To quote (I think Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson): "Once the people in power realize they can vote themselves a pay raise, Democracy will die." Same thing for companies and their bosses.
The reasons for that are many fold. The NRC (nuclear regulatory commission) changes its mind every few weeks on things, delaying construction, increasing costs (having to re-do plans, re-do work, etc.). The cost for land is a lot more when there is no imminent domain that can be claimed by the Federal Government, it is a private company. Companies cannot just charge more if they want, they have to get the approval from state regulators to change their rate base to get the money to build these plants.
So lets say they get their rate change of $0.01 kWh increase so they can build the plant. They have to get approval from the NRC and DoE (Department of Energy) to build it. Once they spend about $2 billion to build the plant. This is a huge financial risk for the power company. In France, the risk is taken by the government, not individual companies. One final thought, there has not been a power plant approved by the NRC since the late 70's. All plants that have been requested have been denied.
I sit here and read most of these responses, and wonder why this is a big deal. There are two things that come to mind. 1) Saturday delivery does nothing but add another day to get something in the mail. If it was a priority, it could have been delivered (via higher rate) on a previous day. If you need it on Saturday, pay for it to be delivered on that day. What you are complaining about is just you don't want to pay more for a service that typically has been provided for the cheap. 2) Post Office used to mean letters. In the last couple decades, it became packages, boxes of Christmas presents, books, DVDs from Amazon, etc. Let the companies that have infrastructure for that, handle that. There is a UPS and FEDex for large boxes. Now if you limit what can be sent, then you don't have to worry about trucks being full, and packages overflowing boxes, etc. Limit it to things that can fit in to a defined, mailbox. If they don't have to get out of the truck or go to the door, get rid of it. Then you have an efficient system and you have now shifted the burden to other companies and changed the definition of Post. Simple.
It was our god Apollo and his sister Artemis fighting again. He decided to streak across the night sky naked in his sun chariot, now Artemis will have to show the moon during the daylight time. These crazy kids do this all the time. I think Zeus will get pissed at this and we will get thunderstorms later today. (Look up Indiana weather for today - Thunderstorms !!).
You have to define Cyber Security. Do you mean Code Hacking, Network Sniffing, Biometric Algorithm Creation, new Theoretical Application Creation, Compliance Program Expert, Firewall Manager, etc. Each different job requires a different skill set. If you want someone that can do all of these, then you have to pay the proper salary for that person, wait 10 years after they graduate so they have the skills to do each of those jobs, etc. Currently the Cyber jobs I look for want all of those things, plus 10 years experience, when the fields have only existed for a few years. Define Cyber Security - and then define what you are willing to compensate and define the requirements then you will be able to make broad statements about enough people in the field to fill a job requirement.
There are four main reasons why you don't get the fuel economy that is posted for the EPA listing.
1) The EPA test is supposed to create a test for driving a car that is the same across all US sold vehicles. It is not supposed to be a test of real world driving (they revised it a year or two ago, so it would be closer, but it is still no where perfect). I mean when you drive on the highway who drives 45 miles an hour? With brief stints to 60 MPH. I mean in Indiana we have 70 MPH highways. Heck yeah I am driving 70+. But the EPA test does not go to 70, and when I drive for 2 hours on the interstate, I am at cruise control and the car switches to the overdrive gear at 50 MPH and is running at 2200 RPM at 70. That is why we don't get better gas mileage on the highway (or near what is advertised there). The EPA test for City driving has you going to 55 mph and only has a few stops. That is not my city. I mean I drive no more that 35 MPH and stop every 0.2 miles.
2) The car companies (all, including foreign) play the MPG game. They tune their cars to get better MPG for the test and screw what a real world driver would drive under normal conditions. It has not been until recently that the two have been relatively close.
3) The US people want one thing, more power. They want their car to have 250 horsepower with 300 ft/lbs of torque. Then they want 50 MPG on the highways. There is only so much that can be done to marry the two up. Remember those old Toyota Corollas from 1990. They were a POS to drive but they got great gas mileage. They had a 80 HP motor, accelerated like a snail going uphill and were as loud as a lawn mower but they got almost 60 MPG. That is what the Europeans drive.
4) The US for some reason thinks Diesel is a bad word. They had crappy Diesel cars in the late 70's which did not work properly and were a billow of smoke which for the environmentally contentious people hated.. because it hurt the ozone. So now they have better Diesels. I would love to drive a diesel. Put it in my car right now. But, no manufacturer will do it in the US because of the EPA, and because of many state laws about diesel purification rules. Most other countries don't have those issues.
