You don't count (almost) all the other countries on the planet being metric as a huge push?
No, because it doesn't matter. Anyone doing business internationally can set their CNC machines to "metric" mode and toggle their digital calipers to metric with a single button push. That's if the design isn't in metric already, some are. Machinists, at least in my industry, really doesn't care if the dimension they are trying to cut is 4.000" or 3.937" (100mm). It's just a readout on a digital display to them.
The US doesn't export building materials ("2x4"s, etc.) in any significant amount so that is irrelevant. Anyone shipping products to the US can go to the trouble of making them in imperial measurements if that is important for the product. For most products these days, it isn't.
I saw the article linked with things some folks want, and hated most of it. Vehicles? Really?
Done the right way, I think they could do vehicles right. Just look at GTA5- if you play in first person all of the time, the game is a believably realistic crime simulator. They sunk a lot of time and effort into making every aspect of the vehicles realistic, including believable damage models (cosmetic AND physical), realistic handling physics, etc. It is quite a departure from the arcade feel of the previous GTA games and IMO a huge improvement.
The last Fallout games, on the other hand, could do with a dose of realism. But Bethesda has shown time and again that they can't make a physics engine notbebuggy.
Why would you go for that when the Toshiba SCS-T160 is far cheaper and can be installed in a US home for $30 in parts (excluding the electrical outlet)?
I rarely use the water spray, but the heated seat and no-slam lid are very nice.
Be careful with water. Don't get me wrong, I plan to incorporate water features into my house. But humidity has profoundly negative effects on many aspects of housing, from the walls to your furniture to your books and so forth, and a water feature with inadequate circulation is a good recipe for high humidity. In a bad case (as a plant nut I've had this happen), in a cold winter it can make its way through the ceiling and the insulation and freeze out on the roof, and then when it warms up melt back into your house.
Water can be nice, but don't skimp on the ventilation!:)
I'm 99% sure that the parent was referring to outdoor water features. Like fountains, waterfalls, and ponds.
Back in Pentium 66 days Intel shipped a bunch of mother boards that made it impossible to disable power management.
We were shipping a 386 mode extended DOS batch application (long story). To keep the machines from powering down during a run we suggested a workaround. A thermal water cup pecking bird with a paper clip attached to hit the shift key on every peck.
I sent a copy of the 'tech bulletin' to a friend who worked at Intel, thinking they should make it an official workaround. They never did.
Because you made it all up? Anyone who has actually played with the drinking bird knows that they can't generate anywhere near as much force as the keyboards of that era required in order to register a keystroke.
If you think Micro-A USB is popular, wait until you see your grandkids getting devices with USB-C.
Surely you can't be serious? USB has only been around for 20 years and in that time they have gone through 10 different types of plugs, 7 of which I have personally used and probably 5 of which most people would agree were "commonly used". We'll have a new plug in less than 10 years, probably less than 5. Unless you already have grandkids of walking age, I really can't agree with your prediction.
Yeah, the Coast Guard is just a giant waste of money... Nice try. This is regarding TSA screening in airports, your laundry list is a different subject.
I think that was for comparison purposes. As in, the TSA costs a lot more than a lot of other programs which actually accomplish something.
Although it is a bit startling to me that the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) costs as much as it does. $3.2 billion a year, and that organization is basically only in charge of processing paperwork for people applying for visas, resident cards, and citizenship. AND they collect hefty fees for their services- we paid USCIS about $1500 in total for my wife's visa and permanent resident card. Many of their employment-based visa programs are even more expensive.
This. Uber may be run by (as stated by another/.er) "the most punchable management shit weasels" but at least they are committing to this free market idea we supposedly support instead of trying to suppress wages.
