A related issue we see is that since our people do not get wide exposure or training, there are classes of errors which are hard for them to fix.
We (finally) had an outside expert come in to audit our settings on our hardware and the changes resulted in a roughly 5% improvement in performance without causing any failures. 5% doesn't sounds like much but it's probably a few million in hardware so even $200 an hour for a week is justified. It's a one time thing- but at least have them drop by once a year IMHO.
What's stopping me? I'm fine. It's my friends who are not. And large concentrations of people in other states. I'm drawing a conclusion based on history.
Fortunately we don't have automated turrets yet. And if we did, they would have points of failure. The end result is a Somalian situation. The rich there don't live in the same kind of luxury and safety that the rich here do.
I think I'll be very old or if lucky- dead- before it all comes to pass. But I do speak and vote towards a better society with shorter working hours, reasonable tariffs on products made in countries which destroy the environment (we shouldn't be allowed to purchase from them to get around our pollution laws).
With robotics and automation you could be looking at extended 20% unemployment with no benefits.
Hungry people tend to get violent and take desperate actions. You can't imprison 10% of your population. What's coming up in the next 10 - 20 years is a change on par with the industrial revolution-- only there are not enough jobs for humans on the other side of that change.
There will be more smart, more educated, more dumb manual labor that is required if we continue working the hours we have been.
The catch is, it's great if you have 20 employees doing the work of 1000. It falls apart when no one else hires those 980 people. Being productive doesn't help if there is no market for your product.
That's the nub of the recession we are dealing with now. And a lot of it is from the fact that companies are working people 60 hours a week without over time using the "exempt" status. Start giving time and a half for anyone who isn't managing other people and unemployment drops by 2% over night.
For example: No more than 1% downtime per year sounds good-- but that allows them to have you down up to 3 days.
A friends million dollar printer went down. Other bigger customers with SLA's were also having problems at the same time. They got service after about 36 hours. Sure- they got some SLA fine money. Lost a lot more.
Could have ALSO happened if they had an inhouse repair person that got sick/died, etc. But SLA's are just a money deal at the bottom. Sometime it's worth it to the vendor to violate them.
You are right on the hear say. I miss when someone like consumer reports could do an unbiased report on these things.
I haven't had a CFL bulb fail yet. I assume that's bad power. But my bulbs do become dimmer over time until they do not fulfill any useful role. Any way we can measure lumens inexpensively?
50p? Is that about $1.50 U.S.?
If you prefer CCFLs no one is trying to take them away. There are a lot of benefits to them.
I prefer LED's now. I just wish they could kick the lumens up a teeny bit more.
I am slowly rotating in the LED's. LED and CFL's do reduce your cooling bill.
I just got some new CFL's that have ionozing spikes -- they clean the air on top of lighting.
I agree with you on the inconsistent approach. And my feeling is- if you are going to waste money elsewhere- let me 'waste" my money on good lighting in the few places I want it.
Odd. I can't see anything in the parent post which would qualify for a mod down.
Perhaps some CFL champion just wants to shut people up?
Not really true. Name brand, expensive, even modern "instant on" CFL's still produce dismal light for the first few seconds and then take up to a minute to achieve full brightness. I restrict them to locations where the lights will be on for many hours per day. I do not like using them in rooms I will go into, turn the light on for a few minutes and then leave.
LED's are much closer. I have a good GE bulb with fins with good color and light pattern BUT it's only 40 watts. I have a good Sylvania bulb with good light and light pattern but it is 60 watts lower and distinctly red. It works well in lamp fixtures with brown shades.
I no longer see flicker from CFL's. But they have a shorter duration than advertised. While technically still working their lumens diminish to the point they are visibly dimmer within 12 to 18 months of 5 hours a day usage. So far all my LED's are running at full intensity after between 4 and 1 years. Even my 230 lumen "60 watt" LED bulb which is relegated to the porch ($36 bucks 4 or 5 years ago) is still chugging along -- 24 hours a day burning 3 watts. I need to put a photo cell socket in it.
Not really true. Name brand, expensive, modern "instant on" CFL's still produce dismal light for the first few seconds and then take up to a minute to achieve full brightness. I restrict them to locations where the lights will be on for many hours per day. I do not like using them in rooms I will go into, turn the light on for a few minutes and then leave.
