Make modern browsers work with sites that are not perfect. I am required to use IE not because of some antiquated piece of Java, but because the security settings on modern browsers don't let you connect to sites with self signed certificates. So I cannot connect to my home router, my work routers, my hosting provider, etc. because they use certificates that for some reason or another are not "recognized". IE lets me say "hey this is okay and add an exception". Edge, Chrome, Firefox don't, they deny you access.
And before I get flamed for "well use a better certificate", that is not the point. I don't need a production ready, industrial certificate to run HTTPS on my home router. My server doesn't need something production ready certificate and have a cost just so I hit a URL for some shitty website front end on an app to go over HTTPS. Fix that, and I am with you.
I am in IT Security and I know the risks. I also view all CVE released daily. I know what I am doing. But there is only so much time in the day to manage your own software. If you had a company managing all things installed on your desktops (or laptops) and took away the rights of users to install their own software, then hell yeah I blame them when they have the tools to manage it. But for my home machines? I know Putty, VLC, and libreoffice are out of date. Those are the only three applications I have installed on my laptop outside of the OS and Firefox. Why? I use them infrequently and I don't spend the time to check them every time I login to the machine. I just want it to work.
The final thing actually is windows 10 has made it worse for me. I used to keep my machines running 24x7. Now due to how the updates are deployed, and being unable to kill the reboots, etc. I shut them off so they don't reboot on me at random times. I never know when an update is coming (yes I know about patch Tuesday, but MS releases so many damn out of cycle patches, it is not the only time you get patches). So my machines are not running, thus no software to worry about, limiting risk.
Finally - there is no single update mechanism like many Linux distros. Each one has some crappy software, always running and taking resources, just to update. Why does an update daemon (process) take 56Mb of memory? I used to run an entire OS and its app on that much memory. That is now the updater process for java which always runs? Have a dozen of those crappy things running and your machine crawls.
Per Executive Order 13658, minimum wage is set at $10.35. While that is not for every company, it is for anyone who does business with the US government.
Well then they will find another way. People are no longer full time employees (max 32 hours a week). Take away all corporate related benefits (no more healthcare, etc.) There are 100 ways they can get around this.
The issue is also what is a "livable" wage? I hate that term as you hear it thrown around a ton with politicians and it is anywhere from 110% poverty to something like $50k a year. I know parts of this bill are tying it to those receiving government benefits, but sometimes people are getting those benefits for other reasons than they "don't make enough".
I think it is a terrible way to punish a company as it is not a metric which is able to be measured (without additional big brother and possible retribution) by companies for self reporting. Easier way is to raise the minimum wage. I know it has issues (wait staff only getting a little, prices go up, etc.) but that is the true answer.
This is for people in the warehouses, doing all the logistics and shipping work essentially. They make a little more than minimum wage. Yes you are correct that those that work in the corporate HQ make a ton of money, it is the line workers Bernie's bill is looking out for.
Came here to say the same thing. I have used tt-rss for about a decade and cannot read the web without it. Run it at home and all I have to do is know my home IP and boom, I am good. If the site doesn't have RSS, (or some weird combo of so many RSS feeds it is useless), I don't use them.
What I would like to see is the other side of this equation, people who are going to pay the higher taxes and get the UBI. So the person who makes $100k and gets the UBI but has to pay 40% income tax flat. See how that works out. The money has to come from somewhere and the assumption is people will continue to work if they have to pay this high tax rate. I don't know if that would be the case.
While my point was more for hyperbole than factual, I think you either are being obtuse or silly. I know how to estimate, I said to know what the actual answer was. Growing up in Wisconsin, 5% tax rate, I was in third grade and I knew how many weeks I would have to save up for a GI Joe I wanted to buy $3.99 plus $0.20 cents tax, that is five weeks to cover it at a dollar a week. Being a professional with 4 semesters of college calculus behind me, and living in Kirkland, WA, with 9.14% tax, I didn't know without electronic aids that it was $0.273 for tax on my $2.99 Big Mac. If you could do that math in your head - then be grateful you have a wonderful mathematical mind.
