Um, why are you including minivans there? Minivans are what American families SHOULD be buying instead of SUVs. Significantly better mileage for the same carrying capacity, and better access to that space to boot (which I'm sure is a very odd turn of phrase should you be British,lol).
Most minivans sold in American come with 3.5L high-torque engines that get 19-21 MPG so they can tow as well as carry people. It's more green to buy a Toyota Highlander than the Toyota Sienna.
The Ford T has no air conditioner, seat belt, airbags, computer assisted direction and engine or sophisticated electronic gadget. The Ford T was essentially a golf cart, and 3000$ is about right for a modern electric gold cart. If you want a revolution, peoples will have to change what they are expecting from a automobile. We can't no longer afford a 'living room' on wheel. The automobile need to return to its minimalist roots and focus on getting us from point A to point B with the less power possible.
Clearly we think we can.
What I'm tired of seeing are people with big vehicles of their own choosing (not out of necessity) who are weeping about gas prices. We Americans still have some of the cheapest gas in the world even though prices have doubled since 2004 (when I bought my first car and started really paying attention). But we expect to be able to buy a big SUV or minivan as soon as we have our first kids. Or lift our pickups and put mud tires on them. If we have had $5 gasoline, what prevents us from having $6 or $8 gas before it's time to get a new car?
80 years ago doctors were members of the middle class. Doesn't that strike you as odd?
And they still are generally upper-middle class. When you factor in 4 years of private or high-end public college, 4 years of med school, 4 years of residency (where they aren't paid as much but are worked to the bone), it's not surprising that many are still paying off their college loans while paying college tuition for their children.
When it comes to the military industrial complex, there is never enough money that can be dumped down the hole.
And from the right-wing lovers of the constitution, and haters of government spending: Complete silent obedience.
Sad but true. "Keep the government out of our medicare." "Don't tax the job creators."
But any time something is spun towards the big bad terrorists, they'll be silent when we dump billions to accomplish nothing and even bend over and spread them (literally).
Yeah, but who cares? The airlines will still order the densest, most uncomfortable seating arrangements possible for the overwhelming majority not in first or business class, just like on current planes.
Even more so since it's going to Japan. Seriously, I can't believe how crammed their domestic seats are. Then again, they fly 747's domestically! Even the USA doesn't do that (except some longer flights from the mid-west to/from Hawaii).
wait, I thought calling them Nips was non-PC these days?!!
Also, remember that "All Nippon Airways" isn't some English translation; that is the official name of the airline given by the Japanese. Nippon is one of the older western-translations of the country's name "Nihon".
Is there a reasonable expectation of privacy as it relates to what towers your phone connects to (and if it will connect to a spoofed tower?).
I.e. Postcard vs. Letter.
Is connecting to the cell tower analogous to sending a postcard? The voice call equivalent to a letter in an envelope?
-nB
The difference is that someone would have to happen upon a Postcard (unless they were specifically looking through the person's mail), which happens to have their name and address. Doing the same on a cell tower with lots of data requires a bit of cross checking to come up with the individual in question. Determining where they are based on multiple cell towers is even more involved.
Might it not be better just to cut say military spending in half? Nobody is going to invade the US, without coming home to a glass parking lot anyway, and all that money is just thrown down a hole. Yes military spending is to an extent recycled back into the economy, but surely we can come up with something more constructive to spend it on if one must spend that money?
Or we spend more wisely. Spend on the troops and give them good gear; stop spending on exotic weaponry that we couldn't use effectively in any post-Vietnam conflict.
Remember how awful the economy was when Clinton was president? Eight horrible years of peace and prosperity, thank God that's long gone.
You mean how awful the economy was when the Republicans ran Congress?
America always seems to do best when there's gridlock due to different parties controlling Congress and the White House, because the perpetual conflict ensures they can't screw things up too badly.
non-obstructionist Republicans in Congress (a la '90s, ignoring the impeachment) + Dem in the White House = peace and prosperity.
Today's Republicans think they are on the debate team and will take the opposite side of any Democrat position. I bet if the Democrats said "we are against the raping of babies", the Republicans would instinctively pick the opposite side (regardless of their personal opinion; no I am not saying or implying the Republicans are for that).
