The problem is that the manager is getting paid to fill hours, and keep the place running, not to serve people. It's a metric problem - you get the behavior you encourage. If you pay hourly pay, with no bonuses for sales or performance, then customers are just a hassle. If the manager had some kind of bonus riding on how many people were served, or $$ of good/service sold, his attitude would adjust itself. Maybe.
Sudden surges of people when you're not manned up to deal with it is still a problem.
I generally agree with you. Better laws is a compelling reason for strict enforcement. Strict enforcement means speeding judges, cops, and mayors get tickets for the same behavior that I do. Current enforcement leaves a gaping loophole for those in power to exploit. We wind up with effectively different laws for people who are better able to control the flow in information (about how fast they were going, for example).
Petty issue: I think the 85% thing is the enforcement level - cops are looking for the fastest 15% (who are also over the limit). Whether they are safer or not is arguable. Most of them think they are the best drivers on the road, unfortunately.:-(
The real safety problem isn't speed though, it's inattention. "I didn't see that guy..." Happened just yesterday here, when a guy makes a right hand turn onto a busy road and takes down a motorcycle cop. Needless to say, he was cited, no camera needed. (Cop had only scrapes and bruises, thankfully.) If he had swiped me, it would have been my word against his who was at fault. So I want cameras.
This doesn't bother me as long as the cameras are completely public. That is, they are essentially web-cams whose content is recorded. Anyone can review any part of any recording. Anyone can make/keep their own copy of the video. CRCs digital signatures stored as "official copies" in multiple locations, etc. (e.g. some protection against screwing with the images after the fact.)
I like the idea of a transparent society. Let's be as transparent as possible - that is the best way to weaken entrenched power.
But then, I'm the guy who's number one desired feature on my next car is the ability issue tickets around me for bad driving. I want to be able to turn into a cop, only with the paperwork automated. Having full time camera on every inch of roadway is the closest I can get for the moment...
No, I don't value your "privacy" on public roadways. Its a public space. You don't get to be private in public. You have to play nice with the other kids.
I'll take off the flame-retardant suit in a few days. Maybe.
Seriously, and nothing to do with religion, if I ever have kids I will move heaven and earth to keep them out of anything resembling a public school. I am absolutely convinced the system I went through is the worst possible way to educate human beings. And the "socialization" is criminal. Seriously, people should be jailed for perpetuating it. The NEA and AFT have a lot to answer for.
It won't make people safer. It won't stop people speeding. After a week drivers will forget the thing is even there, till someone somewhere uses the data in it to fuck them in the ass. (Metaphorically.)
So... you're speeding down the road, minding your own business when suddenly you lose control, sideswipe another car pushing it across the median into headon traffic. You continue on your merry way (no significant damage to _your_ vehical). Next day the police show up at your house and download the contents of your black box and.... long story short they use the data to "fuck you up the ass".
Well, IMHO, you deserve it. That is exactly why I want black boxes on all cars, so assholes like this get fucked up the ass.
According to the article, it's not battery powered - you have a power cord exiting the abdomen. This isn't quite as exotic as it sounds - there are actually a lot of conditions that are treated to day with implants that protrude from the body in one way or another. (e.g. catheters for hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis)
This is not to say that these turbines might not be battery powered in the future.
Ultimately though, the battery will die along with the rest of the body. So, it becomes a race to see if your body rots enough to spring a leak, or your battery goes dead. I would guess that once you lose very much blood, the turbine will undergo a dramatic increase in friction - the blood acts as the bearing support/lubricant (essentially). No blood = dry bearing = lots of resistance and excessive wear --> quick failure of turbine or battery.
Can I have mine with a funky neon light and crisscross clear tubing?
And whilst your fitting all this, could you upgrade my cpu?
hehe:-) I think CPU upgrades are a few years off yet. Though according to some people, overclocking is now available via chemistry (with some side effects...)
