What is wrong with having odd metric sizes? I have a 355mL can of pop on my desk. I know it is a can of pop, the exact size to 3 significant figures doesn't matter.
As long as the packages stay about the same size and cost, people will accept it a bit better.
If sellers start dicking around with the size and price to rip people off, they'll be upset. Best would be to just put both sizes on the container.
Gotta love the Canadian way, it's a wonderful mesh of them. I'm 28 and from Southern Ontario so I might have a different opinion.
I use C for air, F for my furnace and swimming pools. I'm 5'11", but it's 50km to drive home.
I buy 1 kg of steak at the grocery store, order a 16oz steak at a restaurant, and weight 160lbs.
I buy gas in L, drive km, and people still insist on fuel efficiency in mpg (I use $/km, which is currently pretty close to $US/mile for my American friends)
The products my company sells are sized in mm, but they're called by the imperial size 1/2" 3/4" etc.
Metric is easier for length as long as you remember the decimal point for different units. 10m +150cm = 1150 cm or 11.5m This is much easier than 30'+59" = ????
If you are working on a metric or imperial item, staying with the same unit is easiest, using different units is annoying. My tape measure has both.
Angles, whatever you are used to is good. Radians are convenient for engineering purposes. Slopes ratios are good for construction. Degrees and grads are unnatural and not relaly good for much (IMNSHO)
Because the conservatives aren't a big business party in Canada. The Liberals have all the business friends, they make billions of dollars of 'loans' to large companies to keep them around. Guess who makes donations to the Liberal party.
The Conservatives want to lower corporate taxes, but their plan is to only lower the taxes by the amount the handouts are reduced by. So yes the companies will get $1 billion in tax cuts, but that will be made possible by not giving $1 billion in handouts to other companies.
With the minority government shaping up, there won't be a dictator at all.
Star trek is/was just a Sci-Fi Soap. Most episodes were a simple science fiction idea, combined with lots of character interaction and development. Good characters made people identify and stick around. An interesting idea, or bit of action would get people to pay attention and potentially buy in.
DS9 payed too much attention to the characters and lacked the variety of different ideas. Voyager I thought did a pretty good job moving back to ideas and characters.
Enterprise I don't know, kinda stopped watching TV, this whole "grown up" life thing gets in the way a lot.
They will allocate resources to the team. Determine priorities. Provide the direction to the team. Be your defender/face to other departments.
If they don't understand the technical details they might not allocate resources well, be it money, headcout etc. If they don't know what you are doing, when people complain they will not be able to defend you, and might take on the view that you are not doing your job.
Myself I like the technical stuff, but as I work, I do more directing and discussing and liason work. I'm realizing this is very important than the technical work I was doing before. I might have been very strong at it, but I'm adding more value at the more managerial side.
I understand people think managers don't do anything, but wouldn't your group and the company be in general better off having a capable manager? If that just happens to be me, so be it.
The problem is many things sometimes scale. CPU time is one. Make it faster, it scales well. Add another processor(2,4,8 way), it scales okay. Turn it into a distributed computer. Maybe it scaled, maybe it didn't. In some cases like rendering a movie it scales very well. In other cases it won't scale as well.
Many systems (social or technical) have corresponding constraints and issues. A bit of wisdom can make it all a bit more clear.
To those who would bash the specifics of the situation decades ago, don't you think in a few decades they'll be laughing at your typing code and being all excited about extreme programming and crap?
It will be the same problems in a different frame, but by then you'll be wise enough to realize it.
A contract is a formal agreement. If you did not read it, you can't have agreement, and hence no contract. Contracts can be overturned or broken if one can prove they did not understand or have an actual agreement.
I still disagree with you. But I appreciate your fair, well thought out response.
3) I think paid subscription can and will work if something of sufficient value is provided at a fair price. The fact that the paid model is weak does not prevent it from being successful.
You simply do not know how every newspaper in the world treats their address list.
You might think they behave this way, you likely know that some (10,100,1000) don't, but not all are like that.
I seriously doubt you are actually an influential knowledgable strategist. 1. You made the statement in my subject that is likely false, and even more likely unprovable by yourself. 2. 1% Falsification rate. This is a really small number, to state this with any certainty you would have to verify thousands of registrations. My own experience is mistakes are much more common. At least 2% of all junk mail I get has my name/address wrong. Even my credit report had my name misspelled. 3. The only working business model. You know for certain the paid subscription sites do not work? I have actually read that some subscription sites are profitable. Again a likely false statement that is likley unprovable by yourself.
The problem is many people don't know how to make a profit from their business. Most new businesses fail.
The internet is a very challenging competative environment, it has a low basic barrier to entry, but a strong network effect. Good competition minimizes profit. To be successful you must offer value to your customer.