It has nothing to do with knowing how payment processing works, it has to do with knowing what your payment is. People unconsciously budget their money and want to know how much stuff costs. When you throw variable rates into the mix, it is hard for some people to do the math. There are two, big issues here which have nothing to do with entitlement or what ever your indignation is.
* Patreon switched the model 180 degrees without much notice. They are now making the Patreons pay more where as before it was the person receiving the money. Patreons have every right to be pissed, as now they are spending more.
* Patreon has not confirmed if they are going to do everything as 1 transaction or not. This is the big thing. If all my stuff goes through as 1 transaction, then the fees are minimal. If I support 10 artists @ $1 a piece, and they all get charged on the same day (first of the month typically) then they should be one $10 transaction with one transaction fee.
This seems like Patreon is read to IPO. A few months ago they went after game developers (who use the system and provide monthly updates to patreons) and started objecting to sexual content in the games. Now they are changing the system to start charging more to the patreons, instead of charging more to the people who benefit from the donations. There was a time (I am showing my age) where Paypal did the same thing before it IPOed, by changing the payment method just before it became public so that they could have predictable revenue methods to describe to investors.
I don't know if it is for the best or now, I just know that people don't like being screwed out of money. In the US, we are conditioned to not know what prices are as everything we buy is the price of an item but tax is figured by the computer at the register. Yes sometimes in some states it is simple math but when you live in a province with tax rates like 9.417% you have no freaking clue what you are going to pay until the cashier tells you. That is exactly what people are pissed off about with this new policy change at Patreon. They knew it was a dollar (or ten) that was spent, now it is some formula that they have to figure out and it is not easy to figure out what is going on. Patreon is not mentioning if you get charged fees multiple times, single transactions, etc.
I can argue against the estate tax all day. While all income should be taxed (in our current system, I wish we would get away from income taxing and go more to a use tax) no matter where it comes from, estates are not income. They are a passing of property to the next generation. I don't know what you are thinking about inheritances having their basis reset when bequeathed to the next generation, but when they are renamed/re-titled, tax law kicks in and all taxes are owed on the previous estate. The only way to skip this is insurance, trusts. Any retirement account you have to pay taxes on the original basis (from your parents), if that applied (ie. Roth IRAs don't care about basis as they were already taxed prior to entry into the retirement vehicle). I just know when my parents pass, I am looking at about 33% being eaten up in taxes, and the remaining 66% available for distribution. This an my parents are awesome at estate planning, utilizing trusts and insurance.
I would like to see this study re-done with commercials. So they picked a British TV show, presumably with the British style TV (no commercials until the end of the show). Give me an American style show, with 33% or more commercials in an hour and I bet you will get totally different results. This is why streaming and binging are huge in the US, as people can absorb the content, with out the BS Marketing.
First off the article linked was poorly written. It is only their professional services arm that has these new restrictions. R&D does not. Secondly who cares? I prefer business casual over some of the other forms of outfits that you can wear. Yes I can wear sneakers (trainers) and they might be very comfortable, but I buy an $80 pair of shoes, wear them every day, and they last 5 years. That is not all that expensive. Khaki's are lighter than Denim Jeans.. so I prefer them. Hey, less ball sweat. $40 a pair (you need five). I have light button down shirts that I wear over my under shirt and have never had a problem of being hot, or feeling constrained. Again, spend $40 on each shirt and you will only have to replace them if you get fat (or skinny) or after like 5 years. So lets see. $500 for 5 years worth of NICE clothes you can wear anywhere (church, wedding, christmas dinner, etc.) and you are more comfortable than when you wear jeans and a polo.
Of course this is all subjective. My current job allows people to wear jeans instead of Khaki's. I told my boss that I will never wear jeans, but if he lets me wear shorts that will be a different story. I would prefer to wear shorts and a t-shirt, but it is work. Seriously. If you are customer facing, it is not hard to look nice and professional. If you are a back room guy - Who cares.