And the misspelling of Quick as Qwik... this has all the telltale signs of a 50yo CEO listening to 30yo consultants about what a 15-20yo would find "hip" and "cool".
I gree that it smacks of that, however I don't think the DVD-by-mail business generally targets 15-20 year olds. They target 30+-something codgers who still primarily uses DVD/Bluray as their media of choice.
I love it! DVD and Blue-ray is now grouped with "early bird specials" and "rotary phones."
A) People from Seattle move the CA and get funding for a CA organization
B) Amazon throws a hissy fit over having to collect taxes.(something they do in other states already)
C) Amazon just off thousand of people
D) These guys flee the state that got them started, and move to Washington so the can cozy up to the people that cut them out.
and, of course,m/. will blame CA for this, not understand this is about collection, blame CA for driving off a 2 man company, and ignore the fact that cutting people off was a strategy calculation from Amazon to put pressure to go to a one tax for all states model that have spent millions lobbying for.
As for the people who started the company? they where just leeches to get CA money and leave, this just provided a convient PR move so they can kiss amazons ass.
Not all small business owners in CA want to leech and leave; it's just prohibitively expensive to run a low-revenue operation.
Privatized only if it's paid for by the US government. If it's paid for by the airlines or by the individual airport authorities, it will not cost 10x as much as they are not honeypots of money to be thrown at problems.
The reason this post is stupid is that infrastructure is long term. When you go to the trouble of sending out a crew to dig up and put fiber in the ground your putting in an infrastructure asset that should have a 15-30 year lifespan. The fact that can average machine can't saturate it today means we're being forward thinking.
Also, data center LANs benefit from internal high speeds.
Um... utility companies have a legal monopoly. They have already gamed the system and are outside of the free market.
Power companies such as SDG&E have a legal monopoly on distribution (where they add a fixed percent upon the whole-sale cost), but there are many power-producing companies that compete on price. A lot of these smaller operations cropped up during CA's (manufactured) power-shortage.
"This new project will be re-written in a total modern way."
I can hear the counter devs talking now, you see we are going to use this really cool OOP hierarchy and this great ORM for mysql. The server is only going to consume 100MB of ram for each request it will be awesome.
ORMs and OOP don't consume that much memory per request (unless the developer using it doesn't have a clue and/or the project requires a lot of memory, which would be ORM independent). In the right hands, these tools will result in a more efficient app since they free up developer time to profile and optimize.
What, you would rather an engineer AND a communications major be required to produce the press release, in order for it to change from "uncontrolled fall" to either "planned gravitationally-assisted descent process" (if you were told to spin it "for") and "massive, fiery man-made meteor raining death on unsuspecting victims" (if you were told to spin it "against")?
You could just call those the "CNN" and "FOX" versions.
Try moving to web development. PHP is a very easy move from C (it's basically weakly-typed C without pointers), and if that turns you off, Python and Ruby shouldn't be that much more difficult to learn.
I suggest going for Python or Ruby. PHP doesn't open that many doors while Python and Ruby will open many more (especially in the bay area). Sure, it's a bit of a re-tool of your skills but we all have to do that periodically in our career.
Imagine two people sitting at an airport terminal. One person, with business attire, opens up his laptop. It's a Lenovo. Another person, dressed casually but with taste, opens a Apple MacBook Pro. Which of the two would you expect to be more affluent? The answer to that question decides if you buy Apple for looks or for usability/service, etc.
I would assume the Lenovo owner because obviously he's important enough for work to buy it for him. The guy with the Apple clearly doesn't make as much as he's working at a small company with no IT department. Or he majored in Liberal Arts.
Disclaimer: I own / use machines with OS X, Windows XP/7, and Linux.
Really? Care to guess a guess at the cost of an iPhone that had everything it is made from manufactured in say California a state that has some of the most stringent environmental laws in the entire world?
California also has one of the highest costs of living and highest minimum wage (which increases the starting salaries). If the iPhone were to be made entirely state-side, they would do fabrication in a lower-cost region such as Michigan, Ohio, and the South (which coincidentally is where they build Fords and Hondas). It'd still be expensive, but power and labor is much cheaper there.
