Back in 2003 or 2004 I ordered a product from Amazon and they shipped the wrong version of the product (CD instead of DVD installation). There was no phone number listed on their website and the return process did not have an option for "sent the incorrect product". I could not get a response from their customer service and was charge $5 to return the item. I have not been back to Amazon since. Newegg has worked for me. When I search for products I rarely see things that I would buy on Amazon for more then a few dollars cheaper then I can get from other sources.
The first thing I thought when I looked at the graphs, what service plan are these people on. Most I know have the cheapest package they can find with connection speed upper bound at 1.5-5mbs. At those speeds the throughput Netflix is reporting look pretty good. I have a 20mbs connection (from an ISP not listed in the report) and over the summer I routinely streamed MLB.com (@ 8mbs), the wife would have a Netflix movie on her laptop, and the kids watching some show from Netflix as well. Aggregate bandwidth requirements were roughly 15mbs.
It fits: you get what you pay for, though I don't defend the prices or lack of sustained rate one typically finds with ISP's. I just found that good hardware, a decent home network configuration, and staying away from the cheapest bottom rung plan tend to go a long way.>/p>
I am an engineering for a large utility in the US, granted Civil not Electrical, but the principal for generation is:
You produce a little spare power that is grounded to handle increases (your buffer)
There are voltage regulators and capacitor banks at substations to handle small variations in load
Utilize peaking stations when the load on the grid is particularly high
The key for generation: RPM of the turbine, as load on the grid decreases it take less energy to maintain the speed of the turbine; so while a turbine may still be spinning at the same speed during high and low demand it is certainly not consuming as much fuel
With that being said, there is certainly a lag between the consumption of fuel and the utilization of that energy (steam to mechanical motion) that may produce a delay of an hour as load decreases. Utility companies have a great deal of data and they can generally predict when usage will change and adjust the fuel consumption accordingly.
Why are you putting up with that? Your tacit approval of the parents' unreasonable requirements is part of the problem.
Short Answer: For the kids that are not a pain in the butt.
Long Answer (sans explanation): Out of a moral and religious obligation (not that I would expect most slashdotters to comprehend)
Additional Note: Recently started working with this group of kids, and parents are being notified of the behavior and that it will not be tolerated; I hardly think I am part of the problem.
I totally agree with this sentiment. I work with a youth group at my church, mainly the teenage boys, and some are forced to attend by their parents, and they are impossible to control. Growing up I attended the same group and participated as I wished but did not actively cause problems at risk of punishment that may be doled out even though my parents could not really do anything (I just didn't really realize it). The kids today know that their parents and leaders can't do anything. A very dangerous line has been crossed in the American Society. Just my thoughts
One would think that the slashdot crowd would be a little more up-to-date. I guess it doesn't exist until Apple releases a comparable product. I can't believe I had to wade through tons of posts to find someone that finally extols the virtues of the marriage of laptop and hand writing. I spent the last two years working on my CE degree with an X61 Thinkpad Tablet. I went completely paperless, lowered the weight of my backpack to a few pounds, scanned all of the material handed out, and took notes in class with OneNote. Every item for school was converted to PDF and I was able to search, combine, cut and paste easily.
I wish this crowd would wake up and look more seriously at the tablets that have been around for 3 years. I know I should get off your lawn.
Really, you think the company that wont even put a measly FM radio tuner on their mobile audio devices is going to release a product that lets you view over the air TV broadcasts. Highly doubtful.
If course credit and a piece of paper is their payment to me then I got ripped off. I hate the higher education system, but have learned to deal with its shortcomings and maneuver through the system to get my piece of paper so that I could finally have my work experience count towards a PE license. I was very annoyed while streaming my graduation ceremony* that the president of the university bestowed my degree upon me with recommendation from the faculty. BS I earned that degree, fulfilled all requirements for such and in then end it was because they felt I was worthy not because I actually did anything.
*I only watched graduation because the president was speaking and wanted to hear what he would say to students who are thousands of dollars in debt as a result of school and graduating in a time of almost no jobs. Worst commencement speech I've ever heard (not that I've been to many graduations).
I long for the days of fully qualified URL's; 'http://www.domain.com'. I personally still type out the fully qualified domain names to half the websites I view each day (I typically only use bookmarks for address I use rarely). I also miss when the tld's meant something usefully and websites used a tld that matched their content
The internet does very little in addition to what I could already do in 1998 except now I have to deal with ads and pop-ups. I long for the days when individuals and companies setup webpages to showcase their interests or products not as revenue generators. I still run my webpages ad free and host my own servers because I want the information available.
I've used IBM/Lotus Sametime and thought it worked quite nice, and is very professional. Not sure what the fees are like, but it does support a myriad of platforms.
It drives me nuts when traffic violations are used as tax rather then for public safety, and these things typically get passed under the guise of safety.
Why the hell is a job search site collecting birth date, gender, and ethnicity information?
Most online applications have the optional equal opportunity information fields. Monster offers a way to auto submit this information. I'm not sure about the DOB, but this additional information is optional on Monster.