A lot of hospitals use automated blood pressure and pulse equipment to keep tabs on patients. Currently, this equipment can sound an alarm to attract the attention of a nurse if BP or pulse gets out of whack.
So... it appears we'll have to come up with a new way to measure blood pressure, particularly. Presumably, the best way to do this is to fit the turbine with inlet and discharge pressure sensors, and a flow meter. Step 2 is to establish some sort of numbers for what is "normal" for turbine heart patients.
This ups the ante for health care professionals by a bit. Not only do you need to know normal ranges, consequences, and treatments for standard BP and pulse ranges, you would need to be familiar with turbine pressure and flow ranges as well.
I'll volunteer the Lake Tahoe article for your consideration as such a flawed article. Sample: the article implies that Lake Tahoe receives more vistors in the winter than the summer. Exactly the opposite of the truth (easily verifiable-- check room rates at the lake - the rise and fall with demand, and are always higher in the summer.) Also, construction is ongoing at the lake on both the CA and NV sides, and rules about impact are continuously under discusion. Residential construction is almost entirely custom homes, not "controled by developers", unless you consider individual property owners "developers". The article has other shortcomings as well - it reads as if someone who believes the Lake is overdeveloped is half-heartedly pretending to be neutral. Finding others is left as an exercise for the reader.
I like Wikipedia and have contributed to articles. I think it has weaknesses, but I think most of those weaknesses are countered by the additional features - EB doesn't let you see their edit history, and you can't sit in on the discussions/arguments about the content. Both are possible with Wikipedia.
Using Wiki requires some caution. It certainly isn't perfect. But with an understanding of how and why it works, your essential underlying point (that Wiki is a reliable source for information) is correct.
Of course, what you should be complaining about is that a "mod parent up" got modded up. Really, I don't think that was an "insiteful" comment on my part.
Will I see a return, or will the value plummet when trading begins?
No offense, but if any of us knew that, we'd be retired and living like kings in Patagonia already...
Point taken. I don't know what market cap they are claiming - I'll take your word for it.
My reaction was based on the "$135/share? that's _so_high_!" reaction early in the comments. $135/share by itself is almost meaningless. It's ultimately all about the P/E ratio, and your expectation for growth of the company. But I'm guessing _you_ know that...:-)
Ultimately, your buying a piece of the company. Higher price per share is perfectly fine if you're getting a bigger piece of the company.
Consider 2 businesses of equal value doing IPO. One creates 1000 shares, and sells them for $10 per share. The other creates 100 shares and sells them for $100 per share. Which is the better deal? Duh! it's the same deal (essentially).
In this case, it appears Google is (or thinks it is) selling "large chunks" of the company. They could offer instead 10 times as many shares, for only $13.50 a piece. Maybe this would be smart. It apparently would suck in a large number of Slashdot readers!
And this crowd is supposed to be math-sci literate! How depressing... I think I'll go off and cry about the poor state of the nation's youth now.
Put your crap in the trunk of your car and head north. Duh. Do it already.
Of course when you get there your likely to discover that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence - and educated Canadian's are bailing out of the country left and right. See, the thing with socialism is that business of EQUALITY - where the high-school dropout screwing around working part-time in construction has the same right to the same stuff as you with your hard-earned degree, working 40+ hours a week. It isn't fair if you get more than him, is it? Well, of course not. So we'll levy hefty taxes on you so that we can provide him with all the stuff he otherwise couldn't afford...
But you're certainly welcome to go if you want. Not me. I know too many ex-Canadians. Well, a lot of them have very mixed feelings about it. They don't like to make the connection betwen socialist goverment and lower wages for highly skilled people. Everyone wants their cake and the right to eat it too...
My point was to consider the wall from the point of view of the builders. The builders of the Berlin Wall (the East German Government) built the wall to keep people in.
