Radio Shack has been a ripoff for years. Why the hell would anyone who knows enough to DIY pay $4 for a 5 cent part?
That's probably about what they need to charge to turn a profit. You can't pay a guy $10/hr (or whatever employees make there) and have him sell a handful of five cent parts in an hour.
This will not happen in the US outside of some niche industries. Companies have too much legal exposure to take the risk some porn site malware is logging credit card info from all the customers the support people helped today.
I don't know the laws in the UK, but I suspect the same would apply.
I remember those "pre-Reagan" years. Everybody was demanding (and getting) raises. We were so good at it, by the time we got our raise our paycheck was worth the same as last week. Well, actually, it was worth a little less than last week, since wages for normal people never keep up during inflationary times. You had to be in one of those big industrial unions to stay ahead. And where was that money coming from? The rest of us, of course. There's a reason things changed, just like there's a reason Americans are generally anti-union and anti-inflation.
Unions don't make everybody better off at the expense of greedy corporations. Of course companies don't care what wages are as long as their competitors are paying the same wages. They just raise the price of whatever it is they're making. What unions do is make union members better off at the expense of everybody else.
Oh and yes, damn those people and their "ill-gotten non-taxed wealth." Wait, who were those people, exactly?
I wonder how many of those cable subscribers are like me. I never watch television. In the last five years the only reason I ever fired up the TV is to watch a DVD I bought before streaming services became available or as a first-pass bit of troubleshooting when my internet connection stopped working. Where I live if you go with cable for internet you get basic cable television for free.
There is no excuse for self-proclaimed software authorities who don't know that software development covers much more than just Web-related or mobile apps. I've been developing software since before the Web was invented and I still don't have a website, I don't write apps for Android and there's no service on the Internet that I can point to and say "I did that all by myself!"
That was my reaction. The fact that someone can write an app all by himself tells me nothing about what I really want to know, which is "does he write code that can be maintained by other people?"
Secondly, "technical interview" is a misnomer. They're actually "potential colleague" interviews. Who is going to pick someone who is smarter than them, or who is going to give them competition for promotion?
I'm firmly ensconced in middle age now, and I've never met anyone who took that attitude. For one thing, programmers are pretty egotistical when it comes to their own technical prowess. As an interviewee, you aren't going to convince anyone you're smarter than they are in a twenty-minute technical interview. On the other side of the table, you're just hoping to God you don't end up with yet another loser who sounded great in the interview then couldn't accomplish anything without a whole lot of handholding. Also, management and people on other teams where you work don't see you. They see the team. If the other people on your team are incompetent people start to assume you're incompetent as well. Because why else would your product suck? "Oh, that guy is trying to transfer in from the mobile apps team? Forget it, we don't want anyone from that team."
If you actually do find yourself on a team where people are deliberately passing over capable people you should find another job. Making your way through life already involves dealing with mostly idiots. Why would you put yourself in the position of dealing with more than you have to, missing easy deadlines and generally pulling your hair because your code base is in such poor shape?
As far as promotions go, where I work middle management is constantly twisting arms trying to get people to take a supervisory "management track" position because nobody wants one. If you enjoy the technical aspects of your job it shouldn't take long to realize the fun stops when you go into management. If you don't... why the hell are you writing code for a living?
Study after study shows people with access to more health care live longer.
This is wrong. The right way to say it is "study after study show a correlation between money and life expectancy." But that is just as likely to be because sick people earn less money, spend more on medical care, and die at an earlier age.
Assuming progress is incremental There are a lot of things in the pipeline that might mean orders of magnitude smaller design rules. One of them will work out eventually.
But show me one that is cheap enough to afford to cover my roof with that the end total wattage is enough to cover something close to my power use (or more) and I'll do it.
On one hand you're saying you don't care about efficiency, but on the other you've put constraints on acceptable efficiency by stipulating the size of the array and the wattage. Efficiency matters, both because not everyone has an acre they can cover with cells and because there are costs that scale with the size of a solar cell array.
How would the judge know what the intention was? I guess the bank could subpoena the students friends and see if he ever admitted it. That's not what happened, though. Not to anyone I knew. The people in my class who did it had their debts discharged.