From what I heard they put up extra towers, and attempted to inform people of the potential problem. Encouraging users to not use the infrastructure is not surviving. If they had survived service would not have been interrupted based in normal use, not a reduction. Obviously I did not RTFA.
Myself, I feel profit margin is more important then profit total. I would rather own Rolls Royce the GMC. (I suppose GMC is probably a poor example now since they do not post a profit).
Schools play by their own rules regardless of how the world works. I view universities as a service I pay for. Therefore anything I create at a university (unless employed to work on) should inherently become my property. Even if I use school resources to create the item (I'm paying for those services). The one situation that may change this is if my education is being subsidized, such as at a state college. My feelings then is that the state should have a stake in ownership, not the university (they are not paying for it). And for other then military work the state should release the information into the public domain as it is paid for by tax dollars and should become the property of the people.
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The first thing I thought when I looked at the graphs, what service plan are these people on. Most I know have the cheapest package they can find with connection speed upper bound at 1.5-5mbs. At those speeds the throughput Netflix is reporting look pretty good. I have a 20mbs connection (from an ISP not listed in the report) and over the summer I routinely streamed MLB.com (@ 8mbs), the wife would have a Netflix movie on her laptop, and the kids watching some show from Netflix as well. Aggregate bandwidth requirements were roughly 15mbs.
It fits: you get what you pay for, though I don't defend the prices or lack of sustained rate one typically finds with ISP's. I just found that good hardware, a decent home network configuration, and staying away from the cheapest bottom rung plan tend to go a long way.>/p>
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Certainly needs to be asked.
Link Please
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Yes, this is a plain Jane SAS connector, as a comment above eludes, don't mix and match this drive with your RAID card.
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Question: 60fps, why?
Answer: Stereoscopic or 30fps x 2 streams
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I am an engineering for a large utility in the US, granted Civil not Electrical, but the principal for generation is:
You produce a little spare power that is grounded to handle increases (your buffer)
There are voltage regulators and capacitor banks at substations to handle small variations in load
Utilize peaking stations when the load on the grid is particularly high
The key for generation: RPM of the turbine, as load on the grid decreases it take less energy to maintain the speed of the turbine; so while a turbine may still be spinning at the same speed during high and low demand it is certainly not consuming as much fuel
With that being said, there is certainly a lag between the consumption of fuel and the utilization of that energy (steam to mechanical motion) that may produce a delay of an hour as load decreases. Utility companies have a great deal of data and they can generally predict when usage will change and adjust the fuel consumption accordingly.
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I define almost any tatoo as pointless. Besides how stupid were you 10 years ago?
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Dictionary.com
Paddock
3. Australian: any enclosed field or pasture
I also think you have Australia confused with Austria.
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Why are you putting up with that? Your tacit approval of the parents' unreasonable requirements is part of the problem.
Short Answer: For the kids that are not a pain in the butt.
Long Answer (sans explanation): Out of a moral and religious obligation (not that I would expect most slashdotters to comprehend)
Additional Note: Recently started working with this group of kids, and parents are being notified of the behavior and that it will not be tolerated; I hardly think I am part of the problem.
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I wish this crowd would wake up and look more seriously at the tablets that have been around for 3 years. I know I should get off your lawn.
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Your college credit is the salary.
If course credit and a piece of paper is their payment to me then I got ripped off. I hate the higher education system, but have learned to deal with its shortcomings and maneuver through the system to get my piece of paper so that I could finally have my work experience count towards a PE license. I was very annoyed while streaming my graduation ceremony* that the president of the university bestowed my degree upon me with recommendation from the faculty. BS I earned that degree, fulfilled all requirements for such and in then end it was because they felt I was worthy not because I actually did anything.
*I only watched graduation because the president was speaking and wanted to hear what he would say to students who are thousands of dollars in debt as a result of school and graduating in a time of almost no jobs. Worst commencement speech I've ever heard (not that I've been to many graduations).
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I long for the days of fully qualified URL's; 'http://www.domain.com'. I personally still type out the fully qualified domain names to half the websites I view each day (I typically only use bookmarks for address I use rarely). I also miss when the tld's meant something usefully and websites used a tld that matched their content
The internet does very little in addition to what I could already do in 1998 except now I have to deal with ads and pop-ups. I long for the days when individuals and companies setup webpages to showcase their interests or products not as revenue generators. I still run my webpages ad free and host my own servers because I want the information available.
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
Anyone have the link to the quiz?
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Why the hell is a job search site collecting birth date, gender, and ethnicity information?
Most online applications have the optional equal opportunity information fields. Monster offers a way to auto submit this information. I'm not sure about the DOB, but this additional information is optional on Monster.
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Myself, I feel profit margin is more important then profit total. I would rather own Rolls Royce the GMC. (I suppose GMC is probably a poor example now since they do not post a profit).
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HP has more systems in the top 500 than IBM
Something tells me it is more impressive to have majority stake in the top 10 super computers than in the remaining 490.
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