This gets into a philosophical argument about which side of a wall is the inside, and which side is the outside. It appears that you are arguing that the shorter surface must be the inside. I am arguing that this side facing the builder is the inside. Given my definition of inside and outside (with the "inside" of the Berlin Wall being the East German side), and that the obvious intent of the wall was to keep East Germans on the East German side (regardless of whether that is the "inside" or the "outside" of the wall).....
Well, at any point, a rather weak joke has been completely beaten to death...
But it is somewhat entertaining to argue pendantic details of definitions.:-)
The point is that the builders of the Berlin Wall intended to keep people in. Thus -> "Break Out"
By contrast, the Israeli's are trying to keep people out. Thus -> "Break In".
Just to clarify for anyone who cares, I'm sympathetic to the Israeli position. I believe the number of bombings have dropped substantially in areas where the wall is up now. I was suprised by this - I didn't really think it would work, but it appears I was wrong.
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Sudden surges of people when you're not manned up to deal with it is still a problem.
Like you get a small glow-in-the-dark Wolverine figure, when you see X-Men n, and you even get a chance at having X-Men like kids of your own!
It's just at questing of selling it right.
Yes, but will my X-Men-like kids be able to spell? I want them to get into a good college.
Petty issue: I think the 85% thing is the enforcement level - cops are looking for the fastest 15% (who are also over the limit). Whether they are safer or not is arguable. Most of them think they are the best drivers on the road, unfortunately. :-(
The real safety problem isn't speed though, it's inattention. "I didn't see that guy..." Happened just yesterday here, when a guy makes a right hand turn onto a busy road and takes down a motorcycle cop. Needless to say, he was cited, no camera needed. (Cop had only scrapes and bruises, thankfully.) If he had swiped me, it would have been my word against his who was at fault. So I want cameras.
This doesn't bother me as long as the cameras are completely public. That is, they are essentially web-cams whose content is recorded. Anyone can review any part of any recording. Anyone can make/keep their own copy of the video. CRCs digital signatures stored as "official copies" in multiple locations, etc. (e.g. some protection against screwing with the images after the fact.)
I like the idea of a transparent society. Let's be as transparent as possible - that is the best way to weaken entrenched power.
But then, I'm the guy who's number one desired feature on my next car is the ability issue tickets around me for bad driving. I want to be able to turn into a cop, only with the paperwork automated. Having full time camera on every inch of roadway is the closest I can get for the moment...
No, I don't value your "privacy" on public roadways. Its a public space. You don't get to be private in public. You have to play nice with the other kids.
I'll take off the flame-retardant suit in a few days. Maybe.
A: Atlanta
Thats correct, however we would have accepted
A: Tbilisi
Only if you can pronounce it correctly.
Seriously, and nothing to do with religion, if I ever have kids I will move heaven and earth to keep them out of anything resembling a public school. I am absolutely convinced the system I went through is the worst possible way to educate human beings. And the "socialization" is criminal. Seriously, people should be jailed for perpetuating it. The NEA and AFT have a lot to answer for.
What's particularly funny about this is that the slave does _less_ work. The master has the extra burden of arbitrating the bus...
Boss: Johnson, have you taken your pill today? Johnson: er... no, I was just about to get to that!
So... you're speeding down the road, minding your own business when suddenly you lose control, sideswipe another car pushing it across the median into headon traffic. You continue on your merry way (no significant damage to _your_ vehical). Next day the police show up at your house and download the contents of your black box and.... long story short they use the data to "fuck you up the ass".
Well, IMHO, you deserve it. That is exactly why I want black boxes on all cars, so assholes like this get fucked up the ass.
This is not to say that these turbines might not be battery powered in the future.
Ultimately though, the battery will die along with the rest of the body. So, it becomes a race to see if your body rots enough to spring a leak, or your battery goes dead. I would guess that once you lose very much blood, the turbine will undergo a dramatic increase in friction - the blood acts as the bearing support/lubricant (essentially). No blood = dry bearing = lots of resistance and excessive wear --> quick failure of turbine or battery.
