The problem is, digging isn't exactly rocket surgery. It has its majority issues though. I don't believe the hard part is the digging though.
Making people happy you're digging beneath their feet is hard. Not hitting any existing underground utilities, a downright nightmare. The main problem, as always with public works infrastructure, is bureaucracy and nimbyism. The secondary problem is everyone with a modicum of power wants their cut.
How do you get people to agree to something where a handful get rewarded handsomely, some groups get a small net benefit, some groups get a small net deficit, most don't get anything, and usually a small handful get screwed.
The usgs national map viewer for some of the landsat data has recently moved to AWS and it is immensely faster and much more reliable. On AWS you tend to pay per bit though, so I suspect bandwidth charges are now a larger/variable portion of their costs vs before, which was probably a fixed line bandwidth cost which was constant.
Sounds exactly like back in the day. A ton of business apps embedded IE to render text and layouts. Removing it would break these apps because they assumed: I'm running. I only run on windows, therefore IE is available. Hence one reason (good/bad) that MS insisted IE couldn't be removed. It would cause a lot of hassle for the business customers.
The big problem about supplying electricity is the payback schedules for construction usually are of the order of 25-30 years. Anything that changes your assumptions can kill your ROI. Slowing down construction of other sources and lengthening out changes via litigation actually makes sense from that point of view. And infrastructure maintenance being payed for via KWH as an easy abstraction instead but does not cover costs if things like solar are used individually. Changing this to a connection cost would cause costs to vary wildly as well.
That said, maintenance is very seldom actually done, and renewables change the demand on the infrastructure drastically, and improving that is very costly.
As part of the election last november in Illinois. A lockbox provision was approved so that "transportation taxes" must only be spent on "transportation." I have been doing professional engineering services and consulting for IDOT, the Illinois Tollway, O'Hare, UP, CN railways etc. for 17 years, and it STILL took me a while to go through all the legalese on that question. It seems pretty thorough; Alas, I'm not a lawyer and currently waiting for all the legal contortions that will be spent to still spend that money on things that aren't quite related to transportation.
While also simplifying system software and compilers.
Every few years we hear about this. What makes this attempt any more likely than the previous attempt? We have to deal with the software we have now, not what we'd like it to be.
If your number is not in my contacts list, I don't even hear it. If it is not important enough to leave a voicemail of who you are and what number to call you back at, it is not important enough for me to care.
described as 'undervalued' relative to other streaming services
As opposed to those other streaming services continuing to lose money because the content owners keep charging too much and keep raising their rates?
Soon they will either have to make money, or fold. Music is in need of something, I don't know what. I'm still listening to music I bought decades ago, so I'm not sure how well I apply.
VLAN blocks probably won't last long. a simple 3g soc is in the several dollar range now. Supposed they split ad revenue with a cell provider so there would be no actual fee to the consumer and you'd have to wrap the fridge in tin foil to prevent ads, though in that case, I can't connect to the internet = non cold fridge. i.e. fridge is broke, call repairman...
Wonder if it could be structured like vaccination. In that case, some people react badly to being vaccinated, and there is insurance and legal indemnity for those cases, since in the vast majority of cases, it is profoundly useful. Admit it won't always be perfect, but when it isn't, we deal with the consequences and move on. Would laws to that effect ever be allowed?
This is also why they don't give you an option to put a cell modem in their laptops. Their solution: JUST BUY AN IPHONE. That is so convenient, WHY DON'T YOU WANT TO??
You think the great lakes are inexhaustible fresh water? Also, they are getting more and more polluted and more and more water is being removed each year. I believe that we are near the beginning as to how political it will be. It may rival the American southwest as to how much each municipality is allowed to take each year etc.
They're compact enough to throw in a messenger bag along with a laptop.
And when somebody takes your messenger bag, *poof* there goes your data AND your backup. Happened to my father, he was always backing stuff up. But he put his backup in his laptop bag. His truck was broken into one evening and the laptop bag was stolen. The data on the laptop was worth many multiples of the cost of the laptop. He would have been happier if they left the bag and took the truck! A fairly new truck that was worth less than the data lost.
Having to prove the new medicine is both better than the old one, with less side effects is indeed a worthwhile endeavor. However, from things I recall, a lot of trials test the new medicine vs non-treatment via placebo, not against the current best treatment.
One other issue is a lot of side effects are seen many years down the road for the newer targeted medicines. Are the side effects caused by the drug or normal human variation due to aging?
The final thing that needs to be investigated is the people who demand 'medicine' for everything. If you just give them the 'right' medicine, they dont' need to do anything else. See also: prescribing antibiotics for viral infections, weight loss pills, etc. If society is going to be paying for health care, can we as a society force others to live healthier? I would be first on the chopping block for not being quite as healthy as I probably should be, but that is the question everybody ignores.
God help you if you order gifts through amazon as well. 'I saw you buy X, you might like Y.' Uh, nope. That was for my sister. Thanks for trying though.