LED's are much closer. I have a good GE bulb with fins with good color and light pattern BUT it's only 40 watts. I have a good Sylvania bulb with good light and light pattern but it is 60 watts lower and distinctly red. It works well in lamp fixtures with brown shades.
I no longer see flicker from CFL's. But they do last much less than advertise. While technically still working their lumens diminish to the point they are visibly dimmer within 12 to 18 months of 5 hours a day usage. So far all my LED's are running at full intensity after between 4 and 1 years. Even my 230 lumen "60 watt" LED bulb which is relegated to the porch ($36 bucks 4 or 5 years ago) is still chugging along -- 24 hours a day burning 3 watts. I need to put a photo cell socket in it.
I have seen the damage a 4 light fixture can do to your electric bill.
I use a mixture of CFL's, LED's and three incandescent bulbs in my house. Until the light color and Lumens from LED's is there, their utility is limited.
GE makes a 40 watt bulb with fins which puts out the correct color of light. I have a couple of those.
Sylvania makes a 60 watt bulb (which is actually about 60 lumens low (800 vs 860)) but the light is distinctly red and can only be used in lamps with brown shades.
If GE steps up to 60 watts, or Sylvania gets a little bluer I'm there.
But I can afford $20 for a single bulp. Many can't. Even tho it saves you about $5 per year in electric costs it is going take a while to cover a $20 bulb that lasts about 7 years.
I dislike CFL-- even the "instant" ones still only power on at about 70% light and take 60-90 seconds to finish powering on. I can watch the light crawl through the coils in the 75 watt cfl in my utility room.
I think in 3-4 years, LED's will be down below $10, the right color, and use 20% of the power (and not drive up your cooling bill) and still last 7 years. No need to outlaw incandescents. The transition will happen on it's own.
I have a wad of id, 2 or 3 credit cards, Atm card plus bills (0-15) in my left pocket. The lose format makes it impossible to lay it down anywhere or for it to fall out of my pocket (since the bills have more friction than a wallet).
I keep less frequently used cards like insurance cards and restaurant discount cards in a tiny car drawer and take them out on arrival at that location.
I lost my first wallet with all my cards, cash, etc. about 34 years ago. I lost my second wallet with all my cards, id, cash, etc. about 32 years ago.
I stopped using a wallet and have never used one again. I haven't lost a card or id since. I think I have occasionally lost single bills but never all of them at once.
My friend, the language to know in my area is Spanish. And je parl un peu de francaise aussi.
As with so many others, there is no benefit as I'm already working 9-10 hours a day at a job with excellent pay and security likely to take me out to retirement.
I've worked with chinese and they tend to have less english than they think and an issue admitting when they don't understand or have gotten something wrong. This is not an insult- it's a caution. It holds them back from success.
I interpret it as growing up in a culture where failure is unacceptable or the classic "face" issues that shame or admitting being wrong is just unacceptable (perhaps fatal during the great purges so it might be a survival mechanism).
If you want to succeed, first thing keep taking lessons after you "know" the language and actively seek out your mistakes so you can actually fix them instead of repeating them.
My limited french and spanish are rarely used. The french to listen to "Le Press Canadien(sp)" and the spanish to communicate with illegal immigrants and recent legal immigrants occasionally. It never comes up in business. But I'm not an international businessman. Courses in project management and Dale Carnegie were much more effective for communication than learning chinese for my particular career.
Slashdot Mirror
I can't find any references to it in Google.
My memory has always been poor on details but I remember pointers and key words.
Having access to the internet has been a significant boon.
But my memory has been this way since before the internet.
A related issue we see is that since our people do not get wide exposure or training, there are classes of errors which are hard for them to fix.
We (finally) had an outside expert come in to audit our settings on our hardware and the changes resulted in a roughly 5% improvement in performance without causing any failures. 5% doesn't sounds like much but it's probably a few million in hardware so even $200 an hour for a week is justified. It's a one time thing- but at least have them drop by once a year IMHO.
I couldn't agree more.
What's stopping me? I'm fine. It's my friends who are not. And large concentrations of people in other states. I'm drawing a conclusion based on history.
Fortunately we don't have automated turrets yet. And if we did, they would have points of failure. The end result is a Somalian situation. The rich there don't live in the same kind of luxury and safety that the rich here do.
I think I'll be very old or if lucky- dead- before it all comes to pass. But I do speak and vote towards a better society with shorter working hours, reasonable tariffs on products made in countries which destroy the environment (we shouldn't be allowed to purchase from them to get around our pollution laws).