And whilst your fitting all this, could you upgrade my cpu?
hehe :-) I think CPU upgrades are a few years off yet. Though according to some people, overclocking is now available via chemistry (with some side effects...)
So... it appears we'll have to come up with a new way to measure blood pressure, particularly. Presumably, the best way to do this is to fit the turbine with inlet and discharge pressure sensors, and a flow meter. Step 2 is to establish some sort of numbers for what is "normal" for turbine heart patients.
This ups the ante for health care professionals by a bit. Not only do you need to know normal ranges, consequences, and treatments for standard BP and pulse ranges, you would need to be familiar with turbine pressure and flow ranges as well.
I like Wikipedia and have contributed to articles. I think it has weaknesses, but I think most of those weaknesses are countered by the additional features - EB doesn't let you see their edit history, and you can't sit in on the discussions/arguments about the content. Both are possible with Wikipedia.
Using Wiki requires some caution. It certainly isn't perfect. But with an understanding of how and why it works, your essential underlying point (that Wiki is a reliable source for information) is correct.
NPOV enough for you? :-)
Of course, what you should be complaining about is that a "mod parent up" got modded up. Really, I don't think that was an "insiteful" comment on my part.
Geez! sorry, I just wrote down what I was thinking. Been working too long for a major corporation, maybe...
Will I see a return, or will the value plummet when trading begins? No offense, but if any of us knew that, we'd be retired and living like kings in Patagonia already...
This is the only post I've seen with anything close to the information needed to make a purchase/no purchase decision.
My reaction was based on the "$135/share? that's _so_high_!" reaction early in the comments. $135/share by itself is almost meaningless. It's ultimately all about the P/E ratio, and your expectation for growth of the company. But I'm guessing _you_ know that... :-)
Consider 2 businesses of equal value doing IPO. One creates 1000 shares, and sells them for $10 per share. The other creates 100 shares and sells them for $100 per share. Which is the better deal? Duh! it's the same deal (essentially).
In this case, it appears Google is (or thinks it is) selling "large chunks" of the company. They could offer instead 10 times as many shares, for only $13.50 a piece. Maybe this would be smart. It apparently would suck in a large number of Slashdot readers!
And this crowd is supposed to be math-sci literate! How depressing... I think I'll go off and cry about the poor state of the nation's youth now.
Why would this be a bad thing? Would they charge us more than $17.99/CD?
Of course when you get there your likely to discover that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence - and educated Canadian's are bailing out of the country left and right. See, the thing with socialism is that business of EQUALITY - where the high-school dropout screwing around working part-time in construction has the same right to the same stuff as you with your hard-earned degree, working 40+ hours a week. It isn't fair if you get more than him, is it? Well, of course not. So we'll levy hefty taxes on you so that we can provide him with all the stuff he otherwise couldn't afford...
But you're certainly welcome to go if you want. Not me. I know too many ex-Canadians. Well, a lot of them have very mixed feelings about it. They don't like to make the connection betwen socialist goverment and lower wages for highly skilled people. Everyone wants their cake and the right to eat it too...
For the good of all, please add and preview.
This gets into a philosophical argument about which side of a wall is the inside, and which side is the outside. It appears that you are arguing that the shorter surface must be the inside. I am arguing that this side facing the builder is the inside. Given my definition of inside and outside (with the "inside" of the Berlin Wall being the East German side), and that the obvious intent of the wall was to keep East Germans on the East German side (regardless of whether that is the "inside" or the "outside" of the wall).....
Well, at any point, a rather weak joke has been completely beaten to death...
But it is somewhat entertaining to argue pendantic details of definitions. :-)
By contrast, the Israeli's are trying to keep people out. Thus -> "Break In".
Just to clarify for anyone who cares, I'm sympathetic to the Israeli position. I believe the number of bombings have dropped substantially in areas where the wall is up now. I was suprised by this - I didn't really think it would work, but it appears I was wrong.
That would be "Break In"