1) Costs. A car costs about $35k - $40k new. IF you qualify for the rebate, you get that back (it is not automatic, you have to have certain tax levels). So they are not cheap.
2) Most people only have one car per adult (over 18). This is so they can go to work, etc. Most people need this car so they can do all tasks needed (the jack of all trades sort of thing) which includes road trips to grandma's 2 states over. If you are married it becomes much easier to have a pet car that has limited...
3) Range. Cars need to get you from point A to B, and range is key. If you don't work some place where you can recharge, you cannot top the tank at work. They you are stuck with the range you have. If you live in a place with cold weather winters, your range decreases by as much as 15%. Your 100 mile range now is 85 (not including the heater having to be run) just from the physics of the battery.
4) People have different needs on different days. I work as a consultant, and a college professor. When I consult, I drive 20 miles a day to work or so. When I teach, I drive 40 miles one way to teach. I cannot consult and teach on the same day with most modern electric cars (outside the volt or tesla). I would have to drive to work, drive home, pick up my other car, and drive to teach. Not going to happen.
5) They are picking shitty bodies/designs. I don't drive a chevy cruze, or a sedan at all. I drive a crossover due to its ride height and utility and size (I am a big dude). I don't fit in tiny sedan cars. If they put the guts of volt in a crossover, it would be a hit. GM sells more trucks and SUV/crossovers than they do cars. Same with Ford. Same with Chrysler. It is not what the masses want. I would love to own a volt. I have been following it since 2007 when it was first announced. However when I first sat in it after waiting 4 years, I don't fit. Too small of a driver cockpit.
6) People are uneducated about what a car can do. Many people just don't know how to deal with the simple way that things work as they don't become educated about the cars they purchase. You cannot believe the comments I have seen on several EV boards about cars.
7) People are stuck in their ways. Gas is good and electric is bad. I have an electric but have to rent a car to drive to grandma's two states over for christmas. Okay. But it is not my vehicle... wahhhh... wahhhh. They are stuck in their ways and don't want to change.
8) Cars are not available everywhere. I don't live in California. I live in Indiana. I don't get a Kia Soul EV. I don't get a Toyota Rav4 EV. These are only sold in California for CARB compliance reasons. The manufacturers don't want to have to deal with them so they allow those cars to be sold out of that state.
I have been following these two cars for years since they have been announced. I have seen nothing on the features offered on either car, outside of the price and range promises. The pictures of the bolt look nice (maybe) but until I can sit in one, I will withhold my judgement. They have not released any info on the model 3 so I can judge nothing.
My bets are: If we are talking tesla, it will be $30k but if you want any feature that makes a tesla a tesla, you will have to spend another $15k to make it right. If you are talking chevy, it will be pretty good, but another $2k for leather and heated seats and a sat nav. That is the difference between companies. Tesla is not going to give you self driving, or the IPAD style interior unless you pay for it. Chevy will give you most of it.
In Windows, you need enough resources. If you only have 4GB RAM (and it is a laptop, sharing video memory), you can only open a few apps before you run out of memory. Windows allows any program to request how much memory they want. When they request more memory, and there is physically no more, you go to swap. Again, instead of stopping apps from asking more, they give it more and more. For example, my firefox right now is running at 19GB of memory. It just keeps asking for more memory (of course I have 1000+ tabs opened). So it just keeps moving memory to swap. Swap is SLOW as it is on disk.
Second, as you mentioned this is a work laptop, they have a HIDS/IPS/firewall software installed. Every time you access a file that is checked for viruses/etc. before it is opened. (Not to mention all the stuff is loaded into memory, giving you less space for apps). Also there are full anti virus scans on laptops that run weekly? Daily? depends on your company. This takes up I/O which slows things down, especially when you are swapping memory.