Don't give them too much credit, they really had no choice. Senior management at Uber decided their next step is to make driverless cars. They seem to be very serious about this. In driverless car competition, you either play small and hope to be bought out or play big and hope to be the winner at the end of the day. They need to move fast because others have a head start, and they have a blank piece of paper. They need some leading experts in the field in order to catch up to where Google was 2 years ago.They don't have time to find qualified candidates that will accept below market rates. If they tried to suppress wages for this project, the project wouldn't happen. It doesn't mean they won't suppress wages on other projects, or even later on this project after they get a production product.
A big screen TV is no longer a rich man's luxury. The best displays are about $2,000. If you pay more, either you're paying for a brand, or you are buying a jumbo screen that's 65" or higher. Which even then, it isn't going to exceed $10,000 unless either you buy snake oil shit (think the 'monster cable' of TVs) or you buy something that's so big it can't even fit into the living room of a typical mansion.
The rich man's luxury these days depends on the kind of rich man you are. Some like coke and sex parties, some like menageries, some like exotic car collections, some like Learjets, some like live-in sushi chefs, and some like to own one of every kind of weapon in existence.
John Mcafee for example loves coke and sex parties.
That's the way it always has been. The rich aren't satisfied with consumer goods and never have been. Here's just a couple examples from the 1920s. Drugs and underaged girls aren't a recent invention.
Going with the free email from your ISP means that you lose your email address if/when you switch to another ISP.
Thats why you own your own domain. Hosting company goes out of business,you switch to another. You can even forward it to someone else if you prefer their mail interface.
Anyone smarter than me who can comment on if marijuana affects the vagus nerve? The list of ailments allegedly cured seems similar and both the vagus nerve and marijuana are not completely understood.
The SAT is one of the most useless measures of knowledge or capability the world has ever seen. Standardized tests don't work, they've never worked and we know they don't tell us about a persons true intelligence. So if China wants to take a SAT for me, go ahead.
If non-Chinese nationals are doing this, don't you think Chinese nationals are doing this too? Everything is for sale in China. Would it bother you if you or your children didn't make it to your preferred university because a cheater beat you out?
You can't build a net so high that someone can't fly over.
It's hard to build a net that can't be easily cut through.
It's hard to build a net that doesn't destroy the view.
Automated point defense turrets loaded with high-tensile silly string?
Looks like there are a lot of highly skilled and highly paid people in the companies I looked... the opposite of the Slashdot narrative of indentured servants working on minimum wage.
And then there's this from TFA:
In Négri’s opinion, that could be a trick to bring in a technically skilled worker at a lower cost: “If the title says software engineer, you pay a lot” to stay in compliance with the H-1B laws that require immigrants to be paid the prevailing wage, he says. “If the title says ‘consultant’, instead of $130,000 you might pay $60,000, the gap is that big.” He pointed to a “technology lead” for Infosys in Sunnyvale, Calif., listed in the database as having a salary of $87,000. “That’s not much for Silicon Valley,” Négri says.
While it may not be minimum wage or indentured servitude, the point about wage suppression still has merit.
Companies do play games with the titles. Another way that wages are suppressed is by bringing in a foreign worker at the prevailing local rate. Take a look at the numbers for Accenture. The vast majority of their H1-B hires are just barely more than the prevailing rate. In most cases, within $100.
I have also heard that it is very common for a company to claim on H1-B applications a higher salary than was actually paid to the employee.
We're not talking grid back-haul though, we're talking a few tens of metres maximum within a house. I've wondered for a while if it would be more efficient to have moderately high voltage DC room-to-room and then low-voltage DC in rooms. Given the number of things in my house that would prefer a DC supply and so end up with (cheap and inefficient) AC to DC convertors per plug (and especially if you use LED lighting), it seems like it ought to be a win. And now seems like a good time to do it, as USB-C is a consumer connector that can provide up to 100W via something that's designed to be very cheap to produce in the lower power variations.
USB 1.0 came on the scene in 1995, 20 years ago. Since then, there have been at least 10 different plug types. Some of these never caught on, and some are now depreciated, but I have personally used 7 different plug types in different devices over the years. I have yet to see a USB-C connector yet, and I am usually a first adopter.