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
-- Tacitus, Roman senator and historian (A.D. c.56-c.115)
"The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be."
- Lao-tzu, The Tao Te Ching (believed written in China, 6th century BC).
Define "exceptionally remote". Do you mean someplace you cannot get a phone line to? My parents live on an island, in Michigan. They have a phone, they are within a few hundred yards of the CO, but cannot get broadband because they say it costs too much for them. According to AT&T they are "exceptionally remote". At the end of the day, they are going to have to define all this or it becomes bunk.
The only way I will ever agree with either music or movie industries about loosing money is if they use general accounting practices. Lookup hollywood accounting and you will see what I mean. Here is one about music. http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
I saw a lot at Lucky Plaza, Wisma Atria, and Scott's Towers off Orchard Blvd. during the mid 80's when I lived there. Those were the days, getting $2 (Sing) Cassettes and $5 (Sing) CDs. I still have Top Gun and Back to the Future soundtracks from those days:) However when Singapore decided to enforce copyrights and then cassettes went to about $15 and CDs were $38 Sing (about 2:1 US at the time) was a sad day.
However they used to have devices to copy old cartridges from Atari 2600 games, as well as Apple II games, etc. Man those were the days:)
WA, MO, TX, TN, IN, MN, MI... I have lived in each of these states in the last 10 years and bought Dells while living in each, and been charged sales tax. If there is another state that does not get charged sales tax from Dell, I would like to know:)
Dell collects sales taxes (or they have on my last 10 PCs I have purchased for family members). Agree 100% with your point, just pointing out that fact.
I have had 3 different panasonic laser printers and have all worked well. If you find the right ones, you don't have to buy their specific toner cartridges, just bulk toner. I have a KX-MB781 which I picked up at frys for $99 bucks (you can still see it from time to time). I print about 50,000 pages a year on it, and no problems. Have not had to replace the drum or anything. Toner is bulk replace, and cheap. Only issue is the drivers, has to be windows at this point - could not get it to work with ubuntu. It did not matter, I just printer PDFs and printed on a windows machine if I had to print from my Linux OS box.
If you went into IT for the reason of glory, you were mistaken, as it never existed. There was a sense of power as you knew more than most people which and achievement when you solved something no one else could solve. People congratulated you for those efforts, but it was not glory, it was momentary achievements.
I wish I could remember the author here on slashdot (probably 10 years ago I remember these comments), but he said the following:
IT is not a field for Glory, if you want glory go and get an MBA. IT is not a field for big pay, if you want huge salaries, go get your MBA. IT is not a glamor field where you get the ladies, go pick any other field on the planet if you want that. If you want to go into IT, you will be asked to work long hours, get little respect from the company, and have your priorities shift faster than unpicked lotto ping pong balls. However, if you love computers, love being able to problem solve, love working with emerging technology, and don't mind any of the previous statements, then IT might be the field for you.
agreed. I never said that it was the right way to be done, however that it can be done.
at the end of the day, you need to compare apples to apples on the lot and the EPA wanted to make it easy for people to determine that. I think the rules on cars/trucks are shit, but at the end of the day, everyone has to play by the same rules (however unrealistic they are).
I think people just don't want to get home and realize they paid a shit ton of cash on a car, and not know they are going to get with a certain type of car. In the 70's people got that shock with the original SUVs. Then the Govt. wanted a way to classify cars by polution, etc. That is why we have what is in place today, not really to try to upsell a car. People always want the latest and greatest. If they were on the lot, then they were already looking as it was.
Funny - the IRS has guidelines on how much gas costs, and how much energy costs. They update those tables frequently. Maybe the DOT states simple that "In 2010, Gas is $2.50 and Electricity is 10.5 cents/KWh." Simple.
I have AD on my file server (and DNS, exchange, etc.) but setup through group policy folder re-direction of the "my documents" to a \\server\user\mydocs directory. Every user that has a domain gets these files created automatically. I also created the local settings folders as well (thus outlook and things like that) in the \\server\user\settings directories. For my linux box I create a folder/mnt/user then in the/etc/fstab create a mount there with full rights. Then finally in my linux box home directory, I have a documents folder, which I create a link to the mount point.
For MP3 and other files they are stored in a separate directory on the same NAS on the windows box, create mounts for them in linux, and can access them via windows shares published in AD. However I use Jiznora as the front end to access all my music and files.
It is not a lot of work to setup, and took maybe 30 minutes once I had the servers up and an AD setup. All pcs can connect in my house (wireless, etc.) and also my xbox 360.
My TV is 6 years old. HDCP was not around when this TV was made. I do know that DVI does support HDCP, however, my is old enough that it was not in the spec around then.