Hints to fix. Get enough RAM. I think 16GB is enough, 8 is a min now days. Make sure your HIDS/IPS/Firewall is not scanning your page file (very common mistake). Ask IT to move your virus scans to lunch time (ie. Noon, instead of 10am). There are other suggestions but they get into the pros/cons of security and expose your company to more risk.
Phenom II 6 core (2.4 GHz) 16GB RAM (DDR3, 1333MHz if I remember correctly) 2x 128 SSD disks (Raid 1) 1x 2TB disk for TV Recording 1x 16x Blu-Ray drive 1x 48x DVD drive 1 Radeon 74xx video card (2 GB DDR5 ram, 720 threads) 2x 24in 16:9 monitors IBM Model M keyboard Microsoft version 1.0 laser mouse (from 2000) Windows 7 Ultimate
I have a low powered (6 watt CPU) linux box running on the network as my file storage through Samba, mail server, web server. This is more than enough power for me and does what I need it to do.
Every time this is brought up, the point is missed. A few decades ago, people would go to college to be educated. You left with a broader understanding of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Now you are expected to graduate college, fully trained, to hit the ground running in your career. Colleges have had to follow suit so that industry would hire their graduates.. to make their numbers look good.. to market the university.. to get more students. So industry is shifting their responsibility of "training" new employees to universities.
I have a buddy who graduated with a BA in Philosophy. He is a director of application development. Why is this? He is a smart dude, and his passion is coding. He learned about life in college, got a degree, and learned to code on the side. Some company trained him and he became good and went on to bigger and better things. This is what is missing. Companies are not taking fliers on people like this anymore. They won't look at someone unless they have XYZ degree from a top 10 school, with a 3.5 GPA, etc. They want their students to come out 100% trained, to hit the ground running.
The other side is people are not willing to take a low level job to be trained. They come out of school, and expect to get this $80k a year doing their dream job, with no skills, just given to them. People have to work, pay their dues, and show they are a good employee before they can demand their dream jobs. Work in the mailroom, work in another department, etc. You graduated with an MIS degree, and cannot find a job because you have a 2.5 GPA, then work in accounting or marketing before you transfer to IT. Prove you can work a job before you expect one to be given to you.
In theory it is a couple of mouse clicks. The issue becomes how do you know? Without deep packet inspection you will never know what exactly your browser is sending to websites. The issue is not how trivial it is to turn it off, it is that now Mozilla as an organization is now in the ad business, taking my privacy is no longer a concern. The sheer fact that they are considering it means that my privacy has moved down the list of priorities for the foundation than functionality or user experience.
There is a reason I don't use Chrome. I can tell you for a fact that even with every privacy based extension turned on for all sites, Chrome can still phone home to google and give it anything the coders want. I don't like that and refuse to use Chrome for that reason. Now that Firefox is going down that path by their actions, the trust is being broken. Once trust is gone, everything fades.
Part of SCCM is the DSC for Windows servers. What this allows is to validate (ie. scan) for changes to the default build for servers, desktops, and provides integrated reporting. While there are many tools to do this, it is free from MS (minus the OS and SQL DB). If adding Linux to this is a possibility, having your compliance and reporting in one tool, which can leave you from having to run tripwire enterprise or the like due to compliance requirements, might be a win.
I am not saying it is the best thing on the planet, but if it does what the theory states, that would be a huge deal to have 1 less tool to manage to provide compliance reports.
I don't understand your comment and there is zero way to store AC power (your excess from yours example). It just goes out on the grid and someone else uses it and the generator at the power plant produces less.
If you are talking about "hey I am producing more than I am using" and 4 hours later have to use more than you make, then that is the part that net metering takes into consideration. Where I live, it is $0.10 a kWh to consume, and $0.01 kWh to produce (ie. your excess from solar). They pay you for your generation and charge you for your usage.
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Make modern browsers work with sites that are not perfect. I am required to use IE not because of some antiquated piece of Java, but because the security settings on modern browsers don't let you connect to sites with self signed certificates. So I cannot connect to my home router, my work routers, my hosting provider, etc. because they use certificates that for some reason or another are not "recognized". IE lets me say "hey this is okay and add an exception". Edge, Chrome, Firefox don't, they deny you access.