Do you really want this connector madness to be permanently installed in your house? It will be obsolete in 5 years.
All of this also presupposes that you have either a proper surround virtualizer or a discrete 5.1 speaker system such as is found in a properly set up home theater. Considering that less than a third of homes have any kind of surround sound in them, and given the loudness issues, I'm not certain what the benefits will be here. But it gets even worse, as dialog in multichannel AC-3 and E-AC-3 is steered to the center channel in most programs, whereas in stereo content it is mixed into left and right without regard to position. This can result in disturbance to the listener.
First off, $70k isn't poor. Not even in California.
That depends on where it is and if it's a family or just a person. Just a person in the boonies making $70k is doing great. A family literally anywhere (even someplace totally shit) in the Bay Area living on $70k? They're scraping by, because over half of that is likely to go to rent or mortgage, when conventional wisdom says not to spend more than a quarter.
The thing that baffles me is his salary. 70k is absolutely entry level for a merchant mariner. I had friends make more than that right out of school. And being a merchant mariner, he can live anywhere. It is almost standard practice to fly at the company's expense to wherever the boat is. Even the lowest paid philipinos get a free plane ticket on both ends of their tour.
There are many cases where even republicans go on record stating man made climate change.
It is basicly the Oil industry who is trying to keep the doubt about it.
So the politicians Democrat or republican (mostly republican) who come from the Energy Producing states. Will play onto the spew to keep themselves elected.
Politics are not Pro- or Anti-Science. It is weather the science is political useful for them or not. Otherwise they will be happy putting their head in the sand.
Have you ever visited a coal mining town that doesn't mine coal anymore? The end result is almost always a severely depressed area, rampant poverty, high unemployment and underemployment, high drug use and abuse, prostitution, etc. A lot (millions) of people live in oil towns and oil cities in the US. For the good of the world, maybe we need to cut back on oil and gas. But the politicians would not be doing their job if they didn't represent the people who elected them.
I see a lot of people calling for an end to oil and gas but nobody ever makes a plan, or offers to fund a plan, on how to retrain all the workers, repurpose the assets, align interconnected industries, etc. It hasn't been done because the problem is a lot more difficult than environmentalists ever imagine.
The unmanned shuttle will fly to a height of approximately 70 kilometers before splashing down in the Bay of Bengal. Oddly, the vehicle itself probably won't be recovered.
How can it be called a Shuttle if it's only going to be used once?
And while we are at it, since the beginning of "space" is generally accepted to be 100KM and this thing is only going up 70KM, the "space" part of its name is inaccurate too.
But I guess "space shuttle" sounds better than "big can we're chucking high up into the air and then letting sink into the ocean".
India does things on the cheap. This is what happens when your engineers have degrees from the school of Kerbal Space Program.
If you pick a black person and then pick a random victim, it's more likely the victim will be white than black, because there are more white people than black people.
Then why are there more murders committed by black people (against all sorts of victims) then would be accounted for by their percentage of the population? What is your point, exactly? Yes, there are more "white" people than "black" people in the general population. That's not what's being discussed. What's being discussed is the rate of crime coming out of specific demographics.
My car doesn't have a 12V outlet, you insensitive clod (and if it did, the polaritity would be reversed) -- car built in '57, with positive ground wiring.
Then reverse the wires going to the receptacle. An ANSI/SAE J563 receptacle in a positive-ground vehicle would have -12 to -15 V on the can and ground on the tip.
That seems inherently unsafe. Not dangerously unsafe, but unsafe nonetheless. Having the ground be the first contact made is standard practice for a reason.
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You don't count (almost) all the other countries on the planet being metric as a huge push?
No, because it doesn't matter. Anyone doing business internationally can set their CNC machines to "metric" mode and toggle their digital calipers to metric with a single button push. That's if the design isn't in metric already, some are. Machinists, at least in my industry, really doesn't care if the dimension they are trying to cut is 4.000" or 3.937" (100mm). It's just a readout on a digital display to them.