I think you are missing the point for the DVD/VHS transition. DVD replaced VHS because it was pretty simple as well. Yes there are menus and features, but still before DVD, VHS cost $20 a tape. Then all of a sudden you had new $500 players and $30 dollar disks for DVDs. Does any of this sound familiar. Then all of a sudden, VHS went for cheap. Players dropped in price, so did the media and the DVD media/player went to the former VHS price point. Do you think 2 years ago I could walk into best buy, and get a movie on DVD for $7.50 (not on a holiday sale or what not) that was a $300 million seller in the US not 5 months after its DVD release? Nope.. sorry.
What you see now is a new method of deployment of the same thing. Yes it looks better, but it is the same thing. If DVDs stripped off the other soundtracks, alternate crap, etc. they could fit almost 720p on a disk. However most TVs could not handle that at the time, and also they needed something like DVI or HDMI or composite interfaces.
My point is this. We are seeing the same process again as we saw almost 12 years ago (1997) with Blu-Ray. Also I am sorry but your techno talk about copying DVDs and VHS, etc. does not hold water for anything that I can see. 90% or more of the population don't backup their DVDs. If Johnny scratches the hell out of it or Suzie uses it for a coaster in her tea set, then guess what, they buy a new one. I don't know of a single person in my family that backs up their DVDs. Let's see, 8 M.S. degrees in engineering and science, almost everyone has a B.S. and not a single one wants to spend the time to back up their DVDs. Once it is gone, they get a new one.
Can I do what you are saying? Yes. Would I love Blu-Ray? Yes. But my TV won't play it (DVI ports, no HDMI port, but has 1080P, and no ATSC tuner). Thus HDCP is the hamstring for me. Do I want to replace my 52" TV with a new one? Nope. No reason. It works. The other reason is it is EXPENSIVE to go to Blu-Ray. Once Blu-Ray comes to 10-15 dollar a disk and around 100 bucks a drive, then you will see mass adoption. Until then. It is a Christmas present to the technonerd in the family, and not going to replace the DVD embedded TVs, etc. already out there.
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To quote (I think Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson): "Once the people in power realize they can vote themselves a pay raise, Democracy will die." Same thing for companies and their bosses.
Rob Roy reference?
The reasons for that are many fold. The NRC (nuclear regulatory commission) changes its mind every few weeks on things, delaying construction, increasing costs (having to re-do plans, re-do work, etc.). The cost for land is a lot more when there is no imminent domain that can be claimed by the Federal Government, it is a private company. Companies cannot just charge more if they want, they have to get the approval from state regulators to change their rate base to get the money to build these plants.
So lets say they get their rate change of $0.01 kWh increase so they can build the plant. They have to get approval from the NRC and DoE (Department of Energy) to build it. Once they spend about $2 billion to build the plant. This is a huge financial risk for the power company. In France, the risk is taken by the government, not individual companies. One final thought, there has not been a power plant approved by the NRC since the late 70's. All plants that have been requested have been denied.
I sit here and read most of these responses, and wonder why this is a big deal. There are two things that come to mind. 1) Saturday delivery does nothing but add another day to get something in the mail. If it was a priority, it could have been delivered (via higher rate) on a previous day. If you need it on Saturday, pay for it to be delivered on that day. What you are complaining about is just you don't want to pay more for a service that typically has been provided for the cheap. 2) Post Office used to mean letters. In the last couple decades, it became packages, boxes of Christmas presents, books, DVDs from Amazon, etc. Let the companies that have infrastructure for that, handle that. There is a UPS and FEDex for large boxes. Now if you limit what can be sent, then you don't have to worry about trucks being full, and packages overflowing boxes, etc. Limit it to things that can fit in to a defined, mailbox. If they don't have to get out of the truck or go to the door, get rid of it. Then you have an efficient system and you have now shifted the burden to other companies and changed the definition of Post. Simple.
Human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher in which human ingenuity cannot break. --- Edgar Alan Poe
All they have to do is obtain the info from facebook and then people can manage their settings on this new site, and it is done .. :)
It was our god Apollo and his sister Artemis fighting again. He decided to streak across the night sky naked in his sun chariot, now Artemis will have to show the moon during the daylight time. These crazy kids do this all the time. I think Zeus will get pissed at this and we will get thunderstorms later today. (Look up Indiana weather for today - Thunderstorms !!).