And before I get flamed for "well use a better certificate", that is not the point. I don't need a production ready, industrial certificate to run HTTPS on my home router. My server doesn't need something production ready certificate and have a cost just so I hit a URL for some shitty website front end on an app to go over HTTPS. Fix that, and I am with you.
I am in IT Security and I know the risks. I also view all CVE released daily. I know what I am doing. But there is only so much time in the day to manage your own software. If you had a company managing all things installed on your desktops (or laptops) and took away the rights of users to install their own software, then hell yeah I blame them when they have the tools to manage it. But for my home machines? I know Putty, VLC, and libreoffice are out of date. Those are the only three applications I have installed on my laptop outside of the OS and Firefox. Why? I use them infrequently and I don't spend the time to check them every time I login to the machine. I just want it to work.
The final thing actually is windows 10 has made it worse for me. I used to keep my machines running 24x7. Now due to how the updates are deployed, and being unable to kill the reboots, etc. I shut them off so they don't reboot on me at random times. I never know when an update is coming (yes I know about patch Tuesday, but MS releases so many damn out of cycle patches, it is not the only time you get patches). So my machines are not running, thus no software to worry about, limiting risk.
Finally - there is no single update mechanism like many Linux distros. Each one has some crappy software, always running and taking resources, just to update. Why does an update daemon (process) take 56Mb of memory? I used to run an entire OS and its app on that much memory. That is now the updater process for java which always runs? Have a dozen of those crappy things running and your machine crawls.
Per Executive Order 13658, minimum wage is set at $10.35. While that is not for every company, it is for anyone who does business with the US government.
Tie the wage increases and minimum wage based on CPI per zip code. This is information the government has had for over 70 years (and tracks monthly).
Well then they will find another way. People are no longer full time employees (max 32 hours a week). Take away all corporate related benefits (no more healthcare, etc.) There are 100 ways they can get around this.
The issue is also what is a "livable" wage? I hate that term as you hear it thrown around a ton with politicians and it is anywhere from 110% poverty to something like $50k a year. I know parts of this bill are tying it to those receiving government benefits, but sometimes people are getting those benefits for other reasons than they "don't make enough".
I think it is a terrible way to punish a company as it is not a metric which is able to be measured (without additional big brother and possible retribution) by companies for self reporting. Easier way is to raise the minimum wage. I know it has issues (wait staff only getting a little, prices go up, etc.) but that is the true answer.
This is for people in the warehouses, doing all the logistics and shipping work essentially. They make a little more than minimum wage. Yes you are correct that those that work in the corporate HQ make a ton of money, it is the line workers Bernie's bill is looking out for.
Came here to say the same thing. I have used tt-rss for about a decade and cannot read the web without it. Run it at home and all I have to do is know my home IP and boom, I am good. If the site doesn't have RSS, (or some weird combo of so many RSS feeds it is useless), I don't use them.
What I would like to see is the other side of this equation, people who are going to pay the higher taxes and get the UBI. So the person who makes $100k and gets the UBI but has to pay 40% income tax flat. See how that works out. The money has to come from somewhere and the assumption is people will continue to work if they have to pay this high tax rate. I don't know if that would be the case.
Stand up in court, show the monthly bill. If it says CenturyLink on it, then it is CenturyLink. Pretty simple way to disprove this arguement.
While my point was more for hyperbole than factual, I think you either are being obtuse or silly. I know how to estimate, I said to know what the actual answer was. Growing up in Wisconsin, 5% tax rate, I was in third grade and I knew how many weeks I would have to save up for a GI Joe I wanted to buy $3.99 plus $0.20 cents tax, that is five weeks to cover it at a dollar a week. Being a professional with 4 semesters of college calculus behind me, and living in Kirkland, WA, with 9.14% tax, I didn't know without electronic aids that it was $0.273 for tax on my $2.99 Big Mac. If you could do that math in your head - then be grateful you have a wonderful mathematical mind.