The US doesn't export building materials ("2x4"s, etc.) in any significant amount so that is irrelevant. Anyone shipping products to the US can go to the trouble of making them in imperial measurements if that is important for the product. For most products these days, it isn't.
This has been around for years. A device from last year uses the same joule thief circuit.
I saw the article linked with things some folks want, and hated most of it. Vehicles? Really?
Done the right way, I think they could do vehicles right. Just look at GTA5- if you play in first person all of the time, the game is a believably realistic crime simulator. They sunk a lot of time and effort into making every aspect of the vehicles realistic, including believable damage models (cosmetic AND physical), realistic handling physics, etc. It is quite a departure from the arcade feel of the previous GTA games and IMO a huge improvement.
The last Fallout games, on the other hand, could do with a dose of realism. But Bethesda has shown time and again that they can't make a physics engine not be buggy.
Aren't party members invincible?
Not commonly so in any of the Fallout games I have played. Keeping party members alive has always been a challenge.
A Kohler San Tropez Bidet.
Because I'm worth it.
http://www.us.kohler.com/us/ca...
Why would you go for that when the Toshiba SCS-T160 is far cheaper and can be installed in a US home for $30 in parts (excluding the electrical outlet)?
I rarely use the water spray, but the heated seat and no-slam lid are very nice.
Be careful with water. Don't get me wrong, I plan to incorporate water features into my house. But humidity has profoundly negative effects on many aspects of housing, from the walls to your furniture to your books and so forth, and a water feature with inadequate circulation is a good recipe for high humidity. In a bad case (as a plant nut I've had this happen), in a cold winter it can make its way through the ceiling and the insulation and freeze out on the roof, and then when it warms up melt back into your house.
Water can be nice, but don't skimp on the ventilation! :)
I'm 99% sure that the parent was referring to outdoor water features. Like fountains, waterfalls, and ponds.
Back in Pentium 66 days Intel shipped a bunch of mother boards that made it impossible to disable power management.
We were shipping a 386 mode extended DOS batch application (long story). To keep the machines from powering down during a run we suggested a workaround. A thermal water cup pecking bird with a paper clip attached to hit the shift key on every peck.
I sent a copy of the 'tech bulletin' to a friend who worked at Intel, thinking they should make it an official workaround. They never did.
Because you made it all up? Anyone who has actually played with the drinking bird knows that they can't generate anywhere near as much force as the keyboards of that era required in order to register a keystroke.
If you think Micro-A USB is popular, wait until you see your grandkids getting devices with USB-C.
Surely you can't be serious? USB has only been around for 20 years and in that time they have gone through 10 different types of plugs, 7 of which I have personally used and probably 5 of which most people would agree were "commonly used". We'll have a new plug in less than 10 years, probably less than 5. Unless you already have grandkids of walking age, I really can't agree with your prediction.
Yeah, the Coast Guard is just a giant waste of money... Nice try. This is regarding TSA screening in airports, your laundry list is a different subject.
I think that was for comparison purposes. As in, the TSA costs a lot more than a lot of other programs which actually accomplish something.
Although it is a bit startling to me that the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) costs as much as it does. $3.2 billion a year, and that organization is basically only in charge of processing paperwork for people applying for visas, resident cards, and citizenship. AND they collect hefty fees for their services- we paid USCIS about $1500 in total for my wife's visa and permanent resident card. Many of their employment-based visa programs are even more expensive.
This. Uber may be run by (as stated by another /.er) "the most punchable management shit weasels" but at least they are committing to this free market idea we supposedly support instead of trying to suppress wages.
Don't give them too much credit, they really had no choice. Senior management at Uber decided their next step is to make driverless cars. They seem to be very serious about this. In driverless car competition, you either play small and hope to be bought out or play big and hope to be the winner at the end of the day. They need to move fast because others have a head start, and they have a blank piece of paper. They need some leading experts in the field in order to catch up to where Google was 2 years ago.They don't have time to find qualified candidates that will accept below market rates. If they tried to suppress wages for this project, the project wouldn't happen. It doesn't mean they won't suppress wages on other projects, or even later on this project after they get a production product.