When I went to college student loans were subject to bankruptcy laws. And you couldn't get one unless the government guaranteed it. Banks will not lend large amounts of money to people with no assets and no credit history.
People were treating their loans like free money - they'd borrow as much money as possible with the intention of declaring bankruptcy upon graduation. This was costing the taxpayers too much money, which is why the rules were changed. I knew a guy who stayed in school well into his 30s with the intention of getting a bankruptcy court to erase more than a decade of his living expenses.
The other variable that factors in is price. The Blu-ray players themselves aren't that expensive, but if you have an old television you'll have to replace it to actually play Blu-ray discs. This is a change from previous generations - when VCRs and DVDs came out all I had to do was buy the player and hook it into my existing system.
I'm saying they don't really have to do anything else, and basically aren't, besides keeping stasis until the thing cools off. And it's literally about the half-life.
What you're saying would be true if they weren't leaking contaminated water. They're going to have to fix all the leaks, which won't be easy. And they're going to have to get the cooling systems working so they can stop the feed-n-bleed. Right now they're only able to cool the reactors by releasing contaminated steam. To say "they don't really have to do anything else" is only true if you don't mind discharging highly contaminated water into the ocean.
What a horrible comparison. The point of going to America was obvious in 1492. There was gold. There was land. There were furs, and trees. The timber alone was an impossible luxury to a European at the time. The natives were willing to trade valuable things for cheap glass beads. Europeans knew why they were going and what they hoped to accomplish. People could buy shares in an expedition and become wealthy if things worked out.
The moon is a lifeless rock. Travel costs are so high there are no resources you could bring back profitably. There's no point, and there never will be as long as we're using rockets to get there.
Nah. Online gambling isn't illegal. What's illegal is for banks to do business with online gambling companies. In theory as long as you had money at one of these establishments before the banking laws changed you can continue to play. Of course, you can't get your money back out if you win.
There are already third-party organizations that certify online gambling sites. No reason for the government to get involved.
This doesn't have much to do with gambling at all. Like money laundering laws what this is really about is taxes. The US government wants to make sure it can track every dollar you make and spend. What's to keep people from moving money around outside the sight of the all-seeing eye? Can't have that.
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That's probably about what they need to charge to turn a profit. You can't pay a guy $10/hr (or whatever employees make there) and have him sell a handful of five cent parts in an hour.
Is it? NASA has managed to spend a hell of a lot of money making far-fetched plans that never go anywhere.
This will not happen in the US outside of some niche industries. Companies have too much legal exposure to take the risk some porn site malware is logging credit card info from all the customers the support people helped today.
I don't know the laws in the UK, but I suspect the same would apply.
Right, right. What those poor "exploited" folks need, instead of a crappy job, is no job at all! Won't everyone be so so much happier?
I remember those "pre-Reagan" years. Everybody was demanding (and getting) raises. We were so good at it, by the time we got our raise our paycheck was worth the same as last week. Well, actually, it was worth a little less than last week, since wages for normal people never keep up during inflationary times. You had to be in one of those big industrial unions to stay ahead. And where was that money coming from? The rest of us, of course. There's a reason things changed, just like there's a reason Americans are generally anti-union and anti-inflation.
Unions don't make everybody better off at the expense of greedy corporations. Of course companies don't care what wages are as long as their competitors are paying the same wages. They just raise the price of whatever it is they're making. What unions do is make union members better off at the expense of everybody else.
Oh and yes, damn those people and their "ill-gotten non-taxed wealth." Wait, who were those people, exactly?
The problem is, as the article points out, the gap between the conceivable funding for bounties and the cost of removing the junk is quite large.
What would be the point of using lasers? You're not going to affect the orbit of a piece of space junk just by shining a laser on it.
I wonder how many of those cable subscribers are like me. I never watch television. In the last five years the only reason I ever fired up the TV is to watch a DVD I bought before streaming services became available or as a first-pass bit of troubleshooting when my internet connection stopped working. Where I live if you go with cable for internet you get basic cable television for free.
That was my reaction. The fact that someone can write an app all by himself tells me nothing about what I really want to know, which is "does he write code that can be maintained by other people?"
