Was it some worker who made a mistake and hit the wrong button or something?
No, it's not possible that criminal blame lies in that direction. Gross negligence, in the case where the worker put himself in a position where he was bound to make such a mistake, maybe, but if it's a genuine worker mistake, then any criminal blame, if such exists, lies with those who created a situation where a single worker mistake can undermine the whole operation with such severe consequences.
No, what they need to do is drill the relief wells at the same time as the main well. Since it's too late for that, they need to drill the relief wells asap. Which they're doing.
Unfortunately, threading a spaghetti noodle into a hole at the bottom of over a kilometer of water and pushing it through several km of rock turns out to be a tricky process that's very time consuming. Especially when you have to paste your noodle together a dozen or so meters at a time. Also, it would look really bad if they scrimped on the safety features of those wells..
Ironically, all other manufacturers concern themselves with "features" above all else. Function and Aesthetics take a severe back seat. You'll get a lot of features you can't use, or are "coming soon" (which in phone-model speak means "in another model in a few years. Your model, while capable, will not even get a software update to fix the bugs and security problems. Let alone enabling features that you paid for. Not when we can make you buy a whole new phone in addition to an expensive monthly add-on..")
The thing about the "slippery slope" fallacy, is that it's most often derided as fallacy by people with a brush in one hand and a can of "slope grease" in the other...
Your issue was with over-charging. Many laptop manufactures used to (and probably still do) keep the battery connected to the charging circuitry whenever it's plugged in, constantly trickle-charging it. It saves money on power supplies twofold: by eliminating a costly interrupter circuit, and by using the battery itself as a low-pass filter in to the motherboard.
Unfortunately, this practice is just as bad, if not worse, than deep-cycling, which is why Apple suggested that you cycle the battery a bit. They're probably wagering that it'll take you at least two years to hit the 500 cycle lithium discharge milestone, whereas over-charging can damage your battery much more quickly. (I used up a toshiba battery in less than two months by leaving it connected. Something which should not have been an issue for a laptop sold in a category called, "desktop replacement.")
I'd wager that they're incorrect about the full-cycling, though. You have to do it at least once, and once in a while, to program the charging logic, but lithium-ion batteries get more cycle life the shallower you drain them, and they don't like to be stored empty or low. You ought to be fine as long as you don't keep it plugged in on a full charge too much.
You should run the battery completely down (wait until the thing shuts down, start it up again, rinse, repeat) at least once a month. If you don't do this the power management has no idea about the charge the battery can actually hold and will shut down much too early.
Interesting theory, but you're better off not doing that and just putting up with an inaccurate battery meter. The deeper you cycle, the faster you consume the battery, and it's not linear. I'd expect advice like this from someone who makes a living selling batteries....
The nook has over a gig of regular internal space, which corresponds to about a thousand illustrated books, or about five thousand just text. It'd be difficult to read that much without ever being near a cell tower or computer. You certainly couldn't make it between charges.
But yeah, somehow the card slot is a selling point.
Far better, I think, would be to hire the programmers you can afford, and if possible divide into competing groups for the first milestone, at which point, you pick the better idea, divide into new groups, and set those groups to work on the next milestone.
You can't run a business like a game show for very long without burning everyone out.
I'd like a flat-rate "unlimited"/always-on minimum plan with speed-boost (i.e. allow bursts of high speed as long as the minute or five-minute average is under the allotted bandwidth)
And combine that with metered packets (optimized for speed, latency, or whatever.): Set up a flag in the resource request packet or a side channel to establish which packets will be paid for and how many.
I'd like to be able to set my own cap on how many metered packets can go through, so that I'll never get stuck with an un-planned for bill.
There's nothing inherently wrong with metered pricing, and indeed, it provides an incentive for the telcos to upgrade infrastructure: if you're paying per-packet, more packets mean more money! But there need to be tools for the customers to be able to control their own costs, too, or else it's just a trap to gouge people.
"growth" is overrated. What's wrong with reaching your asymptote and just plugging away making steady profits?
Also, where the heck can you find a company that's interested in "just" providing a good service to their customers at a profit for the long haul? I'd like to invest in some, but I can't pick them out from the companies that are looking to have good numbers for the fall quarterly so that the VP can unload his interest on unsuspecting small-timers.
I wouldn't mind having a printer that doesn't gouge me on ink, but I'm not changing operating systems to print, and I really want to limit my hacking around the problem time.
Then don't get a printer that uses ink. It's cheaper to use the dye sub machines at the drug store anyway, for the few things you actually want color for.
There are two ways to fold a newspaper. You have discovered method one: the broadway show guy-on-a-park-bench method. Most people not about to enter a song and dance number do not read it this way.
The other way is to fold it over till it's about book-sized. the pages are set up so that this is convenient, except for stupid papers that don't break columns on the fold. This is how real people read the newspaper with their breakfast, or on the train. (but not the subway, where you need to keep an eye out for sketchy people and mysterious liquids.)
Yeah, but a sizeable tax base that takes care of it self doesn't really need the things that government takes their money for to begin with. You don't need entitlements if you have a decent job, after all.
I think we should claim that our tradition is to constantly fire off starter pistols throughout the games. Guns are a traditional american fetish, and starter pistols are just like guns, only less hurty.
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If they were successful in cleaning up the mess, then there wouldn't be a crisis to take advantage of anymore...
Just, fyi, one of the best solvents you can use to remove duck tape is gasoline...
Was it some worker who made a mistake and hit the wrong button or something?
No, it's not possible that criminal blame lies in that direction. Gross negligence, in the case where the worker put himself in a position where he was bound to make such a mistake, maybe, but if it's a genuine worker mistake, then any criminal blame, if such exists, lies with those who created a situation where a single worker mistake can undermine the whole operation with such severe consequences.