I'd like to cite a precedence in case law; viz. Finders v. Keepers...
I'm not familiar with that one. Maybe you meant Keepers v. Weepers?
A big screen TV is no longer a rich man's luxury. The best displays are about $2,000. If you pay more, either you're paying for a brand, or you are buying a jumbo screen that's 65" or higher. Which even then, it isn't going to exceed $10,000 unless either you buy snake oil shit (think the 'monster cable' of TVs) or you buy something that's so big it can't even fit into the living room of a typical mansion.
The rich man's luxury these days depends on the kind of rich man you are. Some like coke and sex parties, some like menageries, some like exotic car collections, some like Learjets, some like live-in sushi chefs, and some like to own one of every kind of weapon in existence.
John Mcafee for example loves coke and sex parties.
That's the way it always has been. The rich aren't satisfied with consumer goods and never have been. Here's just a couple examples from the 1920s. Drugs and underaged girls aren't a recent invention.
Going with the free email from your ISP means that you lose your email address if/when you switch to another ISP.
Thats why you own your own domain. Hosting company goes out of business,you switch to another. You can even forward it to someone else if you prefer their mail interface.
Who would have thought having trees, shrubs and other natural barriers between an airport and the people would reduce noise levels?
It's as if clear cutting was found not to work.
At long last, business is booming!
Anyone smarter than me who can comment on if marijuana affects the vagus nerve? The list of ailments allegedly cured seems similar and both the vagus nerve and marijuana are not completely understood.
The SAT is one of the most useless measures of knowledge or capability the world has ever seen. Standardized tests don't work, they've never worked and we know they don't tell us about a persons true intelligence. So if China wants to take a SAT for me, go ahead.
If non-Chinese nationals are doing this, don't you think Chinese nationals are doing this too? Everything is for sale in China. Would it bother you if you or your children didn't make it to your preferred university because a cheater beat you out?
You can't build a net so high that someone can't fly over. It's hard to build a net that can't be easily cut through. It's hard to build a net that doesn't destroy the view.
Automated point defense turrets loaded with high-tensile silly string?
Looks like there are a lot of highly skilled and highly paid people in the companies I looked... the opposite of the Slashdot narrative of indentured servants working on minimum wage.
And then there's this from TFA:
In Négri’s opinion, that could be a trick to bring in a technically skilled worker at a lower cost: “If the title says software engineer, you pay a lot” to stay in compliance with the H-1B laws that require immigrants to be paid the prevailing wage, he says. “If the title says ‘consultant’, instead of $130,000 you might pay $60,000, the gap is that big.” He pointed to a “technology lead” for Infosys in Sunnyvale, Calif., listed in the database as having a salary of $87,000. “That’s not much for Silicon Valley,” Négri says.
While it may not be minimum wage or indentured servitude, the point about wage suppression still has merit.
Companies do play games with the titles. Another way that wages are suppressed is by bringing in a foreign worker at the prevailing local rate. Take a look at the numbers for Accenture. The vast majority of their H1-B hires are just barely more than the prevailing rate. In most cases, within $100.
I have also heard that it is very common for a company to claim on H1-B applications a higher salary than was actually paid to the employee.
We're not talking grid back-haul though, we're talking a few tens of metres maximum within a house. I've wondered for a while if it would be more efficient to have moderately high voltage DC room-to-room and then low-voltage DC in rooms. Given the number of things in my house that would prefer a DC supply and so end up with (cheap and inefficient) AC to DC convertors per plug (and especially if you use LED lighting), it seems like it ought to be a win. And now seems like a good time to do it, as USB-C is a consumer connector that can provide up to 100W via something that's designed to be very cheap to produce in the lower power variations.