The advertising model can work, google has well targeted ads. Ebay has capitalized on the network effect to provide more value then their competition. Linux companies have done good business selling free software. By adding value through control and management of that software. Computer consultants or job seekers have used their work on free software to advertise and prove their skills. (Linus is a good example here)
The fact that other companies or groups haven't figured out a business model isn't my problem. Either sell me a product I am willing to pay for, or go out of business.
Sorry, this is just too much. Not everything is a right or discrimination.
Yes men should be allowed to view female targetted ads.
Realistically companies target their advertising to the intended customer. This isn't a violation of your rights. They just wanted to target a different group.
You would be wasting time selling Maybachs in trailer parks, so don't bother trying.
I'll share the big secret to be successful and happy.
Find out what you want to do, then do it.
Really that's all there is to it. Most people who aren't happy set the wrong goals, they don't know what they want, or they spend their life chasing money. Sure wealth is fun, but you still need to live life on your way.
Beside that Gnome people managed to hide the 'switch off' switch deep down in GConf.
Surprising that a bunch of UI experts who are so much smarter than everyone else would go and hide the option they should know most people will want way down in some hard to find place.
When you break how a program works on purpose you should make it clear how to fix it.
I hope they do not try to glue a daily set of newspapers together before reading them...
I don't know about your newspaper, but mine comes in a single bundle of all sorts of unrelated sections. Sometimes they even have totally unrelated articles on a single page!!!.
Maybe if newspapers gave us the news in a convenient deck of shuffled index cards more people would read the dead tree version.
Wow, now we can watch crime. It doesn't actually prevent it, but now we know it is happening.
If someone gets made and gets in a fight, now we know who did it. It doesn't stop the fact that the assault has actually happened.
This money would probaly be better spent having a community policing program, you know those nice mellow "as seen on TV" cops that walk around being visible, and help defuse situations before they get to the point of calling 911.
Note I said mellow cops, the controlled professional ones who actually have an interest in community work, not the big goon cops who want to bust heads.
You forgot the side effects. If everyone has to pay twice as much for product from company A, they are also uncompetative.
Lets say company A makes computer CPU's in Taiwan. Every company in the world pays $100 for a new faster CPU, well except the US companies who have to pay $200 due to protectionism. Now repeat for everything a US company needs, foreign oil vs US oil, steel, textiles, glass, paper, office furniture, call center costs. Suddenly you've doubled the basic cost of doing business in the US. This will make the entire country internationally uncompetative. If the US was an isolated country this would be okay, but the way such a high standard of living is supported is through importing goods from cheap countries. Go through a store, be it Pier 1 imports (I wonder if it is imported) or Walmart.
What would happen to your standard of living if even half the stuff you bought at Walmart doubled in price? You'd need a substantial raise to maintain your current standard of living. Congrats you're now part of the high cost death spiral.
These types of solutions are a huge threat to the US economy, and most people don't seem to realize it.
If you really want to keep your current life style, you'll learn to roll with the punches, pick yourself up and get back in the game.
You can't keep your current standard of living. You won't have your parents standard of living, it just isn't going to happen for the masses.
Wages for the same work will become equal everywhere. There will be geographic imbalances but as transportation improves these will become smaller.
Two options for higher standards of living 1. Everyone gains this new standard. This means huge increases in output to bring the majority of the world to our level. This isn't likely in the next few years. It is possible, even likely to occur in a few generations.
2. Do unequal work, be more skilled more valuable, and do higher end work. This is how celebrities make millions doing what others do for free, they convince us that their work is "premium". This also goes for other products and services. People want the better car, nicer restaurant, classy strippers, instead of the crappy car, poor restaurant, and dieseased crack whore.
I started running only in console, but then when I got a faster computer I started running X.
Linux wasn't any slower, I was just running more resource intensive application.
Now I have started running GNOME, instead of just a window manager, I run multiple desktops, many loggers/status apps, and I leave several applications active at a given time. My computer is less responsive then before, but this is due to my usage pattern. If I wasn't interested in all these new features, I'd go back to afterstep and xterms.
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What is wrong with having odd metric sizes?
I have a 355mL can of pop on my desk.
I know it is a can of pop, the exact size to 3 significant figures doesn't matter.
As long as the packages stay about the same size and cost, people will accept it a bit better.
If sellers start dicking around with the size and price to rip people off, they'll be upset. Best would be to just put both sizes on the container.
No, because people don't like change.
Gotta love the Canadian way, it's a wonderful mesh of them.
I'm 28 and from Southern Ontario so I might have a different opinion.
I use C for air, F for my furnace and swimming pools.
I'm 5'11", but it's 50km to drive home.
