So what's the heaviest item Amazon will ship for free? The company declined to say, but the makers of a 1,509-pound safe (shipping weight: 1,672 pounds) claim the prize for biggest bang for one's 79 bucks.
"We charge customers around $700 to ship this safe, but when they buy it through Amazon they get it shipped for free," says Pasquale Murena, marketing manager for Cannon Safe. "As a result, we get orders through Amazon every day." In fact, Amazon will pick up the tab for shipping the safe even for non-Prime members, if they are willing to wait a few extra days for delivery. Like many items priced over $25, it qualifies for "Super Saver Shipping," which usually take five to eight days to arrive.
What investors do know is this: [Amazon] reported $636 million in shipping losses in the quarter ended Sept. 30 ($2.8 billion in the past year) -- that represents 4.6% of its sales. Amazon reported a net $274 million loss that quarter, but "they would have earned a hefty profit were it not for the costs of free shipping," says Gillis. In fact, free shipping reduces Amazon's profit margin on any one item to about 1%, compared with the 5% retailers earn typically, he says.
As with most globally significant events, there's been a lot of foreign language reporting (on the Snowden mess), but very little of it filters back into the USA media-sphere
No, it's just yet another stupid "corporate training regime" designed to separate MBAs from their and everyone else's money.
FTFA
Lasleyâ(TM)s company, Edw. C. Levy Co., helps steel companies turn slag material into cement, road paving, and other products. It has sent a few dozen people through the Pendaran program and noted a 60 percent to 70 percent safety improvement among those teams, which translated into a $1 million annual savings from higher productivity. Now the company looks to put the majority of its 1,800 people through the course. âoeThe first three days may be the worst thing you can imagine, but then the clouds part and real change happens,â Lasley says.
Injuries and safety violations are measurable metrics.
Actually teaching people how to work as a team is not bullshit. Bullshit is when a program claims to teach teamwork, but doesn't.
I'm not sure why breaking people's spirit is considered "awesome".
If you RTFA, you'd see that they break people of their independent streak. By forcing them into shitty conditions and allowing them to fail over and over, flaws are exposed and eventually self-recognized The psychological pressure is there just to speed up the process.
There's nothing special about this course, other than it's being done to white/blue collar workers instead of raw military recruits at boot camp.
If NASA's models are broken, then attack the models. Short of that, data-less speculation is just that.
The (re)insurance industry has more or less admitted that its statistical models are broken and that "1 in X00 years" is a meaningless metric based on information that is no longer relevant. The future trend is for the insurance industry to require mitigation for extreme weather events or you won't get (cheap or any) insurance.
And I really don't tend to curse unless people are doing something stupid and annoying. If people have concerns and questions that I feel are valid, I'm more than happy to talk about it.
I curse when there isn't any argument. The cursing happens for the "you're so f*cking wrong that it's not even worth trying to make logical arguments about it, because you have no possible excuse" case.
To say Linus is throwing tantrums misses the content of his message.
Ender's Game is a case where an authors words are important, rather than their beliefs. Jefferson, Franklin, MLKing were all filandering hypocrites, it is their words which are important rather than their beliefs and actions.
Card also wrote other words. Those words support his intolerant beliefs and actions.
For instance, if you have a very rigid-bodied vehicle and a crumply-bodied vehicle, you'll most likely experience more acceleration in an accident with the stiff bodied vehicle, as the crumply vehicle takes more time to come to a complete stop.
Small, propeller-driven planes are often better-suited to counter-insurgency operations than the fighter jets on which U.S. forces tend to rely, because they can fly lower and slower to get a more precise idea of what enemy ground forces are doing. Since the Taliban has no air force of its own and few surface-to-air missiles, the danger to pilots from enemy fire is modest. The U.S. Air Force seriously considered buying such planes for use by its own pilots in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The U.S. efforts to purchase a prop-driven plane go back about five years. Some in the Air Force wanted to buy a fleet of such planes to provide close air support to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. They would have been better suited to such work than the service's aging fleet of fast jets, which were designed to kill Soviet MiGs not strafe insurgents and which cost a fortune for every hour they fly.
Our modern military shouldn't be limited to "modern" wars.
you know it's bullshit, the money comes from the same budgets and the same guy can order both to do whatever he wants.
The Pentagon just argued that Seal Team 6 was on loan to the CIA when they went after Bin Laden, which excuses their purge of almost all documents that could be requested by the Freedom of Information Act.
The CIA, noting that the bin Laden mission was overseen by then-CIA Director Leon Panetta before he became defense secretary, said that the SEALs were effectively assigned to work temporarily for the CIA, which has presidential authority to conduct covert operations.