It has nothing to do with knowing how payment processing works, it has to do with knowing what your payment is. People unconsciously budget their money and want to know how much stuff costs. When you throw variable rates into the mix, it is hard for some people to do the math. There are two, big issues here which have nothing to do with entitlement or what ever your indignation is.
* Patreon switched the model 180 degrees without much notice. They are now making the Patreons pay more where as before it was the person receiving the money. Patreons have every right to be pissed, as now they are spending more.
* Patreon has not confirmed if they are going to do everything as 1 transaction or not. This is the big thing. If all my stuff goes through as 1 transaction, then the fees are minimal. If I support 10 artists @ $1 a piece, and they all get charged on the same day (first of the month typically) then they should be one $10 transaction with one transaction fee.
Seems like it is ready to IPO (I couldn't edit it and realized it after I posted).
This seems like Patreon is read to IPO. A few months ago they went after game developers (who use the system and provide monthly updates to patreons) and started objecting to sexual content in the games. Now they are changing the system to start charging more to the patreons, instead of charging more to the people who benefit from the donations. There was a time (I am showing my age) where Paypal did the same thing before it IPOed, by changing the payment method just before it became public so that they could have predictable revenue methods to describe to investors.
I don't know if it is for the best or now, I just know that people don't like being screwed out of money. In the US, we are conditioned to not know what prices are as everything we buy is the price of an item but tax is figured by the computer at the register. Yes sometimes in some states it is simple math but when you live in a province with tax rates like 9.417% you have no freaking clue what you are going to pay until the cashier tells you. That is exactly what people are pissed off about with this new policy change at Patreon. They knew it was a dollar (or ten) that was spent, now it is some formula that they have to figure out and it is not easy to figure out what is going on. Patreon is not mentioning if you get charged fees multiple times, single transactions, etc.
I can argue against the estate tax all day. While all income should be taxed (in our current system, I wish we would get away from income taxing and go more to a use tax) no matter where it comes from, estates are not income. They are a passing of property to the next generation. I don't know what you are thinking about inheritances having their basis reset when bequeathed to the next generation, but when they are renamed/re-titled, tax law kicks in and all taxes are owed on the previous estate. The only way to skip this is insurance, trusts. Any retirement account you have to pay taxes on the original basis (from your parents), if that applied (ie. Roth IRAs don't care about basis as they were already taxed prior to entry into the retirement vehicle). I just know when my parents pass, I am looking at about 33% being eaten up in taxes, and the remaining 66% available for distribution. This an my parents are awesome at estate planning, utilizing trusts and insurance.
I would like to see this study re-done with commercials. So they picked a British TV show, presumably with the British style TV (no commercials until the end of the show). Give me an American style show, with 33% or more commercials in an hour and I bet you will get totally different results. This is why streaming and binging are huge in the US, as people can absorb the content, with out the BS Marketing.
I used others many other ones my parents had. I purchased a Packard Bell 386 16Mhz, 1MB RAM, 16 MB HDD for $850 from Montgomery Ward. God I'm old.
First off the article linked was poorly written. It is only their professional services arm that has these new restrictions. R&D does not. Secondly who cares? I prefer business casual over some of the other forms of outfits that you can wear. Yes I can wear sneakers (trainers) and they might be very comfortable, but I buy an $80 pair of shoes, wear them every day, and they last 5 years. That is not all that expensive. Khaki's are lighter than Denim Jeans .. so I prefer them. Hey, less ball sweat. $40 a pair (you need five). I have light button down shirts that I wear over my under shirt and have never had a problem of being hot, or feeling constrained. Again, spend $40 on each shirt and you will only have to replace them if you get fat (or skinny) or after like 5 years. So lets see. $500 for 5 years worth of NICE clothes you can wear anywhere (church, wedding, christmas dinner, etc.) and you are more comfortable than when you wear jeans and a polo.
