In the case of Uber, I don't think that it became any of those. That would imply that it didn't start out that way.
Uber's initial popularity was boosted by their use of relatively new vehicles that had not been in private-service and by having drivers that were not already jaded to the prospect of ferrying people around all day. After all, who wants to get into an old, dirty, smelly cab driven by a jerk when they can get into a shiny new car driven by someone with a smile on their face?
Thing is, even with age restrictions on the vehicles allowed, they're still going to get older, dirtier, smellier. Their drivers are going to get increasingly jaded both because of the constant human interaction and the apparent wage issues. Eventually from the passenger's point of view the only substantial difference will be the application for summoning a ride, and the lack of yellow or green paint with checkerboard striping.
So back when the US Postal Service decided to retire the postal jeep in favor of the Grumman LLV, rather than offer them for sale they decided to have them crushed. They played both sides of the argument. When asked why they were being retired they said because they were no longer good for delivery, and when they were asked why they were being crushed instead of sold they said that they didn't want the competition buying and using them. So they were too good to sell, and too bad to leave intact?
This point with the F16 and other airforce aircraft strikes me the same way. "X is too poor an aircraft for modern missions." "X is useful as a drone aircraft with no pilot." Which is it? I mean, we're in an era where asymmetric warfare is the norm. If we were specifically geared-up to fight the Soviet Union throughout eastern Europe then perhaps the weapons systems that we currently have might be getting obsolete against what Russia has in the pipeline, or even against potential adversaries like the Chinese, but we're generally fighting opponents that use consumer-grade drones to drop handgrenades on their opponents, or against opponents that don't even have what we would consider to be proper uniforms or unit structure. It seems a little silly to declare existing technology obsolete when it's meeting the needs.
My work doesn't even require the employee to sign the workplace policies and procedures form. That wouldn't work. It's thousands of pages. Instead we sign an "awareness of workplace policies and procedures" document that states that the document is available to be reviewed.
It's so long, I expect that it's got mutually contradictory passages all over the place to the point that it's probably close to meaningless when it comes to enforceability.
I was under the impression that the "Liberated Woman" characteristics you describe required her to be an income provider to justify shedding the job of managing the home.
I have no beef whatsoever with a parent not having an income, so long as it's understood that if the other parent is spending 8+ hours a day earning money, the parent that does not earn an income is also working about the same amount of time on the household's needs. When the income-earning parent is home, then the 50% duties split time starts.
Off-hand I know of four divorces that resulted because a stay-at-home spouse did not keep up their end of the deal. This doesn't mean that the stay-at-home spouse needs to be spending eight hours a day on hands and knees scrubbing, or that a fancy, multi-course meal should be waiting for the income-earning spouse when arriving home, but it does mean that the place shouldn't be a pigsty either.
Having a door and having control of the lights is really helpful in this kind of thing. Also, don't have a visitor's chair if you don't need to deal with visitors professionally.
When I want to be left alone I leave the overhead lights off and only use the freestanding lamp. When I need to be left alone I close the office door. If I worked in a 3.5 sided cubicle I would probably put my woodworking skills to practice and make a gate for myself. Gate closed, don't bother me for social occasions.
How maddening is it to advise your client that they are blatantly in the wrong, the law is not on their side, and that they should settle; to tell them that moving forward will result in nothing but frustration and lost productivity and money; and then they insist on going forward. And refuse to pay when they lose.
I think I would've insisted in essentially an up-front deposit that covered so many hours, and that if somehow they managed to avoid using all of those hours, they would receive the unused portion back.
How much time does a meritless case take to pursue? On the one hand I could see it being short, since there's only so much one can do with both precedent and with ethics against the client's position, but on the other hand I could see it taking even more time if the attorney digs and digs and digs for any scrap of caselaw that could weigh in the client's favor.
A lot of people that are good with their money play their cards close to their chests, they do not necessarily discuss or share their financial information with others regardless of how innocent the request seems. This would probably skew results of a long-term survey toward those who don't have as much problem with others knowing their finances, which would more likely be those who aren't so good with money.
Second, who finds this to be a surprise? There are lots and lots of jobs where monthly income varies, and while a lot of those jobs tend toward labor, there are still plenty of other jobs that would see varying compensation due to things like commissions. Sales jobs can be very high paying one month and almost without compensation the next. Same for many skilled trades, if there's no work then there's no money.
I would not be surprised to learn that the cushy, regular-income jobs that most people think of are almost the exception, not the rule. Even IT is not immune to this; those who work as consultants may be paid for jobs that run for a few months and then end, or might be paid per billable-hour billed to their regular rotation of customers. That could mean income vastly varies from month to month depending on if anyone needs outside services or not.