No, what they need to do is drill the relief wells at the same time as the main well. Since it's too late for that, they need to drill the relief wells asap. Which they're doing.
Unfortunately, threading a spaghetti noodle into a hole at the bottom of over a kilometer of water and pushing it through several km of rock turns out to be a tricky process that's very time consuming. Especially when you have to paste your noodle together a dozen or so meters at a time. Also, it would look really bad if they scrimped on the safety features of those wells..
Ironically, all other manufacturers concern themselves with "features" above all else. Function and Aesthetics take a severe back seat. You'll get a lot of features you can't use, or are "coming soon" (which in phone-model speak means "in another model in a few years. Your model, while capable, will not even get a software update to fix the bugs and security problems. Let alone enabling features that you paid for. Not when we can make you buy a whole new phone in addition to an expensive monthly add-on..")
Yes, but ICANN HAS PORN!
The thing about the "slippery slope" fallacy, is that it's most often derided as fallacy by people with a brush in one hand and a can of "slope grease" in the other...
There is cake. Now pass it on so everybody gets some. Don't be greedy.
Your issue was with over-charging. Many laptop manufactures used to (and probably still do) keep the battery connected to the charging circuitry whenever it's plugged in, constantly trickle-charging it. It saves money on power supplies twofold: by eliminating a costly interrupter circuit, and by using the battery itself as a low-pass filter in to the motherboard.
Unfortunately, this practice is just as bad, if not worse, than deep-cycling, which is why Apple suggested that you cycle the battery a bit. They're probably wagering that it'll take you at least two years to hit the 500 cycle lithium discharge milestone, whereas over-charging can damage your battery much more quickly. (I used up a toshiba battery in less than two months by leaving it connected. Something which should not have been an issue for a laptop sold in a category called, "desktop replacement.")
I'd wager that they're incorrect about the full-cycling, though. You have to do it at least once, and once in a while, to program the charging logic, but lithium-ion batteries get more cycle life the shallower you drain them, and they don't like to be stored empty or low. You ought to be fine as long as you don't keep it plugged in on a full charge too much.
What part of "they're not really the same market, although there is some overlap" do people not seem to understand???
You should run the battery completely down (wait until the thing shuts down, start it up again, rinse, repeat) at least once a month. If you don't do this the power management has no idea about the charge the battery can actually hold and will shut down much too early.
Interesting theory, but you're better off not doing that and just putting up with an inaccurate battery meter. The deeper you cycle, the faster you consume the battery, and it's not linear. I'd expect advice like this from someone who makes a living selling batteries....
The nook has over a gig of regular internal space, which corresponds to about a thousand illustrated books, or about five thousand just text. It'd be difficult to read that much without ever being near a cell tower or computer. You certainly couldn't make it between charges.
But yeah, somehow the card slot is a selling point.
Ugly people settle all the time....
Well, they can't tell the difference between red meat (mammalian) and white meat (fowl), so at least they're consistent.
Ahh, the "Survivor" model of programming.
Far better, I think, would be to hire the programmers you can afford, and if possible divide into competing groups for the first milestone, at which point, you pick the better idea, divide into new groups, and set those groups to work on the next milestone.
You can't run a business like a game show for very long without burning everyone out.
Unfortunately, the electrodes *do* wear out too much. The zinc, iirc, is the real consumable in a potato battery, not the potato itself.
Combo.
I'd like a flat-rate "unlimited"/always-on minimum plan with speed-boost (i.e. allow bursts of high speed as long as the minute or five-minute average is under the allotted bandwidth)
And combine that with metered packets (optimized for speed, latency, or whatever.): Set up a flag in the resource request packet or a side channel to establish which packets will be paid for and how many.
I'd like to be able to set my own cap on how many metered packets can go through, so that I'll never get stuck with an un-planned for bill.
There's nothing inherently wrong with metered pricing, and indeed, it provides an incentive for the telcos to upgrade infrastructure: if you're paying per-packet, more packets mean more money! But there need to be tools for the customers to be able to control their own costs, too, or else it's just a trap to gouge people.
"growth" is overrated. What's wrong with reaching your asymptote and just plugging away making steady profits?
Also, where the heck can you find a company that's interested in "just" providing a good service to their customers at a profit for the long haul? I'd like to invest in some, but I can't pick them out from the companies that are looking to have good numbers for the fall quarterly so that the VP can unload his interest on unsuspecting small-timers.
On the other side of it, though, it's also hard to find a professional in the vast field of "nephews" out there pretending to be such....
Interesting. Although I find it hard to believe that even a malware DNS would be slower than my ISP's DNS...
I wouldn't mind having a printer that doesn't gouge me on ink, but I'm not changing operating systems to print, and I really want to limit my hacking around the problem time.
Then don't get a printer that uses ink. It's cheaper to use the dye sub machines at the drug store anyway, for the few things you actually want color for.
There are two ways to fold a newspaper. You have discovered method one: the broadway show guy-on-a-park-bench method. Most people not about to enter a song and dance number do not read it this way.
The other way is to fold it over till it's about book-sized. the pages are set up so that this is convenient, except for stupid papers that don't break columns on the fold. This is how real people read the newspaper with their breakfast, or on the train. (but not the subway, where you need to keep an eye out for sketchy people and mysterious liquids.)
Yeah, but a sizeable tax base that takes care of it self doesn't really need the things that government takes their money for to begin with. You don't need entitlements if you have a decent job, after all.
I think we should claim that our tradition is to constantly fire off starter pistols throughout the games. Guns are a traditional american fetish, and starter pistols are just like guns, only less hurty.
A few drinks later, it doesn't really matter though, I'll take a nice nap until I hear the landing gear go down. :)
Based on what I've seen of pilots, they're thinking the same thing....