worked for Linux too.
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Thing is, we don't know how bad the short-term would be, and how that would affect the long term. Look at areas that have suffered natural disasters like hurricanes, where the people suffered GREATLY because everything they were dependent on stopped working.
If that happened on a continent-wide or global scale, I think we're screwed.
There was a lot of complaining when the city I live in rezoned some neighborhoods along what years previously had been the main thoroughfare (before the freeway was built and the highway designation was pulled) and the collections of old just-post-war homes and motels and businesses were sold off, razed, and the land rebuilt with three to five storey buildings of mixed commercial and residential use. Another part of town will probably follow suit, as recent changes in law will force landlords to bring their properties up to code compliance if they want to continue renting them out.
Thing of it is, the strip that has already been redeveloped was in such poor shape that there really wasn't much of value lost in its redevelopment. It wasn't a quaint little neighborhood of chabby-chic bungalos with old landscaping, it was a neighborhood of falling-down buildings, many with real structural faults that would require significantly more than a facelift remodel, with unmaintained grounds or gravel-coated yards so that the maintenance was nothing. The area is also close to the college and to the popular downtown, and is along a major mass-transit corridor that leads to the big city downtown too. In short, the area was simply worth a lot more than its existing use could justify, and most of the occupants were renters, not owners.
Some call the new buildings ugly. I will agree that some of the new buildings are not to my tastes. What I won't agree on though, is that the new buildings are worse for the area, or that the project was worse for the culture of the area. The old area was a slum. The new area has more residents, has more businesses, and isn't dangerous. Given that eminent domain can't be used in my state to take private land away from private owners to provide to other private owners, if the city had any strong-arming tactics they were probably based on actual infractions on the part of the existing owners (like building and fire code violations) which I can't really fault them for enforcing.
Simply, if neighborhoods fall into blight and become slums they're ripe for this to happen. It's hard to really call it wrong when that happens.
If society collapses the way it may if climate change worsens, you might end up with the mark on your forehead, reading "POOR IMPULSE CONTROL"...
Probably not complete destruction, yet. We're only now at a point where we're so dependent on techology that would be affected by such a flare that it could be devastating, and even then, only if we're so completely unprepared as to have nothing shielded at all.
Perhaps that's one of the few good things to come out of the Cold War, we were afraid enough of EMP from nuclear weapons that there's a lot of things that are hardened or semi-hardened that might survive a hit. Plus there's a decent chance that we wouldn't be directly struck anyway.
I don't think it'll work. If there are salespeople in stores with more cup-based coffee makers than just Keurig, they'll probably continue to steer customers to those other makers.
Too much work. There should be no special requirement to make a flimsy plastic vacuformed cup with a paper label glued across the top as a lid. There's literally no reason to add to the manufacturing cost when from the customer's perspective, the end product is a consumable liquid.
I don't know how that applies to coffee; it's well established that once a band is well established and popular, that continuing to maintain relationships with third-party record labels is usually bad for the band as the label takes SO MUCH without providing much. When the band is new and needs to become established then the label may help, but the parasitic draw on the band is why so many have formed their own labels or distribution chains.
This is an example where in a very large multilevel structure, the intentions of the overpaid people at the top can be completely destroyed by the lowest-paid workers at the bottom. Policy is meaningless when people so far removed from the top can simply ignore it or work contrary to it.
I don't expect Keurig to do well with this down the road. They've made it clear that they do not intend to get rid of DRM, but the customers in this market know that the DRM is there and will continue to consider alternatives. If Keurig chooses to stop using DRM-enabled machines they still have to include the DRM in the K-cups, because owners of these machines will not accept that their fairly expensive coffee maker stops working because the latest cups down the road stop including the RFID or whatever they use.
They've screwed themselves and were too stupid to see it coming.
They do have an incredible capacity to yank the floor out from under you without really any notice. We've had APIs changed without being informed of it in advance. Annoying.
Electric motors run more efficiently at higher RPMs. Having a somewhat conventional transmission means that one can run efficiently at 25 miles per hour and at 75 miles per hour. It also makes going into reverse a little easier.
Keep in mind, adding features linearly drives price up logarithmically, almost without regard to cost to manufacture. The Model-S is a luxury car with all of the features of a luxury car. I expect that a mid-line car will have less interior amenities, less electronic gadgetry at least as far as what the driver can interact with, and will probably be less powerful in the driving performance. So long as the range is kept decent then these other reduced features may not be an issue for most drivers.
I have a beater Nissan Hardbody for much the same reason. I rarely drive it when I'm not using to haul cargo; either I'm dirty and don't want to get my car's interior dirty, or one of the other vehicles is broken. Otherwise it's used when a truck is actually needed.