Oh.. but it has been repeated recently...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8571929.stm
This is from 2010.
With robotics and automation you could be looking at extended 20% unemployment with no benefits.
Hungry people tend to get violent and take desperate actions. You can't imprison 10% of your population. What's coming up in the next 10 - 20 years is a change on par with the industrial revolution-- only there are not enough jobs for humans on the other side of that change.
There will be more smart, more educated, more dumb manual labor that is required if we continue working the hours we have been.
The catch is, it's great if you have 20 employees doing the work of 1000. It falls apart when no one else hires those 980 people. Being productive doesn't help if there is no market for your product.
That's the nub of the recession we are dealing with now. And a lot of it is from the fact that companies are working people 60 hours a week without over time using the "exempt" status. Start giving time and a half for anyone who isn't managing other people and unemployment drops by 2% over night.
At my company they have solved this problem by no longer training people. In just about anything.
We went LIVE on SA FRIKKIN P with NO training. How can we demand 5 years experience of new people?
We will get a small training course sometime later this fall.
You need to be really careful about SLA's.
There are horror stories about SLA's.
For example: No more than 1% downtime per year sounds good-- but that allows them to have you down up to 3 days.
A friends million dollar printer went down. Other bigger customers with SLA's were also having problems at the same time. They got service after about 36 hours. Sure- they got some SLA fine money. Lost a lot more.
Could have ALSO happened if they had an inhouse repair person that got sick/died, etc. But SLA's are just a money deal at the bottom. Sometime it's worth it to the vendor to violate them.
You are right on the hear say. I miss when someone like consumer reports could do an unbiased report on these things.
I haven't had a CFL bulb fail yet. I assume that's bad power. But my bulbs do become dimmer over time until they do not fulfill any useful role. Any way we can measure lumens inexpensively?
50p? Is that about $1.50 U.S.?
If you prefer CCFLs no one is trying to take them away. There are a lot of benefits to them.
I prefer LED's now. I just wish they could kick the lumens up a teeny bit more.
Your business is dead in the water.
If that only happens 2 days a year, you just factor that as a cost unless there is some critical reason you must remain up (hospital).
Also, it becomes difficult to differentiate your business from others.
As jobs get completely slaughtered something has to give. Shorter work weeks or civil unrest.
It's pretty easy to get good lighting out of CFL's. :-/
You just need to replace each incandescent bulb with 2 or 3 CFL's.
I wonder if it is partially an age thing. As you get older, you need more light (the light gathering capacity of your eyes actually drops physically).
So bright or good lighting for a younger person seems dismal or dim and insufficient to an older person.
I need about 2000 lumens these days in a 16'x10' room otherwise I feel like I'm sitting in a cave.
I am slowly rotating in the LED's. LED and CFL's do reduce your cooling bill.
I just got some new CFL's that have ionozing spikes -- they clean the air on top of lighting.
I agree with you on the inconsistent approach. And my feeling is- if you are going to waste money elsewhere- let me 'waste" my money on good lighting in the few places I want it.
Odd. I can't see anything in the parent post which would qualify for a mod down.
Perhaps some CFL champion just wants to shut people up?
Not really true.
Name brand, expensive, even modern "instant on" CFL's still produce dismal light for the first few seconds and then take up to a minute to achieve full brightness. I restrict them to locations where the lights will be on for many hours per day. I do not like using them in rooms I will go into, turn the light on for a few minutes and then leave.
LED's are much closer. I have a good GE bulb with fins with good color and light pattern BUT it's only 40 watts. I have a good Sylvania bulb with good light and light pattern but it is 60 watts lower and distinctly red. It works well in lamp fixtures with brown shades.
I no longer see flicker from CFL's. But they have a shorter duration than advertised. While technically still working their lumens diminish to the point they are visibly dimmer within 12 to 18 months of 5 hours a day usage. So far all my LED's are running at full intensity after between 4 and 1 years. Even my 230 lumen "60 watt" LED bulb which is relegated to the porch ($36 bucks 4 or 5 years ago) is still chugging along -- 24 hours a day burning 3 watts. I need to put a photo cell socket in it.
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Navigation?storeId=10051&N=542325+90401&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&cm_sp=Electrical-_-LightBulbs-_-CatHighlights-_-Incandescents
Philips
60-Watt Household Incandescent Light Bulb (4-Pack) (E)*
Model 374843
$1.27 (via internet- more expensive in stores).