I buy 1 kg of steak at the grocery store, order a 16oz steak at a restaurant, and weight 160lbs.
I buy gas in L, drive km, and people still insist on fuel efficiency in mpg (I use $/km, which is currently pretty close to $US/mile for my American friends)
The products my company sells are sized in mm, but they're called by the imperial size 1/2" 3/4" etc.
Metric is easier for length as long as you remember the decimal point for different units.
10m +150cm = 1150 cm or 11.5m
This is much easier than
30'+59" = ????
If you are working on a metric or imperial item, staying with the same unit is easiest, using different units is annoying. My tape measure has both.
Angles, whatever you are used to is good.
Radians are convenient for engineering purposes.
Slopes ratios are good for construction.
Degrees and grads are unnatural and not relaly good for much (IMNSHO)
Because the conservatives aren't a big business party in Canada.
The Liberals have all the business friends, they make billions of dollars of 'loans' to large companies to keep them around. Guess who makes donations to the Liberal party.
The Conservatives want to lower corporate taxes, but their plan is to only lower the taxes by the amount the handouts are reduced by.
So yes the companies will get $1 billion in tax cuts, but that will be made possible by not giving $1 billion in handouts to other companies.
With the minority government shaping up, there won't be a dictator at all.
Star trek is/was just a Sci-Fi Soap.
Most episodes were a simple science fiction idea, combined with lots of character interaction and development.
Good characters made people identify and stick around.
An interesting idea, or bit of action would get people to pay attention and potentially buy in.
DS9 payed too much attention to the characters and lacked the variety of different ideas.
Voyager I thought did a pretty good job moving back to ideas and characters.
Enterprise I don't know, kinda stopped watching TV, this whole "grown up" life thing gets in the way a lot.
Doesn't yahoo still permit pop access if you allow "directed marketing" emails?
Choose mail options, then POP access and forwarding.
I don't mind having an occasional targeted email for a free 100 meg pop account.
Now if only my ISP would let me have more then a 10 meg mailbox.
Managers have a simply defined job.
They will allocate resources to the team. Determine priorities. Provide the direction to the team. Be your defender/face to other departments.
If they don't understand the technical details they might not allocate resources well, be it money, headcout etc.
If they don't know what you are doing, when people complain they will not be able to defend you, and might take on the view that you are not doing your job.
Myself I like the technical stuff, but as I work, I do more directing and discussing and liason work. I'm realizing this is very important than the technical work I was doing before. I might have been very strong at it, but I'm adding more value at the more managerial side.
I understand people think managers don't do anything, but wouldn't your group and the company be in general better off having a capable manager? If that just happens to be me, so be it.
The problem is many things sometimes scale.
CPU time is one.
Make it faster, it scales well.
Add another processor(2,4,8 way), it scales okay.
Turn it into a distributed computer. Maybe it scaled, maybe it didn't.
In some cases like rendering a movie it scales very well. In other cases it won't scale as well.
Many systems (social or technical) have corresponding constraints and issues. A bit of wisdom can make it all a bit more clear.
To those who would bash the specifics of the situation decades ago, don't you think in a few decades they'll be laughing at your typing code and being all excited about extreme programming and crap?
It will be the same problems in a different frame, but by then you'll be wise enough to realize it.
A contract is a formal agreement. If you did not read it, you can't have agreement, and hence no contract.
Contracts can be overturned or broken if one can prove they did not understand or have an actual agreement.
I still disagree with you.
But I appreciate your fair, well thought out response.
3) I think paid subscription can and will work if something of sufficient value is provided at a fair price. The fact that the paid model is weak does not prevent it from being successful.
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You simply do not know how every newspaper in the world treats their address list.
You might think they behave this way, you likely know that some (10,100,1000) don't, but not all are like that.
I seriously doubt you are actually an influential knowledgable strategist.
1. You made the statement in my subject that is likely false, and even more likely unprovable by yourself.
2. 1% Falsification rate. This is a really small number, to state this with any certainty you would have to verify thousands of registrations. My own experience is mistakes are much more common. At least 2% of all junk mail I get has my name/address wrong. Even my credit report had my name misspelled.
3. The only working business model. You know for certain the paid subscription sites do not work? I have actually read that some subscription sites are profitable. Again a likely false statement that is likley unprovable by yourself.
The problem is many people don't know how to make a profit from their business. Most new businesses fail.
The internet is a very challenging competative environment, it has a low basic barrier to entry, but a strong network effect.
Good competition minimizes profit. To be successful you must offer value to your customer.
The advertising model can work, google has well targeted ads. Ebay has capitalized on the network effect to provide more value then their competition.
Linux companies have done good business selling free software. By adding value through control and management of that software.