"Documents related to the raid were handled in a manner consistent with the fact that the operation was conducted under the direction of the CIA director," agency spokesman Preston Golson said in an emailed statement. "Records of a CIA operation such as the (bin Laden) raid, which were created during the conduct of the operation by persons acting under the authority of the CIA Director, are CIA records."
It doesn't even matter if they're lying, as its unlikely anyone will get punished or dragged before a Judge.
Verizon can't provide any 4G, or even reliable 3G coverage in my neighborhood, yet Everest climbers have good enough 4G coverage to stream HD video!?
The topography is favorable, the max user load is easily estimated, and the telco gets good PR out of it. I doubt your neighborhood can claim 2/3 of those things.
It is not used during take off or landing, and although either could be handled by computer, I'm not aware of any passenger aircraft that has such a fly by wire system. All of them are on the drawing board.
Autoland systems were developed in the 40s and perfected in the 60s by the Brits. Developed for military purposes and then perfected for commercial purposes because England had endless problems with zero visibility due to their fog + pollution.
Autoland systems are so accurate that a fudge factor was added in, since multiple aircraft will all land on the exact same patch of runway and destroy the surface. I can't say why you're "not aware of any passenger aircraft that has such a fly by wire system."
Who says we are applying them randomly to livestock?
Would you have preferred "indiscriminately"?
Also, at the risk of sounding callous we need to keep in mind that most resistant infections are not fatal.
Up to a 50% mortality rate in hospitals. You're sounding very callous right now.
No one said that these farmers with MRSA were dying. Only that they had MRSA present. As long as their immune system is not dramatically compromized they are capable of fighting off MRSA, becuase MRSA is not immune to antibodies, macrophages, or any other part of the acue phase response.
Are you shitting me? This is not a good thing. 'No one said that these farmers with MRSA were dying. Only that they are walking reservoirs of drug resistant bacteria.' 'As long as their immune system is not dramatically compromized they are capable of fighting off MRSA and spreading the disease'
But it's not like MRSA is Ebola.
I wish MRSA was more like Ebola, I.E. limited to Africa and parts of Asia. MRSA has an average mortality rate of 32% and it's everywhere. If you catch one of the nastier strains, your chances of surviving are 50/50
"Give us your (somewhat) skilled workers willing to work for a sub-standard wage.
The thing is, it doesn't even have to be a sub-standard wage. They can pay the market wage, but the market wage is significantly suppressed by the influx of X00,000 new workers every year.
If Big Business was serious about their rhetoric, they'd be trying to expand the E-visa quotas instead of the H1-B quotas. That would allow us to truly recruit the cream of the crop instead of trying to vacuum up even more of the 1~1.5 million engineers that India graduates every year.
It's only illegal if it is against the law... You do realize that espionage is ALWAYS illegal in the country being spied on right? That doesn't make it illegal in the country doing the spying.
One of Russia's replies to the USA's request to extradite Snowden was something along the lines of 'In Russia, it's not a crime to spy on the USA'
The theory being that extradition should only apply to actions that are also a crime in the foreign country.
I purposefully introduce inaccuracies into corporate data sets. Slightly misspelled names, incorrect birth day/month/year, variable spellings of my street address.
note: the post office has always gotten my mail to me, misspellings and everything, but it's enough to prevent lazy companies from matching that information to an existing profile.
Slashdot Mirror
Record Company Required Metadata:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200422000
Amazon inserts watermarks when asked to.
I have no problems with watermarking. I do have problems with DRM.
Only if you drop-ship it to an Amazon Warehouse first.
The same goes for Amazon Prime.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-elephant-in-amazons-mail-room-2012-11-28
So what's the heaviest item Amazon will ship for free? The company declined to say, but the makers of a 1,509-pound safe (shipping weight: 1,672 pounds) claim the prize for biggest bang for one's 79 bucks.
"We charge customers around $700 to ship this safe, but when they buy it through Amazon they get it shipped for free," says Pasquale Murena, marketing manager for Cannon Safe. "As a result, we get orders through Amazon every day." In fact, Amazon will pick up the tab for shipping the safe even for non-Prime members, if they are willing to wait a few extra days for delivery. Like many items priced over $25, it qualifies for "Super Saver Shipping," which usually take five to eight days to arrive.
What investors do know is this: [Amazon] reported $636 million in shipping losses in the quarter ended Sept. 30 ($2.8 billion in the past year) -- that represents 4.6% of its sales. Amazon reported a net $274 million loss that quarter, but "they would have earned a hefty profit were it not for the costs of free shipping," says Gillis. In fact, free shipping reduces Amazon's profit margin on any one item to about 1%, compared with the 5% retailers earn typically, he says.