I would imagine bridge clearances and weight limits on bridges would be at least 2 of the issues leading to the path chosen. (others would be things like permits, powerlines etc)
Just don't commit any crimes... Just don't be associated with those who commit crimes. Don't be associated with those who are associated with people who commit crimes. Certainly don't walk/run/drive/bicycle through any place that has recently had a crime committed. Don't appear to be doing something worthy of being noticed, even if it is benign. Don't get in the way of people who would rather have what you have. Don't make people upset with you. Don't let people get upset with you even though they don't know you. Don't have the wrong skin color. Don't have the wrong gender.
People may argue slippery slope, but most of those are already being used EVERY SINGLE DAY to target people. Collection = abuse. You can't get around having it, if you're not gonna have people use it. Occasional news reports about people at the DMV grabbing celebrities police reports and that is stuff people think is necessary to collect! What about everything else? Also, the security of databases stinks. More so via people than technology.
If they haven't done it already, I'm sure they will soon do something like the following: We will lower the transactions fees for using debit/credit cards if you send us a list of items sold. (doesn't have to be with the transaction, just some time later would be sufficient, i.e. on a weekly or monthly basis). Though, now that I think about it more, it will go: We will RAISE the transaction fees unless you share the list of items sold...
People will not pay extraordinary amounts for slightly better hardware and software. (no apple doesn't count, they are good value for money, though you can't get good enough for low money from them.) Take for instance houses. People still make wood stick frame houses, even though they are quite lousy for insulation and longevity. A much better masonry or adobe house costs roughly 5-10% more, but they are very few and far between. Now take what most people are willing to pay for hardware ($0, free with subscription!) and software ($0). Now how does that figure into building them?
I don't even want to consider how many patents are involved in GPUs these days. Hardware AND Software have probably got to be in the 10s of thousands. If they started to get uppity and make something very good, they'd be blow out of the water in the courts because they couldn't possibly have gotten better without deliberately copying our patents...
One thing I have noticed is that a lot of people are Terrible at searching (or really doing anything complicated on a computer). People think nothing of asking siri complete questions, but only type 2 words into google and get upset they can't find anything. Asking google complete sentences has worked well for me for years. Show this technique to people and they are completely amazed. I know my mother is terrified of hitting the wrong button on her phone. How does this happen to people?
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The problem is, digging isn't exactly rocket surgery. It has its majority issues though. I don't believe the hard part is the digging though.
Making people happy you're digging beneath their feet is hard. Not hitting any existing underground utilities, a downright nightmare. The main problem, as always with public works infrastructure, is bureaucracy and nimbyism. The secondary problem is everyone with a modicum of power wants their cut.
How do you get people to agree to something where a handful get rewarded handsomely, some groups get a small net benefit, some groups get a small net deficit, most don't get anything, and usually a small handful get screwed.
The usgs national map viewer for some of the landsat data has recently moved to AWS and it is immensely faster and much more reliable. On AWS you tend to pay per bit though, so I suspect bandwidth charges are now a larger/variable portion of their costs vs before, which was probably a fixed line bandwidth cost which was constant.
Sounds exactly like back in the day. A ton of business apps embedded IE to render text and layouts. Removing it would break these apps because they assumed: I'm running. I only run on windows, therefore IE is available. Hence one reason (good/bad) that MS insisted IE couldn't be removed. It would cause a lot of hassle for the business customers.
The big problem about supplying electricity is the payback schedules for construction usually are of the order of 25-30 years. Anything that changes your assumptions can kill your ROI. Slowing down construction of other sources and lengthening out changes via litigation actually makes sense from that point of view. And infrastructure maintenance being payed for via KWH as an easy abstraction instead but does not cover costs if things like solar are used individually. Changing this to a connection cost would cause costs to vary wildly as well.
That said, maintenance is very seldom actually done, and renewables change the demand on the infrastructure drastically, and improving that is very costly.
As part of the election last november in Illinois. A lockbox provision was approved so that "transportation taxes" must only be spent on "transportation." I have been doing professional engineering services and consulting for IDOT, the Illinois Tollway, O'Hare, UP, CN railways etc. for 17 years, and it STILL took me a while to go through all the legalese on that question. It seems pretty thorough; Alas, I'm not a lawyer and currently waiting for all the legal contortions that will be spent to still spend that money on things that aren't quite related to transportation.
While also simplifying system software and compilers.
Every few years we hear about this. What makes this attempt any more likely than the previous attempt? We have to deal with the software we have now, not what we'd like it to be.
If your number is not in my contacts list, I don't even hear it. If it is not important enough to leave a voicemail of who you are and what number to call you back at, it is not important enough for me to care.
You can't trademark/copyright/patent a normal word. Anybody who doesn't anything with lyft HAS to be making money that is rightfully yours.
But is is a hard drive, a hybrid drive, an SSD, a floppy....
described as 'undervalued' relative to other streaming services
As opposed to those other streaming services continuing to lose money because the content owners keep charging too much and keep raising their rates?