USB 1.0 came on the scene in 1995, 20 years ago. Since then, there have been at least 10 different plug types. Some of these never caught on, and some are now depreciated, but I have personally used 7 different plug types in different devices over the years. I have yet to see a USB-C connector yet, and I am usually a first adopter.
Do you really want this connector madness to be permanently installed in your house? It will be obsolete in 5 years.
All of this also presupposes that you have either a proper surround virtualizer or a discrete 5.1 speaker system such as is found in a properly set up home theater. Considering that less than a third of homes have any kind of surround sound in them, and given the loudness issues, I'm not certain what the benefits will be here. But it gets even worse, as dialog in multichannel AC-3 and E-AC-3 is steered to the center channel in most programs, whereas in stereo content it is mixed into left and right without regard to position. This can result in disturbance to the listener.
I'm deaf in one ear, you insensitive clod!
First off, $70k isn't poor. Not even in California.
That depends on where it is and if it's a family or just a person. Just a person in the boonies making $70k is doing great. A family literally anywhere (even someplace totally shit) in the Bay Area living on $70k? They're scraping by, because over half of that is likely to go to rent or mortgage, when conventional wisdom says not to spend more than a quarter.
The thing that baffles me is his salary. 70k is absolutely entry level for a merchant mariner. I had friends make more than that right out of school. And being a merchant mariner, he can live anywhere. It is almost standard practice to fly at the company's expense to wherever the boat is. Even the lowest paid philipinos get a free plane ticket on both ends of their tour.
There are many cases where even republicans go on record stating man made climate change. It is basicly the Oil industry who is trying to keep the doubt about it. So the politicians Democrat or republican (mostly republican) who come from the Energy Producing states. Will play onto the spew to keep themselves elected.
Politics are not Pro- or Anti-Science. It is weather the science is political useful for them or not. Otherwise they will be happy putting their head in the sand.
Have you ever visited a coal mining town that doesn't mine coal anymore? The end result is almost always a severely depressed area, rampant poverty, high unemployment and underemployment, high drug use and abuse, prostitution, etc. A lot (millions) of people live in oil towns and oil cities in the US. For the good of the world, maybe we need to cut back on oil and gas. But the politicians would not be doing their job if they didn't represent the people who elected them.
I see a lot of people calling for an end to oil and gas but nobody ever makes a plan, or offers to fund a plan, on how to retrain all the workers, repurpose the assets, align interconnected industries, etc. It hasn't been done because the problem is a lot more difficult than environmentalists ever imagine.
And while we are at it, since the beginning of "space" is generally accepted to be 100KM and this thing is only going up 70KM, the "space" part of its name is inaccurate too.
But I guess "space shuttle" sounds better than "big can we're chucking high up into the air and then letting sink into the ocean".
India does things on the cheap. This is what happens when your engineers have degrees from the school of Kerbal Space Program.
If you pick a black person and then pick a random victim, it's more likely the victim will be white than black, because there are more white people than black people.
Then why are there more murders committed by black people (against all sorts of victims) then would be accounted for by their percentage of the population? What is your point, exactly? Yes, there are more "white" people than "black" people in the general population. That's not what's being discussed. What's being discussed is the rate of crime coming out of specific demographics.
Income inequality if the largest driver of murders. Homicide has a r=0.8 correlation with income inequality.. 10% of whites are in poverty in the USA, but 27% of blacks are in poverty. Poverty (income inequality), crime, and race are all related in the USA. That's not good, but it does open options because there are a lot more levers available to pull. Reduce minority poverty, and minority crime will probably drop too. There are lots of ways to do that, but it takes a huge effort to do so.
My car doesn't have a 12V outlet, you insensitive clod (and if it did, the polaritity would be reversed) -- car built in '57, with positive ground wiring.
Then reverse the wires going to the receptacle. An ANSI/SAE J563 receptacle in a positive-ground vehicle would have -12 to -15 V on the can and ground on the tip.
That seems inherently unsafe. Not dangerously unsafe, but unsafe nonetheless. Having the ground be the first contact made is standard practice for a reason.