The trouble with technology in the workplace is that once it crosses the threshold from necessary to efficiency, it benefits the owner almost to the excusion of the workers.
Of course, at the opposite end you find experiments like British Leyland and the decline of Britian as a powerhouse of automotive design and production, where throwing workers at a problem without respect for things like build quality results in truly atrocious products.
If a society has a goal to employ everyone, it is necessary for a balance. Can't over-automate to the point that the population is unemployed, can't merely throw unskilled workers at a task and expect it to turn out right. Government can serve to help with this balance if it's allowed to do so.
If there's structural wood up there then it's not a plenum airspace.
Mind you, in an institutional setting it's usually just easier to mandate that all cabling inside of the building be plenum-rated and all cable used outside be OSP so that there's no question about accidentally using the wrong cable in the wrong place, but that can be kind of pricey and may still require some decisions like where cables cross 30' breezeways in-conduit. Normally you should transition to OSP and back, but in most cases it's just cheaper to replace the plenum-rated cable 20 years down the road if it finally degrades than it is to do the splicing work and have to deal with any issues that arise from it.
You make your own tools out of toothbrush handles and bedpost shards and plastic cutlery to make a tap that can bite into the Thicknet cable in the prison ceiling so you can get on the network.
Oh, wait, I thought you said poverty taps, my mistake.
Yeah, when the federal government was spending more than 4% of its budget on the Apollo program.
Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind some military money being shifted to NASA. There's no sense in firing a several million dollar missile to take out a $200 quadcopter. Make the military figure out how to economically deal with those real yet inexpenive threats.
I donno about the cost, but I expect that a lot better return on that cost will be borne by this initiative than your post will generate, both in relative and absolute terms.
The answer is because humble people don't over-commit and don't promise that which they can't deliver. Charismatic Narcissists have a much greater chance of doing just that. It almost doesn't matter if they believe they can deliver or know that they can't, the end-effect is still the same.
It also means longer-term thinking than just next quarter or next year. When corporate officers and even board members don't necessarily stick around for more than a couple of years to pump-and-dump the company, it's hard to get any kind of long-term planning done.
On a more serious note, the cost to wire versus the cost for switches really depends on the number of drops, the relative port-capacities of switches to those cable counts, and any backbone (ie Fiber) costs needed.
Token Ring using the shared medium on each literal token ring segment allows for more nodes per segment than modern Ethernet with the mindset that two devices are a collision domain and thus one switchport per device is necessary. I haven't made a study of token ring so I don't really know how many nodes can be present on a given coaxial segment or even how token ring switches to divide-up segments work, but if they can get a dozen nodes on a ring then they can buy 1/12 the number of switches than they'd need for Ethernet, and if the nodes are idle a lot of the time then that's probably a fairly efficient arrangement.
As for Ethernet many manufacturers don't even offer full-width rackmount switches with less than 24 anymore, you have to buy workgroup switches and adapter kits to get down to 12 ports. Thing is, if I have only a handful of devices fed from a closet then I could have over half of that fairly expensive switch idle. In the case of Cisco products, that's a list-price $5000 switch if it's Gigabit with 10G uplink capability and PoE for L2/VLAN, no real L3, and if more than 24 are needed and I step up to 48 ports then your're talking $8000 list-price, whether you need 25 ports or all 48. To contrast that, when I have drops pulled in they're $150-$200 each depending on how many are being pulled and how difficult the building is to work with. I can't expect Token Ring to have the exact same cost per drop, but I would not be surprised if it's similar and if again, they don't need very many, it makes some degree of sense to stick with what they have versus paying thousands of dollars per closet for switches.
But with Token Ring essentially dead and having been in-decline for a long time now I probably would've went Ethernet anyway, especially depending on the quality of the Ethernet cabling present in the building.
Sad thing is, I wasn't really joking when I asked. Only "Visual"-titled languages or environments I was familiar with were Visual Basic and Visual C++, and at the time I was exposed to them I did not care for them.
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In the case of Uber, I don't think that it became any of those. That would imply that it didn't start out that way.
Uber's initial popularity was boosted by their use of relatively new vehicles that had not been in private-service and by having drivers that were not already jaded to the prospect of ferrying people around all day. After all, who wants to get into an old, dirty, smelly cab driven by a jerk when they can get into a shiny new car driven by someone with a smile on their face?