Computer consultants or job seekers have used their work on free software to advertise and prove their skills. (Linus is a good example here)
The fact that other companies or groups haven't figured out a business model isn't my problem. Either sell me a product I am willing to pay for, or go out of business.
Sorry, this is just too much. Not everything is a right or discrimination.
Yes men should be allowed to view female targetted ads.
Realistically companies target their advertising to the intended customer. This isn't a violation of your rights. They just wanted to target a different group.
You would be wasting time selling Maybachs in trailer parks, so don't bother trying.
I'll share the big secret to be successful and happy.
Find out what you want to do, then do it.
Really that's all there is to it. Most people who aren't happy set the wrong goals, they don't know what they want, or they spend their life chasing money.
Sure wealth is fun, but you still need to live life on your way.
Beside that Gnome people managed to hide the 'switch off' switch deep down in GConf.
Surprising that a bunch of UI experts who are so much smarter than everyone else would go and hide the option they should know most people will want way down in some hard to find place.
When you break how a program works on purpose you should make it clear how to fix it.
I hope they do not try to glue a daily set of newspapers together before reading them...
I don't know about your newspaper, but mine comes in a single bundle of all sorts of unrelated sections. Sometimes they even have totally unrelated articles on a single page!!!.
Maybe if newspapers gave us the news in a convenient deck of shuffled index cards more people would read the dead tree version.
Choosing no is a valid option.
You could listen to your CD/MP3/tape player, or even just sing to yourself.
You don't need radio.
Wow, now we can watch crime.
It doesn't actually prevent it, but now we know it is happening.
If someone gets made and gets in a fight, now we know who did it. It doesn't stop the fact that the assault has actually happened.
This money would probaly be better spent having a community policing program, you know those nice mellow "as seen on TV" cops that walk around being visible, and help defuse situations before they get to the point of calling 911.
Note I said mellow cops, the controlled professional ones who actually have an interest in community work, not the big goon cops who want to bust heads.
You forgot the side effects.
If everyone has to pay twice as much for product from company A, they are also uncompetative.
Lets say company A makes computer CPU's in Taiwan. Every company in the world pays $100 for a new faster CPU, well except the US companies who have to pay $200 due to protectionism.
Now repeat for everything a US company needs, foreign oil vs US oil, steel, textiles, glass, paper, office furniture, call center costs.
Suddenly you've doubled the basic cost of doing business in the US.
This will make the entire country internationally uncompetative. If the US was an isolated country this would be okay, but the way such a high standard of living is supported is through importing goods from cheap countries. Go through a store, be it Pier 1 imports (I wonder if it is imported) or Walmart.
What would happen to your standard of living if even half the stuff you bought at Walmart doubled in price? You'd need a substantial raise to maintain your current standard of living. Congrats you're now part of the high cost death spiral.
These types of solutions are a huge threat to the US economy, and most people don't seem to realize it.
Oh, I'm not American.
If you really want to keep your current life style, you'll learn to roll with the punches, pick yourself up and get back in the game.
You can't keep your current standard of living. You won't have your parents standard of living, it just isn't going to happen for the masses.
Wages for the same work will become equal everywhere. There will be geographic imbalances but as transportation improves these will become smaller.
Two options for higher standards of living
1. Everyone gains this new standard. This means huge increases in output to bring the majority of the world to our level. This isn't likely in the next few years. It is possible, even likely to occur in a few generations.
2. Do unequal work, be more skilled more valuable, and do higher end work. This is how celebrities make millions doing what others do for free, they convince us that their work is "premium". This also goes for other products and services. People want the better car, nicer restaurant, classy strippers, instead of the crappy car, poor restaurant, and dieseased crack whore.
I make more then that as an Engineer.
Average starting wage is just over $20/hr right out of school.
Where are you? I'm not moving there.
Lawn care is serious business.
When I was in my teens I bought a C64 with only a few days work. How else can a kid make this kind of money, $20/hr.
The big companies are also serious business, those 4' wide monster mowers are serious machines. They can make good money doing fair work.
This is a competative market, with some profit to be made. You can do it yourself, but these service companies can provide a real value.
That and walking around outside on a sunny day isn't the evilest of jobs.
Look at third world countries, they don't have population control. They're suffering from starvation and diesease.
Just because here in land-of-plenty, it isn't so obvious doesn't mean the problems don't exist.
I started running only in console, but then when I got a faster computer I started running X.
Linux wasn't any slower, I was just running more resource intensive application.
Now I have started running GNOME, instead of just a window manager, I run multiple desktops, many loggers/status apps, and I leave several applications active at a given time.
My computer is less responsive then before, but this is due to my usage pattern.
If I wasn't interested in all these new features, I'd go back to afterstep and xterms.