You have to define Cyber Security. Do you mean Code Hacking, Network Sniffing, Biometric Algorithm Creation, new Theoretical Application Creation, Compliance Program Expert, Firewall Manager, etc. Each different job requires a different skill set. If you want someone that can do all of these, then you have to pay the proper salary for that person, wait 10 years after they graduate so they have the skills to do each of those jobs, etc. Currently the Cyber jobs I look for want all of those things, plus 10 years experience, when the fields have only existed for a few years. Define Cyber Security - and then define what you are willing to compensate and define the requirements then you will be able to make broad statements about enough people in the field to fill a job requirement.
There are four main reasons why you don't get the fuel economy that is posted for the EPA listing.
.. because it hurt the ozone. So now they have better Diesels. I would love to drive a diesel. Put it in my car right now. But, no manufacturer will do it in the US because of the EPA, and because of many state laws about diesel purification rules. Most other countries don't have those issues.
1) The EPA test is supposed to create a test for driving a car that is the same across all US sold vehicles. It is not supposed to be a test of real world driving (they revised it a year or two ago, so it would be closer, but it is still no where perfect). I mean when you drive on the highway who drives 45 miles an hour? With brief stints to 60 MPH. I mean in Indiana we have 70 MPH highways. Heck yeah I am driving 70+. But the EPA test does not go to 70, and when I drive for 2 hours on the interstate, I am at cruise control and the car switches to the overdrive gear at 50 MPH and is running at 2200 RPM at 70. That is why we don't get better gas mileage on the highway (or near what is advertised there). The EPA test for City driving has you going to 55 mph and only has a few stops. That is not my city. I mean I drive no more that 35 MPH and stop every 0.2 miles.
2) The car companies (all, including foreign) play the MPG game. They tune their cars to get better MPG for the test and screw what a real world driver would drive under normal conditions. It has not been until recently that the two have been relatively close.
3) The US people want one thing, more power. They want their car to have 250 horsepower with 300 ft/lbs of torque. Then they want 50 MPG on the highways. There is only so much that can be done to marry the two up. Remember those old Toyota Corollas from 1990. They were a POS to drive but they got great gas mileage. They had a 80 HP motor, accelerated like a snail going uphill and were as loud as a lawn mower but they got almost 60 MPG. That is what the Europeans drive.
4) The US for some reason thinks Diesel is a bad word. They had crappy Diesel cars in the late 70's which did not work properly and were a billow of smoke which for the environmentally contentious people hated
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." -- Tacitus, Roman senator and historian (A.D. c.56-c.115)
"The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be." - Lao-tzu, The Tao Te Ching (believed written in China, 6th century BC).
Define "exceptionally remote". Do you mean someplace you cannot get a phone line to? My parents live on an island, in Michigan. They have a phone, they are within a few hundred yards of the CO, but cannot get broadband because they say it costs too much for them. According to AT&T they are "exceptionally remote". At the end of the day, they are going to have to define all this or it becomes bunk.
The only way I will ever agree with either music or movie industries about loosing money is if they use general accounting practices. Lookup hollywood accounting and you will see what I mean. Here is one about music. http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
I saw a lot at Lucky Plaza, Wisma Atria, and Scott's Towers off Orchard Blvd. during the mid 80's when I lived there. Those were the days, getting $2 (Sing) Cassettes and $5 (Sing) CDs. I still have Top Gun and Back to the Future soundtracks from those days :) However when Singapore decided to enforce copyrights and then cassettes went to about $15 and CDs were $38 Sing (about 2:1 US at the time) was a sad day.
However they used to have devices to copy old cartridges from Atari 2600 games, as well as Apple II games, etc. Man those were the days :)
WA, MO, TX, TN, IN, MN, MI ... I have lived in each of these states in the last 10 years and bought Dells while living in each, and been charged sales tax. If there is another state that does not get charged sales tax from Dell, I would like to know :)
Dell collects sales taxes (or they have on my last 10 PCs I have purchased for family members). Agree 100% with your point, just pointing out that fact.
I have had 3 different panasonic laser printers and have all worked well. If you find the right ones, you don't have to buy their specific toner cartridges, just bulk toner. I have a KX-MB781 which I picked up at frys for $99 bucks (you can still see it from time to time). I print about 50,000 pages a year on it, and no problems. Have not had to replace the drum or anything. Toner is bulk replace, and cheap. Only issue is the drivers, has to be windows at this point - could not get it to work with ubuntu. It did not matter, I just printer PDFs and printed on a windows machine if I had to print from my Linux OS box.
If you went into IT for the reason of glory, you were mistaken, as it never existed. There was a sense of power as you knew more than most people which and achievement when you solved something no one else could solve. People congratulated you for those efforts, but it was not glory, it was momentary achievements.