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Janitor in the alley with a liquor bottle.
Um, why are you including minivans there? Minivans are what American families SHOULD be buying instead of SUVs. Significantly better mileage for the same carrying capacity, and better access to that space to boot (which I'm sure is a very odd turn of phrase should you be British,lol).
Most minivans sold in American come with 3.5L high-torque engines that get 19-21 MPG so they can tow as well as carry people. It's more green to buy a Toyota Highlander than the Toyota Sienna.
The Ford T has no air conditioner, seat belt, airbags, computer assisted direction and engine or sophisticated electronic gadget. The Ford T was essentially a golf cart, and 3000$ is about right for a modern electric gold cart. If you want a revolution, peoples will have to change what they are expecting from a automobile. We can't no longer afford a 'living room' on wheel. The automobile need to return to its minimalist roots and focus on getting us from point A to point B with the less power possible.
Clearly we think we can.
What I'm tired of seeing are people with big vehicles of their own choosing (not out of necessity) who are weeping about gas prices. We Americans still have some of the cheapest gas in the world even though prices have doubled since 2004 (when I bought my first car and started really paying attention). But we expect to be able to buy a big SUV or minivan as soon as we have our first kids. Or lift our pickups and put mud tires on them. If we have had $5 gasoline, what prevents us from having $6 or $8 gas before it's time to get a new car?
I already drive a '93 Saturn SL1, how much lower can I go?
'85 Geo Prizim?
80 years ago doctors were members of the middle class. Doesn't that strike you as odd?
And they still are generally upper-middle class. When you factor in 4 years of private or high-end public college, 4 years of med school, 4 years of residency (where they aren't paid as much but are worked to the bone), it's not surprising that many are still paying off their college loans while paying college tuition for their children.
Campaign finance reform is a joke, since it has to be passed by the people who benefit from its absence.
You'd think all those Tea Party types would have been all over this. Guess they don't care either.
How do you think their campaigns are being financed?
When it comes to the military industrial complex, there is never enough money that can be dumped down the hole. And from the right-wing lovers of the constitution, and haters of government spending: Complete silent obedience.
Sad but true. "Keep the government out of our medicare." "Don't tax the job creators."
But any time something is spun towards the big bad terrorists, they'll be silent when we dump billions to accomplish nothing and even bend over and spread them (literally).
Yeah, but who cares? The airlines will still order the densest, most uncomfortable seating arrangements possible for the overwhelming majority not in first or business class, just like on current planes.
Even more so since it's going to Japan. Seriously, I can't believe how crammed their domestic seats are. Then again, they fly 747's domestically! Even the USA doesn't do that (except some longer flights from the mid-west to/from Hawaii).
wait, I thought calling them Nips was non-PC these days?!!
Also, remember that "All Nippon Airways" isn't some English translation; that is the official name of the airline given by the Japanese. Nippon is one of the older western-translations of the country's name "Nihon".
Is there a reasonable expectation of privacy as it relates to what towers your phone connects to (and if it will connect to a spoofed tower?).
I.e. Postcard vs. Letter.
Is connecting to the cell tower analogous to sending a postcard? The voice call equivalent to a letter in an envelope? -nB
The difference is that someone would have to happen upon a Postcard (unless they were specifically looking through the person's mail), which happens to have their name and address. Doing the same on a cell tower with lots of data requires a bit of cross checking to come up with the individual in question. Determining where they are based on multiple cell towers is even more involved.
I've no doubt there are some sick, twisted people out there who are gonna get off on the animal cruelty pics. :(
Exactly. I think their plan might back-fire.
Might it not be better just to cut say military spending in half? Nobody is going to invade the US, without coming home to a glass parking lot anyway, and all that money is just thrown down a hole. Yes military spending is to an extent recycled back into the economy, but surely we can come up with something more constructive to spend it on if one must spend that money?
Or we spend more wisely. Spend on the troops and give them good gear; stop spending on exotic weaponry that we couldn't use effectively in any post-Vietnam conflict.
Remember how awful the economy was when Clinton was president? Eight horrible years of peace and prosperity, thank God that's long gone.