The original article in German: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/nsa-affaere-jimmy-carter-kritisiert-usa-a-911589.html
Google Translate: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?u=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/nsa-affaere-jimmy-carter-kritisiert-usa-a-911589.html
As with most globally significant events, there's been a lot of foreign language reporting (on the Snowden mess), but very little of it filters back into the USA media-sphere
2. I couldn't help but think that the picture of the sweaty girl in a tank top didn't actually add anything to the story except a little eye candy.
Fact: If you wanted more people to RTFA, you should have lead with this.
No, it's just yet another stupid "corporate training regime" designed to separate MBAs from their and everyone else's money.
FTFA
Lasleyâ(TM)s company, Edw. C. Levy Co., helps steel companies turn slag material into cement, road paving, and other products. It has sent a few dozen people through the Pendaran program and noted a 60 percent to 70 percent safety improvement among those teams, which translated into a $1 million annual savings from higher productivity. Now the company looks to put the majority of its 1,800 people through the course. âoeThe first three days may be the worst thing you can imagine, but then the clouds part and real change happens,â Lasley says.
Injuries and safety violations are measurable metrics.
Actually teaching people how to work as a team is not bullshit.
Bullshit is when a program claims to teach teamwork, but doesn't.
I'm not sure why breaking people's spirit is considered "awesome".
If you RTFA, you'd see that they break people of their independent streak.
By forcing them into shitty conditions and allowing them to fail over and over, flaws are exposed and eventually self-recognized
The psychological pressure is there just to speed up the process.
There's nothing special about this course, other than it's being done to white/blue collar workers instead of raw military recruits at boot camp.
If NASA's models are broken, then attack the models. Short of that, data-less speculation is just that.
The (re)insurance industry has more or less admitted that its statistical models are broken and that "1 in X00 years" is a meaningless metric based on information that is no longer relevant.
The future trend is for the insurance industry to require mitigation for extreme weather events or you won't get (cheap or any) insurance.
https://www.google.com/search?q=it+is+rather+obvious+that,+for+many+regions,+hazard+risk+can+no+longer+be+seen+as+stationary
Linus said:
And I really don't tend to curse unless people are doing something
stupid and annoying. If people have concerns and questions that I feel
are valid, I'm more than happy to talk about it.
I curse when there isn't any argument. The cursing happens for the
"you're so f*cking wrong that it's not even worth trying to make
logical arguments about it, because you have no possible excuse" case.
To say Linus is throwing tantrums misses the content of his message.
and partnered with the private sector to improve our cybersecurity.
Did...she just list PRISM as an accomplishment on her resume?
Maybe she was talking about HBGary and Stratfor
Ender's Game is a case where an authors words are important, rather than their beliefs. Jefferson, Franklin, MLKing were all filandering hypocrites, it is their words which are important rather than their beliefs and actions.
Card also wrote other words.
Those words support his intolerant beliefs and actions.
What was your point again?
In low orbit you don't need proper radiation hardening.
Since you're still within the earth's magnetic field (and technically the atmosphere), a little bit of shielding goes a long way.
I also didn't see anything about Planet Lab's Flock-1 being Arduino based.
Not in TFA and not on their website or press kit.
For instance, if you have a very rigid-bodied vehicle and a crumply-bodied vehicle, you'll most likely experience more acceleration in an accident with the stiff bodied vehicle, as the crumply vehicle takes more time to come to a complete stop.
This crash test by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety speaks for itself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtxd27jlZ_g
I know which car I'd rather be in
Times change. Technology changes. We all love the Sopwith Camel and the P-51, but you wouldn't use either one in a modern war.
Depends on what you call a modern war.
Here's two articles written almost a year apart:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2012/04/16/simple-purchase-of-light-plane-becomes-big-problem-for-air-force/
http://killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/02/27/us_air_force_buys_20_propellor_driven_attack_planes
Small, propeller-driven planes are often better-suited to counter-insurgency operations than the fighter jets on which U.S. forces tend to rely, because they can fly lower and slower to get a more precise idea of what enemy ground forces are doing. Since the Taliban has no air force of its own and few surface-to-air missiles, the danger to pilots from enemy fire is modest. The U.S. Air Force seriously considered buying such planes for use by its own pilots in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The U.S. efforts to purchase a prop-driven plane go back about five years. Some in the Air Force wanted to buy a fleet of such planes to provide close air support to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. They would have been better suited to such work than the service's aging fleet of fast jets, which were designed to kill Soviet MiGs not strafe insurgents and which cost a fortune for every hour they fly.