I wish I could remember the author here on slashdot (probably 10 years ago I remember these comments), but he said the following:
IT is not a field for Glory, if you want glory go and get an MBA. IT is not a field for big pay, if you want huge salaries, go get your MBA. IT is not a glamor field where you get the ladies, go pick any other field on the planet if you want that. If you want to go into IT, you will be asked to work long hours, get little respect from the company, and have your priorities shift faster than unpicked lotto ping pong balls. However, if you love computers, love being able to problem solve, love working with emerging technology, and don't mind any of the previous statements, then IT might be the field for you.
Especially $1 bills ... I am not surprised.
agreed. I never said that it was the right way to be done, however that it can be done.
at the end of the day, you need to compare apples to apples on the lot and the EPA wanted to make it easy for people to determine that. I think the rules on cars/trucks are shit, but at the end of the day, everyone has to play by the same rules (however unrealistic they are).
I think people just don't want to get home and realize they paid a shit ton of cash on a car, and not know they are going to get with a certain type of car. In the 70's people got that shock with the original SUVs. Then the Govt. wanted a way to classify cars by polution, etc. That is why we have what is in place today, not really to try to upsell a car. People always want the latest and greatest. If they were on the lot, then they were already looking as it was.
Funny - the IRS has guidelines on how much gas costs, and how much energy costs. They update those tables frequently. Maybe the DOT states simple that "In 2010, Gas is $2.50 and Electricity is 10.5 cents/KWh." Simple.
It is called OnStar .. why do you think I pull out the fuse when I buy a new GM vehicle.
I have AD on my file server (and DNS, exchange, etc.) but setup through group policy folder re-direction of the "my documents" to a \\server\user\mydocs directory. Every user that has a domain gets these files created automatically. I also created the local settings folders as well (thus outlook and things like that) in the \\server\user\settings directories. For my linux box I create a folder /mnt/user then in the /etc/fstab create a mount there with full rights. Then finally in my linux box home directory, I have a documents folder, which I create a link to the mount point.
For MP3 and other files they are stored in a separate directory on the same NAS on the windows box, create mounts for them in linux, and can access them via windows shares published in AD. However I use Jiznora as the front end to access all my music and files.
It is not a lot of work to setup, and took maybe 30 minutes once I had the servers up and an AD setup. All pcs can connect in my house (wireless, etc.) and also my xbox 360.
My TV is 6 years old. HDCP was not around when this TV was made. I do know that DVI does support HDCP, however, my is old enough that it was not in the spec around then.
I think you are missing the point for the DVD/VHS transition. DVD replaced VHS because it was pretty simple as well. Yes there are menus and features, but still before DVD, VHS cost $20 a tape. Then all of a sudden you had new $500 players and $30 dollar disks for DVDs. Does any of this sound familiar. Then all of a sudden, VHS went for cheap. Players dropped in price, so did the media and the DVD media/player went to the former VHS price point. Do you think 2 years ago I could walk into best buy, and get a movie on DVD for $7.50 (not on a holiday sale or what not) that was a $300 million seller in the US not 5 months after its DVD release? Nope .. sorry.
What you see now is a new method of deployment of the same thing. Yes it looks better, but it is the same thing. If DVDs stripped off the other soundtracks, alternate crap, etc. they could fit almost 720p on a disk. However most TVs could not handle that at the time, and also they needed something like DVI or HDMI or composite interfaces.
My point is this. We are seeing the same process again as we saw almost 12 years ago (1997) with Blu-Ray. Also I am sorry but your techno talk about copying DVDs and VHS, etc. does not hold water for anything that I can see. 90% or more of the population don't backup their DVDs. If Johnny scratches the hell out of it or Suzie uses it for a coaster in her tea set, then guess what, they buy a new one. I don't know of a single person in my family that backs up their DVDs. Let's see, 8 M.S. degrees in engineering and science, almost everyone has a B.S. and not a single one wants to spend the time to back up their DVDs. Once it is gone, they get a new one.
Can I do what you are saying? Yes. Would I love Blu-Ray? Yes. But my TV won't play it (DVI ports, no HDMI port, but has 1080P, and no ATSC tuner). Thus HDCP is the hamstring for me. Do I want to replace my 52" TV with a new one? Nope. No reason. It works. The other reason is it is EXPENSIVE to go to Blu-Ray. Once Blu-Ray comes to 10-15 dollar a disk and around 100 bucks a drive, then you will see mass adoption. Until then. It is a Christmas present to the technonerd in the family, and not going to replace the DVD embedded TVs, etc. already out there.
Funny if his name was Sheldon Cooper