Of course this is all subjective. My current job allows people to wear jeans instead of Khaki's. I told my boss that I will never wear jeans, but if he lets me wear shorts that will be a different story. I would prefer to wear shorts and a t-shirt, but it is work. Seriously. If you are customer facing, it is not hard to look nice and professional. If you are a back room guy - Who cares.
1) Costs. A car costs about $35k - $40k new. IF you qualify for the rebate, you get that back (it is not automatic, you have to have certain tax levels). So they are not cheap.
2) Most people only have one car per adult (over 18). This is so they can go to work, etc. Most people need this car so they can do all tasks needed (the jack of all trades sort of thing) which includes road trips to grandma's 2 states over. If you are married it becomes much easier to have a pet car that has limited ...
3) Range. Cars need to get you from point A to B, and range is key. If you don't work some place where you can recharge, you cannot top the tank at work. They you are stuck with the range you have. If you live in a place with cold weather winters, your range decreases by as much as 15%. Your 100 mile range now is 85 (not including the heater having to be run) just from the physics of the battery.
4) People have different needs on different days. I work as a consultant, and a college professor. When I consult, I drive 20 miles a day to work or so. When I teach, I drive 40 miles one way to teach. I cannot consult and teach on the same day with most modern electric cars (outside the volt or tesla). I would have to drive to work, drive home, pick up my other car, and drive to teach. Not going to happen.
5) They are picking shitty bodies/designs. I don't drive a chevy cruze, or a sedan at all. I drive a crossover due to its ride height and utility and size (I am a big dude). I don't fit in tiny sedan cars. If they put the guts of volt in a crossover, it would be a hit. GM sells more trucks and SUV/crossovers than they do cars. Same with Ford. Same with Chrysler. It is not what the masses want. I would love to own a volt. I have been following it since 2007 when it was first announced. However when I first sat in it after waiting 4 years, I don't fit. Too small of a driver cockpit.
6) People are uneducated about what a car can do. Many people just don't know how to deal with the simple way that things work as they don't become educated about the cars they purchase. You cannot believe the comments I have seen on several EV boards about cars.
7) People are stuck in their ways. Gas is good and electric is bad. I have an electric but have to rent a car to drive to grandma's two states over for christmas. Okay. But it is not my vehicle ... wahhhh ... wahhhh. They are stuck in their ways and don't want to change.
8) Cars are not available everywhere. I don't live in California. I live in Indiana. I don't get a Kia Soul EV. I don't get a Toyota Rav4 EV. These are only sold in California for CARB compliance reasons. The manufacturers don't want to have to deal with them so they allow those cars to be sold out of that state.
I have been following these two cars for years since they have been announced. I have seen nothing on the features offered on either car, outside of the price and range promises. The pictures of the bolt look nice (maybe) but until I can sit in one, I will withhold my judgement. They have not released any info on the model 3 so I can judge nothing.
My bets are: If we are talking tesla, it will be $30k but if you want any feature that makes a tesla a tesla, you will have to spend another $15k to make it right. If you are talking chevy, it will be pretty good, but another $2k for leather and heated seats and a sat nav. That is the difference between companies. Tesla is not going to give you self driving, or the IPAD style interior unless you pay for it. Chevy will give you most of it.
In Windows, you need enough resources. If you only have 4GB RAM (and it is a laptop, sharing video memory), you can only open a few apps before you run out of memory. Windows allows any program to request how much memory they want. When they request more memory, and there is physically no more, you go to swap. Again, instead of stopping apps from asking more, they give it more and more. For example, my firefox right now is running at 19GB of memory. It just keeps asking for more memory (of course I have 1000+ tabs opened). So it just keeps moving memory to swap. Swap is SLOW as it is on disk.
Second, as you mentioned this is a work laptop, they have a HIDS/IPS/firewall software installed. Every time you access a file that is checked for viruses/etc. before it is opened. (Not to mention all the stuff is loaded into memory, giving you less space for apps). Also there are full anti virus scans on laptops that run weekly? Daily? depends on your company. This takes up I/O which slows things down, especially when you are swapping memory.