Our modern military shouldn't be limited to "modern" wars.
you know it's bullshit, the money comes from the same budgets and the same guy can order both to do whatever he wants.
The Pentagon just argued that Seal Team 6 was on loan to the CIA when they went after Bin Laden,
which excuses their purge of almost all documents that could be requested by the Freedom of Information Act.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/08/bin-laden-raid-files-reportedly-purged-from-pentagon-computers-sent-to-cia/
The CIA, noting that the bin Laden mission was overseen by then-CIA Director Leon Panetta before he became defense secretary, said that the SEALs were effectively assigned to work temporarily for the CIA, which has presidential authority to conduct covert operations.
"Documents related to the raid were handled in a manner consistent with the fact that the operation was conducted under the direction of the CIA director," agency spokesman Preston Golson said in an emailed statement. "Records of a CIA operation such as the (bin Laden) raid, which were created during the conduct of the operation by persons acting under the authority of the CIA Director, are CIA records."
It doesn't even matter if they're lying, as its unlikely anyone will get punished or dragged before a Judge.
Verizon can't provide any 4G, or even reliable 3G coverage in my neighborhood, yet Everest climbers have good enough 4G coverage to stream HD video!?
The topography is favorable, the max user load is easily estimated, and the telco gets good PR out of it.
I doubt your neighborhood can claim 2/3 of those things.
It is not used during take off or landing, and although either could be handled by computer, I'm not aware of any passenger aircraft that has such a fly by wire system. All of them are on the drawing board.
Autoland systems were developed in the 40s and perfected in the 60s by the Brits.
Developed for military purposes and then perfected for commercial purposes because England had endless problems with zero visibility due to their fog + pollution.
Autoland systems are so accurate that a fudge factor was added in, since multiple aircraft will all land on the exact same patch of runway and destroy the surface.
I can't say why you're "not aware of any passenger aircraft that has such a fly by wire system."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system#Special_CAT_II_and_CAT_III_operations
The head of the Army (the guy who just deposed Morsi) was a General that Morsi installed after clearing house in 2012.
That trick may have worked in Turkey, but it didn't work in Egypt
Who says we are applying them randomly to livestock?
Would you have preferred "indiscriminately"?
Also, at the risk of sounding callous we need to keep in mind that most resistant infections are not fatal.
Up to a 50% mortality rate in hospitals.
You're sounding very callous right now.
No one said that these farmers with MRSA were dying. Only that they had MRSA present. As long as their immune system is not dramatically compromized they are capable of fighting off MRSA, becuase MRSA is not immune to antibodies, macrophages, or any other part of the acue phase response.
Are you shitting me? This is not a good thing.
'No one said that these farmers with MRSA were dying. Only that they are walking reservoirs of drug resistant bacteria.'
'As long as their immune system is not dramatically compromized they are capable of fighting off MRSA and spreading the disease'
But it's not like MRSA is Ebola.
I wish MRSA was more like Ebola, I.E. limited to Africa and parts of Asia.
MRSA has an average mortality rate of 32% and it's everywhere.
If you catch one of the nastier strains, your chances of surviving are 50/50
"Give us your (somewhat) skilled workers willing to work for a sub-standard wage.
The thing is, it doesn't even have to be a sub-standard wage.
They can pay the market wage, but the market wage is significantly suppressed by the influx of X00,000 new workers every year.
If Big Business was serious about their rhetoric, they'd be trying to expand the E-visa quotas instead of the H1-B quotas.
That would allow us to truly recruit the cream of the crop instead of trying to vacuum up even more of the 1~1.5 million engineers that India graduates every year.
It's only illegal if it is against the law... You do realize that espionage is ALWAYS illegal in the country being spied on right? That doesn't make it illegal in the country doing the spying.
One of Russia's replies to the USA's request to extradite Snowden was something along the lines of
'In Russia, it's not a crime to spy on the USA'
The theory being that extradition should only apply to actions that are also a crime in the foreign country.
He's probably getting the Senior Citizen discount,
Get off his lawn!
or one doctor who can't be paged
This has been a long running refrain on /. and it's wrong.
Anytime a Doctor is on call, there's a backup.
Next time you see your GP, ask them about it.
They'll tell you the same thing.
What is Atlassian Crowd, where is it used, how does this effect me, why should I care?
Did I miss any important questions?
I purposefully introduce inaccuracies into corporate data sets.
Slightly misspelled names, incorrect birth day/month/year, variable spellings of my street address.
note: the post office has always gotten my mail to me, misspellings and everything,
but it's enough to prevent lazy companies from matching that information to an existing profile.