It's my opinion that we are hesitant to make this move because the of the mental image between the US dollar bill and the strength of the nation. Politics, markets, economies aside a "greenback" is a symbol of the US as much as any monument or famous President. By making it pocket change you have marginalized the perceived strength of the US that a dollar represents in the minds of the Americans who use it.
Here was mine:
me: So, how are you today?
CB: I'm good. How are you?
me: Fine. What do you think about your recent win in the AI contest?
CB: My car I like it. Its a slug bug.
The problem I have with this is that the Grand Prize winner was only cabling the back. Having worked at a data center for a large Puget Sound software company;) and a telecommunications company I can show you rows and rows of patch panels terminated beautifully on the back. Those 48 port blocks in the top picture aren't going to change. They are just infrastructure.
The real test, as evidenced by some of the links provided in other comments, is how organized the FRONT side is.
As a v- (there are v- and a-) I hear contractors use the term when speaking of themselves.
As for treatment, in the data center enviornment "dash trash" get just as much respect.
You are probably thinking about Ambient devices, http://www.ambientdevices.com/cat/index.html a few years ago they started with the stock marked orb, then the weather beacon. They seem to target urban yuppie geeks who are trying to decrease the amount of "cute" things in their decorating.
The tech is RF based, and by subscribing to the service you can change what is displayed.
I have the weather beacon, I like it. I'll save the customer raves for Amazon.
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It's my opinion that we are hesitant to make this move because the of the mental image between the US dollar bill and the strength of the nation. Politics, markets, economies aside a "greenback" is a symbol of the US as much as any monument or famous President. By making it pocket change you have marginalized the perceived strength of the US that a dollar represents in the minds of the Americans who use it.
Here was mine: me: So, how are you today? CB: I'm good. How are you? me: Fine. What do you think about your recent win in the AI contest? CB: My car I like it. Its a slug bug.
The problem I have with this is that the Grand Prize winner was only cabling the back. Having worked at a data center for a large Puget Sound software company ;) and a telecommunications company I can show you rows and rows of patch panels terminated beautifully on the back. Those 48 port blocks in the top picture aren't going to change. They are just infrastructure.
The real test, as evidenced by some of the links provided in other comments, is how organized the FRONT side is.
As a v- (there are v- and a-) I hear contractors use the term when speaking of themselves. As for treatment, in the data center enviornment "dash trash" get just as much respect.
You are probably thinking about Ambient devices, http://www.ambientdevices.com/cat/index.html a few years ago they started with the stock marked orb, then the weather beacon. They seem to target urban yuppie geeks who are trying to decrease the amount of "cute" things in their decorating. The tech is RF based, and by subscribing to the service you can change what is displayed. I have the weather beacon, I like it. I'll save the customer raves for Amazon.