So 30 cents per incandescent. (maybe 40 cents in stores).
Have you tried LED's?
Not really true.
Name brand, expensive, modern "instant on" CFL's still produce dismal light for the first few seconds and then take up to a minute to achieve full brightness. I restrict them to locations where the lights will be on for many hours per day. I do not like using them in rooms I will go into, turn the light on for a few minutes and then leave.
LED's are much closer. I have a good GE bulb with fins with good color and light pattern BUT it's only 40 watts. I have a good Sylvania bulb with good light and light pattern but it is 60 watts lower and distinctly red. It works well in lamp fixtures with brown shades.
I no longer see flicker from CFL's. But they do last much less than advertise. While technically still working their lumens diminish to the point they are visibly dimmer within 12 to 18 months of 5 hours a day usage. So far all my LED's are running at full intensity after between 4 and 1 years. Even my 230 lumen "60 watt" LED bulb which is relegated to the porch ($36 bucks 4 or 5 years ago) is still chugging along -- 24 hours a day burning 3 watts. I need to put a photo cell socket in it.
Shouldn't it be a freedom issue?
I have seen the damage a 4 light fixture can do to your electric bill.
I use a mixture of CFL's, LED's and three incandescent bulbs in my house.
Until the light color and Lumens from LED's is there, their utility is limited.
GE makes a 40 watt bulb with fins which puts out the correct color of light. I have a couple of those.
Sylvania makes a 60 watt bulb (which is actually about 60 lumens low (800 vs 860)) but the light is distinctly red and can only be used in lamps with brown shades.
If GE steps up to 60 watts, or Sylvania gets a little bluer I'm there.
But I can afford $20 for a single bulp. Many can't. Even tho it saves you about $5 per year in electric costs it is going take a while to cover a $20 bulb that lasts about 7 years.
I dislike CFL-- even the "instant" ones still only power on at about 70% light and take 60-90 seconds to finish powering on. I can watch the light crawl through the coils in the 75 watt cfl in my utility room.
I think in 3-4 years, LED's will be down below $10, the right color, and use 20% of the power (and not drive up your cooling bill) and still last 7 years. No need to outlaw incandescents. The transition will happen on it's own.
I cared enough to read... as did you and many others.
And if I'd had mod points left, I'd mod your post funny.
I have a wad of id, 2 or 3 credit cards, Atm card plus bills (0-15) in my left pocket. The lose format makes it impossible to lay it down anywhere or for it to fall out of my pocket (since the bills have more friction than a wallet).
I keep less frequently used cards like insurance cards and restaurant discount cards in a tiny car drawer and take them out on arrival at that location.
Apparently there are not enough Craig Ferguson fans on slashdot.
I lost my first wallet with all my cards, cash, etc. about 34 years ago.
I lost my second wallet with all my cards, id, cash, etc. about 32 years ago.
I stopped using a wallet and have never used one again.
I haven't lost a card or id since. I think I have occasionally lost single bills but never all of them at once.
And I haven't done a single situp in the last 20 years.
And no... this is not a joke post. :-)
I figure I've got another 8-10 good years left then the hip or back probably goes to arthritis.
My friend, the language to know in my area is Spanish.
And je parl un peu de francaise aussi.
As with so many others, there is no benefit as I'm already working 9-10 hours a day at a job with excellent pay and security likely to take me out to retirement.
I've worked with chinese and they tend to have less english than they think and an issue admitting when they don't understand or have gotten something wrong. This is not an insult- it's a caution. It holds them back from success.
I interpret it as growing up in a culture where failure is unacceptable or the classic "face" issues that shame or admitting being wrong is just unacceptable (perhaps fatal during the great purges so it might be a survival mechanism).
If you want to succeed, first thing keep taking lessons after you "know" the language and actively seek out your mistakes so you can actually fix them instead of repeating them.
My limited french and spanish are rarely used. The french to listen to "Le Press Canadien(sp)" and the spanish to communicate with illegal immigrants and recent legal immigrants occasionally. It never comes up in business. But I'm not an international businessman. Courses in project management and Dale Carnegie were much more effective for communication than learning chinese for my particular career.
but I already was supposed to learn japanese because they were going to own everything only 15 years ago.
damnit!