Hints to fix. Get enough RAM. I think 16GB is enough, 8 is a min now days. Make sure your HIDS/IPS/Firewall is not scanning your page file (very common mistake). Ask IT to move your virus scans to lunch time (ie. Noon, instead of 10am). There are other suggestions but they get into the pros/cons of security and expose your company to more risk.
My main PC is as follows:
Phenom II 6 core (2.4 GHz)
16GB RAM (DDR3, 1333MHz if I remember correctly)
2x 128 SSD disks (Raid 1)
1x 2TB disk for TV Recording
1x 16x Blu-Ray drive
1x 48x DVD drive
1 Radeon 74xx video card (2 GB DDR5 ram, 720 threads)
2x 24in 16:9 monitors
IBM Model M keyboard
Microsoft version 1.0 laser mouse (from 2000)
Windows 7 Ultimate
I have a low powered (6 watt CPU) linux box running on the network as my file storage through Samba, mail server, web server. This is more than enough power for me and does what I need it to do.
Every time this is brought up, the point is missed. A few decades ago, people would go to college to be educated. You left with a broader understanding of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Now you are expected to graduate college, fully trained, to hit the ground running in your career. Colleges have had to follow suit so that industry would hire their graduates .. to make their numbers look good .. to market the university .. to get more students. So industry is shifting their responsibility of "training" new employees to universities.
I have a buddy who graduated with a BA in Philosophy. He is a director of application development. Why is this? He is a smart dude, and his passion is coding. He learned about life in college, got a degree, and learned to code on the side. Some company trained him and he became good and went on to bigger and better things. This is what is missing. Companies are not taking fliers on people like this anymore. They won't look at someone unless they have XYZ degree from a top 10 school, with a 3.5 GPA, etc. They want their students to come out 100% trained, to hit the ground running.
The other side is people are not willing to take a low level job to be trained. They come out of school, and expect to get this $80k a year doing their dream job, with no skills, just given to them. People have to work, pay their dues, and show they are a good employee before they can demand their dream jobs. Work in the mailroom, work in another department, etc. You graduated with an MIS degree, and cannot find a job because you have a 2.5 GPA, then work in accounting or marketing before you transfer to IT. Prove you can work a job before you expect one to be given to you.
In theory it is a couple of mouse clicks. The issue becomes how do you know? Without deep packet inspection you will never know what exactly your browser is sending to websites. The issue is not how trivial it is to turn it off, it is that now Mozilla as an organization is now in the ad business, taking my privacy is no longer a concern. The sheer fact that they are considering it means that my privacy has moved down the list of priorities for the foundation than functionality or user experience.
There is a reason I don't use Chrome. I can tell you for a fact that even with every privacy based extension turned on for all sites, Chrome can still phone home to google and give it anything the coders want. I don't like that and refuse to use Chrome for that reason. Now that Firefox is going down that path by their actions, the trust is being broken. Once trust is gone, everything fades.
Part of SCCM is the DSC for Windows servers. What this allows is to validate (ie. scan) for changes to the default build for servers, desktops, and provides integrated reporting. While there are many tools to do this, it is free from MS (minus the OS and SQL DB). If adding Linux to this is a possibility, having your compliance and reporting in one tool, which can leave you from having to run tripwire enterprise or the like due to compliance requirements, might be a win.
I am not saying it is the best thing on the planet, but if it does what the theory states, that would be a huge deal to have 1 less tool to manage to provide compliance reports.
I don't understand your comment and there is zero way to store AC power (your excess from yours example). It just goes out on the grid and someone else uses it and the generator at the power plant produces less.
If you are talking about "hey I am producing more than I am using" and 4 hours later have to use more than you make, then that is the part that net metering takes into consideration. Where I live, it is $0.10 a kWh to consume, and $0.01 kWh to produce (ie. your excess from solar). They pay you for your generation and charge you for your usage.