Thing is, even with age restrictions on the vehicles allowed, they're still going to get older, dirtier, smellier. Their drivers are going to get increasingly jaded both because of the constant human interaction and the apparent wage issues. Eventually from the passenger's point of view the only substantial difference will be the application for summoning a ride, and the lack of yellow or green paint with checkerboard striping.
So back when the US Postal Service decided to retire the postal jeep in favor of the Grumman LLV, rather than offer them for sale they decided to have them crushed. They played both sides of the argument. When asked why they were being retired they said because they were no longer good for delivery, and when they were asked why they were being crushed instead of sold they said that they didn't want the competition buying and using them. So they were too good to sell, and too bad to leave intact?
This point with the F16 and other airforce aircraft strikes me the same way. "X is too poor an aircraft for modern missions." "X is useful as a drone aircraft with no pilot." Which is it? I mean, we're in an era where asymmetric warfare is the norm. If we were specifically geared-up to fight the Soviet Union throughout eastern Europe then perhaps the weapons systems that we currently have might be getting obsolete against what Russia has in the pipeline, or even against potential adversaries like the Chinese, but we're generally fighting opponents that use consumer-grade drones to drop handgrenades on their opponents, or against opponents that don't even have what we would consider to be proper uniforms or unit structure. It seems a little silly to declare existing technology obsolete when it's meeting the needs.
Direct it to my New Amsterdam address please.
My work doesn't even require the employee to sign the workplace policies and procedures form. That wouldn't work. It's thousands of pages. Instead we sign an "awareness of workplace policies and procedures" document that states that the document is available to be reviewed.
It's so long, I expect that it's got mutually contradictory passages all over the place to the point that it's probably close to meaningless when it comes to enforceability.
"Fuck Employees"
That sounds great on the surface of things, but in the end it often proves problematic.
Mrs. Columbo wanted to talk to a lot of people.
Why are you afraid of women in the workplace? Are you weaker than the so-called weaker sex, or do you just prefer the company of men?
I was under the impression that the "Liberated Woman" characteristics you describe required her to be an income provider to justify shedding the job of managing the home.
I have no beef whatsoever with a parent not having an income, so long as it's understood that if the other parent is spending 8+ hours a day earning money, the parent that does not earn an income is also working about the same amount of time on the household's needs. When the income-earning parent is home, then the 50% duties split time starts.
Off-hand I know of four divorces that resulted because a stay-at-home spouse did not keep up their end of the deal. This doesn't mean that the stay-at-home spouse needs to be spending eight hours a day on hands and knees scrubbing, or that a fancy, multi-course meal should be waiting for the income-earning spouse when arriving home, but it does mean that the place shouldn't be a pigsty either.
Bom-bay?
No way!
Mumbai!
Burma-shave.
Having a door and having control of the lights is really helpful in this kind of thing. Also, don't have a visitor's chair if you don't need to deal with visitors professionally.
When I want to be left alone I leave the overhead lights off and only use the freestanding lamp. When I need to be left alone I close the office door. If I worked in a 3.5 sided cubicle I would probably put my woodworking skills to practice and make a gate for myself. Gate closed, don't bother me for social occasions.
How maddening is it to advise your client that they are blatantly in the wrong, the law is not on their side, and that they should settle; to tell them that moving forward will result in nothing but frustration and lost productivity and money; and then they insist on going forward. And refuse to pay when they lose.
I think I would've insisted in essentially an up-front deposit that covered so many hours, and that if somehow they managed to avoid using all of those hours, they would receive the unused portion back.
How much time does a meritless case take to pursue? On the one hand I could see it being short, since there's only so much one can do with both precedent and with ethics against the client's position, but on the other hand I could see it taking even more time if the attorney digs and digs and digs for any scrap of caselaw that could weigh in the client's favor.
A lot of people that are good with their money play their cards close to their chests, they do not necessarily discuss or share their financial information with others regardless of how innocent the request seems. This would probably skew results of a long-term survey toward those who don't have as much problem with others knowing their finances, which would more likely be those who aren't so good with money.
Second, who finds this to be a surprise? There are lots and lots of jobs where monthly income varies, and while a lot of those jobs tend toward labor, there are still plenty of other jobs that would see varying compensation due to things like commissions. Sales jobs can be very high paying one month and almost without compensation the next. Same for many skilled trades, if there's no work then there's no money.
I would not be surprised to learn that the cushy, regular-income jobs that most people think of are almost the exception, not the rule. Even IT is not immune to this; those who work as consultants may be paid for jobs that run for a few months and then end, or might be paid per billable-hour billed to their regular rotation of customers. That could mean income vastly varies from month to month depending on if anyone needs outside services or not.