I've thought about converting it to electric. When I was in high school in the nineties we had a Porsche 914 that had been donated with a blown motor and it was converted to electric and raced in the electric car classes. Pull the bed, get heavier duty springs from one of the late eighties 3/4 ton Hardbodies with the 8' bed, build battery boxes that attach to the frame rails, reinstall the bed with a hinge point aft of the axle to make battery service easier, move the transmission as far back as possible without cutting the floor too much, install the electric motor to the transmission with an adapter plate, then put more batteries under the hood and beef up the front springs. The biggest problem is getting the controller part right.
I think he's more like a Max Zorin, but Christopher Walken is still cool...
Inexperience can even come in the form of someone that has experience with a small version, but never worked in a huge organization. Some things simply don't scale well, and the labor estimates to implement or maintain are WAY off.
It also doesn't help when the new manager assumes that existing employees don't know how to do anything and micromanages, such that the employees stop engaging him. The boss ends up stepping in a lot of piles that he didn't see because no one has any desire to help him avoid them.
I suspect that since the Tesla S is much closer to a true clean-sheet design than cars from existing automakers, it's going to have more nifty-factor. Granted, Tesla got some experience with their dealings with Lotus for the first car, but if I remember right, they were upfitting electric drivetrains into existing car bodies, not even building those car bodies. In that sense, if Tesla is successful, they'll be the first 100% electric upstart to truly compete against the large automakers without resorting to internal-combustion vehicles. Besides, the point in the Model 3 is to be a mid-line car, priced so that the middle class can afford it.
We're going to pay attention to this simply because my wife's fourteen year old car crossed 160,000 miles on it last month, and she'll probably seek to replace it around the time it hits 200,000 miles, so the timing is good. Get the first units out and into the real-world, let their bugs get worked out with the early adopters, then look at what a more stable version of the product looks like, cost-wise. Our main panel is fairly close to where she parks, so running some EMT along the ceiling and down the wall in front of the car to a subpanel or charging station wouldn't be any trouble either.
Maybe they need more factory capacity. I suggest adding 21% more to the Gigafactory...
The most dangerous person that one would voluntarily hand-over control to is the relatively inexperienced person that thinks they know everything and attempts to remake their piece of the organization the image of what they see as being correct.
I've seen it first-hand, and it's quite ugly when those preconceived notions run head-first into a cold, stark reality, and it takes a lot of messengers being shot before the actual problem of inexperience is recognized.
Thank you mistress, may I have another?
And here I thought it was Apple fanboys taking samples of Apple's DNA...
I suspect that if the facility handled ALL billing (ie, no separate bills from doctors or nurse practitioners or others) that it would help a lot. It would make it a lot harder to be double-billed, and it would probably help prevent every resident looking to make extra dough from popping in to say hello so that they could bill for the time.
Not it isn't, my friend is no longer playing with FreeBSD and we no longer have 486s...
Years ago I had a laptop that could be effectively turned into a portable hard disk drive depending on some weird keystrokes at boot-time. I can't remember exactly how it worked now (but I think it was Firewire) but I had considered building a diskless desktop computer that the laptop would dock into, where the desktop was orders of magnitude more powerful, so the desktop would boot from the laptop's disk.
To make this happen I was going to use Linux, as Windows would have thrown a bitch-fit over the differences in architecture and chipset. Never got around to it before the laptop was hopelessly obsolete and newer ones didn't have the feature anymore.
I could see a dock with all of the accessories that someone would want in a desktop that has storage to mirror the phone's contents in the event the phone is broken or gone, but only if it's not tied to a single model of phone.
A buddy of mine swore that he saw a guy who'd just had a vasectomy and still had some kind of staples in his body scream in pain when the microwave was operated. I did not witness it, but the buddy was not known for exaggerating.
It's my observation that many who become masters of one field are usually below average in several others. I've even known people with PhD degrees in work that requires a field component (paleo, anthro, geo, archeo) that have trouble actually operating in the field, like maintaining a safe distance driving off-road and not ditching the truck.
The best practice is to assume that they're experts in only their field, and to simply not judge in others. Though in this instance, you'd think that since they work with equipment that receives microwaves, and they're using a consumer appliance that emits microwaves that's even called a microwave, that they'd have figured that putting a microwave appliance in any proximity to the microwave receiver would be a bad idea.
A friend of mine stared playing with FreeBSD, I started playing with Linux that I got on some CDs.
We both had 486s. He found that he had better hardware support in Linux than BSD, so he switched to Linux.
The early kernel compliation process (at least as far back as 2.0.0) was relatively friendly. One could use a text-based menu system that worked similarly to how the text-driven installation process for Debian works now, to pick the hardware to support, to pick if the kernel was to be modular or monolithic, and to pick architecture. This allowed novices to customize their computers even when they had no programming knowledge. It also helped that most distributions at the time packed competing projects in such that one could choose which windowmanager and could change between them relatively easily if one wanted to experiment.
I think it really was ease of access for someone relatively computer savvy. It also helped that UNIX books (like UNIX in a Nutshell) applied too, so there was a lot of good documentation that worked for Linux too.