Soon they will either have to make money, or fold. Music is in need of something, I don't know what. I'm still listening to music I bought decades ago, so I'm not sure how well I apply.
VLAN blocks probably won't last long. a simple 3g soc is in the several dollar range now. Supposed they split ad revenue with a cell provider so there would be no actual fee to the consumer and you'd have to wrap the fridge in tin foil to prevent ads, though in that case, I can't connect to the internet = non cold fridge. i.e. fridge is broke, call repairman...
Wonder if it could be structured like vaccination. In that case, some people react badly to being vaccinated, and there is insurance and legal indemnity for those cases, since in the vast majority of cases, it is profoundly useful. Admit it won't always be perfect, but when it isn't, we deal with the consequences and move on. Would laws to that effect ever be allowed?
This is also why they don't give you an option to put a cell modem in their laptops. Their solution: JUST BUY AN IPHONE. That is so convenient, WHY DON'T YOU WANT TO??
You think the great lakes are inexhaustible fresh water? Also, they are getting more and more polluted and more and more water is being removed each year. I believe that we are near the beginning as to how political it will be. It may rival the American southwest as to how much each municipality is allowed to take each year etc.
And when somebody takes your messenger bag, *poof* there goes your data AND your backup. Happened to my father, he was always backing stuff up. But he put his backup in his laptop bag. His truck was broken into one evening and the laptop bag was stolen. The data on the laptop was worth many multiples of the cost of the laptop. He would have been happier if they left the bag and took the truck! A fairly new truck that was worth less than the data lost.
Having to prove the new medicine is both better than the old one, with less side effects is indeed a worthwhile endeavor. However, from things I recall, a lot of trials test the new medicine vs non-treatment via placebo, not against the current best treatment.
One other issue is a lot of side effects are seen many years down the road for the newer targeted medicines. Are the side effects caused by the drug or normal human variation due to aging?
The final thing that needs to be investigated is the people who demand 'medicine' for everything. If you just give them the 'right' medicine, they dont' need to do anything else. See also: prescribing antibiotics for viral infections, weight loss pills, etc. If society is going to be paying for health care, can we as a society force others to live healthier? I would be first on the chopping block for not being quite as healthy as I probably should be, but that is the question everybody ignores.
God help you if you order gifts through amazon as well. 'I saw you buy X, you might like Y.' Uh, nope. That was for my sister. Thanks for trying though.
I refer to the old video console wars. 32 vs 64 bit processing etc. The new processors can work on 256bit pieces of data at once via AVX.
I would imagine bridge clearances and weight limits on bridges would be at least 2 of the issues leading to the path chosen. (others would be things like permits, powerlines etc)
Just don't commit any crimes...
Just don't be associated with those who commit crimes.
Don't be associated with those who are associated with people who commit crimes.
Certainly don't walk/run/drive/bicycle through any place that has recently had a crime committed.
Don't appear to be doing something worthy of being noticed, even if it is benign.
Don't get in the way of people who would rather have what you have.
Don't make people upset with you.
Don't let people get upset with you even though they don't know you.
Don't have the wrong skin color.
Don't have the wrong gender.
People may argue slippery slope, but most of those are already being used EVERY SINGLE DAY to target people. Collection = abuse. You can't get around having it, if you're not gonna have people use it. Occasional news reports about people at the DMV grabbing celebrities police reports and that is stuff people think is necessary to collect! What about everything else? Also, the security of databases stinks. More so via people than technology.
If they haven't done it already, I'm sure they will soon do something like the following: We will lower the transactions fees for using debit/credit cards if you send us a list of items sold. (doesn't have to be with the transaction, just some time later would be sufficient, i.e. on a weekly or monthly basis). Though, now that I think about it more, it will go: We will RAISE the transaction fees unless you share the list of items sold...
People will not pay extraordinary amounts for slightly better hardware and software. (no apple doesn't count, they are good value for money, though you can't get good enough for low money from them.) Take for instance houses. People still make wood stick frame houses, even though they are quite lousy for insulation and longevity. A much better masonry or adobe house costs roughly 5-10% more, but they are very few and far between. Now take what most people are willing to pay for hardware ($0, free with subscription!) and software ($0). Now how does that figure into building them?
I don't even want to consider how many patents are involved in GPUs these days. Hardware AND Software have probably got to be in the 10s of thousands. If they started to get uppity and make something very good, they'd be blow out of the water in the courts because they couldn't possibly have gotten better without deliberately copying our patents...
One thing I have noticed is that a lot of people are Terrible at searching (or really doing anything complicated on a computer). People think nothing of asking siri complete questions, but only type 2 words into google and get upset they can't find anything. Asking google complete sentences has worked well for me for years. Show this technique to people and they are completely amazed. I know my mother is terrified of hitting the wrong button on her phone. How does this happen to people?
Duck Season ...
Wabbit Season
Duck Season
Daffy tells bugs to fire and gets shot.
How the title is misleading.
Maybe it wasn't just harmless humor with all the gun issues these days and the lack of understanding.