Ask Hans Reiser.
The trouble with technology in the workplace is that once it crosses the threshold from necessary to efficiency, it benefits the owner almost to the excusion of the workers.
Of course, at the opposite end you find experiments like British Leyland and the decline of Britian as a powerhouse of automotive design and production, where throwing workers at a problem without respect for things like build quality results in truly atrocious products.
If a society has a goal to employ everyone, it is necessary for a balance. Can't over-automate to the point that the population is unemployed, can't merely throw unskilled workers at a task and expect it to turn out right. Government can serve to help with this balance if it's allowed to do so.
If there's structural wood up there then it's not a plenum airspace.
Mind you, in an institutional setting it's usually just easier to mandate that all cabling inside of the building be plenum-rated and all cable used outside be OSP so that there's no question about accidentally using the wrong cable in the wrong place, but that can be kind of pricey and may still require some decisions like where cables cross 30' breezeways in-conduit. Normally you should transition to OSP and back, but in most cases it's just cheaper to replace the plenum-rated cable 20 years down the road if it finally degrades than it is to do the splicing work and have to deal with any issues that arise from it.
How do they build poverty traps?
You make your own tools out of toothbrush handles and bedpost shards and plastic cutlery to make a tap that can bite into the Thicknet cable in the prison ceiling so you can get on the network.
Oh, wait, I thought you said poverty taps, my mistake.
Since "Fucking Obvious" mod action died with Kuro5hin, we've had to improvise.
Kind of like how at work it's generally unacceptable to say, "Go fuck yourself!" so we instead say, "Ok, Great." or, "Bless his/her little heart."
"Microsoft Acquires Container Platform Deis From Engine Yard"
This literally sounds like a piece of rusty railroad rolling stock was bought from an old railyard and dragged away.
Yeah, when the federal government was spending more than 4% of its budget on the Apollo program.
Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind some military money being shifted to NASA. There's no sense in firing a several million dollar missile to take out a $200 quadcopter. Make the military figure out how to economically deal with those real yet inexpenive threats.
I donno about the cost, but I expect that a lot better return on that cost will be borne by this initiative than your post will generate, both in relative and absolute terms.
The answer is because humble people don't over-commit and don't promise that which they can't deliver. Charismatic Narcissists have a much greater chance of doing just that. It almost doesn't matter if they believe they can deliver or know that they can't, the end-effect is still the same.
It also means longer-term thinking than just next quarter or next year. When corporate officers and even board members don't necessarily stick around for more than a couple of years to pump-and-dump the company, it's hard to get any kind of long-term planning done.
On a more serious note, the cost to wire versus the cost for switches really depends on the number of drops, the relative port-capacities of switches to those cable counts, and any backbone (ie Fiber) costs needed.
Token Ring using the shared medium on each literal token ring segment allows for more nodes per segment than modern Ethernet with the mindset that two devices are a collision domain and thus one switchport per device is necessary. I haven't made a study of token ring so I don't really know how many nodes can be present on a given coaxial segment or even how token ring switches to divide-up segments work, but if they can get a dozen nodes on a ring then they can buy 1/12 the number of switches than they'd need for Ethernet, and if the nodes are idle a lot of the time then that's probably a fairly efficient arrangement.
As for Ethernet many manufacturers don't even offer full-width rackmount switches with less than 24 anymore, you have to buy workgroup switches and adapter kits to get down to 12 ports. Thing is, if I have only a handful of devices fed from a closet then I could have over half of that fairly expensive switch idle. In the case of Cisco products, that's a list-price $5000 switch if it's Gigabit with 10G uplink capability and PoE for L2/VLAN, no real L3, and if more than 24 are needed and I step up to 48 ports then your're talking $8000 list-price, whether you need 25 ports or all 48. To contrast that, when I have drops pulled in they're $150-$200 each depending on how many are being pulled and how difficult the building is to work with. I can't expect Token Ring to have the exact same cost per drop, but I would not be surprised if it's similar and if again, they don't need very many, it makes some degree of sense to stick with what they have versus paying thousands of dollars per closet for switches.
But with Token Ring essentially dead and having been in-decline for a long time now I probably would've went Ethernet anyway, especially depending on the quality of the Ethernet cabling present in the building.
Sad thing is, I wasn't really joking when I asked. Only "Visual"-titled languages or environments I was familiar with were Visual Basic and Visual C++, and at the time I was exposed to them I did not care for them.
I thought we did away with kids having coworkers with modern employment law...