I'm firmly ensconced in middle age now, and I've never met anyone who took that attitude. For one thing, programmers are pretty egotistical when it comes to their own technical prowess. As an interviewee, you aren't going to convince anyone you're smarter than they are in a twenty-minute technical interview. On the other side of the table, you're just hoping to God you don't end up with yet another loser who sounded great in the interview then couldn't accomplish anything without a whole lot of handholding. Also, management and people on other teams where you work don't see you. They see the team. If the other people on your team are incompetent people start to assume you're incompetent as well. Because why else would your product suck? "Oh, that guy is trying to transfer in from the mobile apps team? Forget it, we don't want anyone from that team."
If you actually do find yourself on a team where people are deliberately passing over capable people you should find another job. Making your way through life already involves dealing with mostly idiots. Why would you put yourself in the position of dealing with more than you have to, missing easy deadlines and generally pulling your hair because your code base is in such poor shape?
As far as promotions go, where I work middle management is constantly twisting arms trying to get people to take a supervisory "management track" position because nobody wants one. If you enjoy the technical aspects of your job it shouldn't take long to realize the fun stops when you go into management. If you don't... why the hell are you writing code for a living?
This is wrong. The right way to say it is "study after study show a correlation between money and life expectancy." But that is just as likely to be because sick people earn less money, spend more on medical care, and die at an earlier age.
Assuming progress is incremental There are a lot of things in the pipeline that might mean orders of magnitude smaller design rules. One of them will work out eventually.
I have 6mbps from Comcast. It wouldn't do me any good to have more than that, since the sites I stream tend to max out at a far lower rate.
You're paying more than $52/month, it's just that part of it is paid in your tax bill.
On one hand you're saying you don't care about efficiency, but on the other you've put constraints on acceptable efficiency by stipulating the size of the array and the wattage. Efficiency matters, both because not everyone has an acre they can cover with cells and because there are costs that scale with the size of a solar cell array.
How would the judge know what the intention was? I guess the bank could subpoena the students friends and see if he ever admitted it. That's not what happened, though. Not to anyone I knew. The people in my class who did it had their debts discharged.
When I went to college student loans were subject to bankruptcy laws. And you couldn't get one unless the government guaranteed it. Banks will not lend large amounts of money to people with no assets and no credit history.
People were treating their loans like free money - they'd borrow as much money as possible with the intention of declaring bankruptcy upon graduation. This was costing the taxpayers too much money, which is why the rules were changed. I knew a guy who stayed in school well into his 30s with the intention of getting a bankruptcy court to erase more than a decade of his living expenses.
A big mainframe... like this one?
The other variable that factors in is price. The Blu-ray players themselves aren't that expensive, but if you have an old television you'll have to replace it to actually play Blu-ray discs. This is a change from previous generations - when VCRs and DVDs came out all I had to do was buy the player and hook it into my existing system.
What you're saying would be true if they weren't leaking contaminated water. They're going to have to fix all the leaks, which won't be easy. And they're going to have to get the cooling systems working so they can stop the feed-n-bleed. Right now they're only able to cool the reactors by releasing contaminated steam. To say "they don't really have to do anything else" is only true if you don't mind discharging highly contaminated water into the ocean.
"self-sufficient"? No chance.
What a horrible comparison. The point of going to America was obvious in 1492. There was gold. There was land. There were furs, and trees. The timber alone was an impossible luxury to a European at the time. The natives were willing to trade valuable things for cheap glass beads. Europeans knew why they were going and what they hoped to accomplish. People could buy shares in an expedition and become wealthy if things worked out.
The moon is a lifeless rock. Travel costs are so high there are no resources you could bring back profitably. There's no point, and there never will be as long as we're using rockets to get there.
What kind of cost is that? I'll worry about it when they find something useful for people to do in space.
Nah. Online gambling isn't illegal. What's illegal is for banks to do business with online gambling companies. In theory as long as you had money at one of these establishments before the banking laws changed you can continue to play. Of course, you can't get your money back out if you win.
There are already third-party organizations that certify online gambling sites. No reason for the government to get involved.
This doesn't have much to do with gambling at all. Like money laundering laws what this is really about is taxes. The US government wants to make sure it can track every dollar you make and spend. What's to keep people from moving money around outside the sight of the all-seeing eye? Can't have that.