You mean how awful the economy was when the Republicans ran Congress?
America always seems to do best when there's gridlock due to different parties controlling Congress and the White House, because the perpetual conflict ensures they can't screw things up too badly.
non-obstructionist Republicans in Congress (a la '90s, ignoring the impeachment) + Dem in the White House = peace and prosperity.
Today's Republicans think they are on the debate team and will take the opposite side of any Democrat position. I bet if the Democrats said "we are against the raping of babies", the Republicans would instinctively pick the opposite side (regardless of their personal opinion; no I am not saying or implying the Republicans are for that).
And the misspelling of Quick as Qwik... this has all the telltale signs of a 50yo CEO listening to 30yo consultants about what a 15-20yo would find "hip" and "cool".
I gree that it smacks of that, however I don't think the DVD-by-mail business generally targets 15-20 year olds. They target 30+-something codgers who still primarily uses DVD/Bluray as their media of choice.
I love it! DVD and Blue-ray is now grouped with "early bird specials" and "rotary phones."
A) People from Seattle move the CA and get funding for a CA organization B) Amazon throws a hissy fit over having to collect taxes.(something they do in other states already) C) Amazon just off thousand of people D) These guys flee the state that got them started, and move to Washington so the can cozy up to the people that cut them out.
and, of course,m /. will blame CA for this, not understand this is about collection, blame CA for driving off a 2 man company, and ignore the fact that cutting people off was a strategy calculation from Amazon to put pressure to go to a one tax for all states model that have spent millions lobbying for.
As for the people who started the company? they where just leeches to get CA money and leave, this just provided a convient PR move so they can kiss amazons ass.
Not all small business owners in CA want to leech and leave; it's just prohibitively expensive to run a low-revenue operation.
Privatized only if it's paid for by the US government. If it's paid for by the airlines or by the individual airport authorities, it will not cost 10x as much as they are not honeypots of money to be thrown at problems.
The reason this post is stupid is that infrastructure is long term. When you go to the trouble of sending out a crew to dig up and put fiber in the ground your putting in an infrastructure asset that should have a 15-30 year lifespan. The fact that can average machine can't saturate it today means we're being forward thinking.
Also, data center LANs benefit from internal high speeds.
Um... utility companies have a legal monopoly. They have already gamed the system and are outside of the free market.
Power companies such as SDG&E have a legal monopoly on distribution (where they add a fixed percent upon the whole-sale cost), but there are many power-producing companies that compete on price. A lot of these smaller operations cropped up during CA's (manufactured) power-shortage.
It won't save money, because the utility companies will just raise rates to compensate for falling revenue.
Supply and demand prevents this from happening without someone gaming the system (which is illegal but did happen in CA 10 years ago).
"This new project will be re-written in a total modern way."
I can hear the counter devs talking now, you see we are going to use this really cool OOP hierarchy and this great ORM for mysql. The server is only going to consume 100MB of ram for each request it will be awesome.
ORMs and OOP don't consume that much memory per request (unless the developer using it doesn't have a clue and/or the project requires a lot of memory, which would be ORM independent). In the right hands, these tools will result in a more efficient app since they free up developer time to profile and optimize.
What, you would rather an engineer AND a communications major be required to produce the press release, in order for it to change from "uncontrolled fall" to either "planned gravitationally-assisted descent process" (if you were told to spin it "for") and "massive, fiery man-made meteor raining death on unsuspecting victims" (if you were told to spin it "against")?
You could just call those the "CNN" and "FOX" versions.
Powerful tools can cut off your fingers... but they can also allow a skilled work to create something incredible.
And that's why they call it a Skill Saw and not a Noob Saw. :-)
Try moving to web development. PHP is a very easy move from C (it's basically weakly-typed C without pointers), and if that turns you off, Python and Ruby shouldn't be that much more difficult to learn.
I suggest going for Python or Ruby. PHP doesn't open that many doors while Python and Ruby will open many more (especially in the bay area). Sure, it's a bit of a re-tool of your skills but we all have to do that periodically in our career.
Good luck!
Imagine two people sitting at an airport terminal. One person, with business attire, opens up his laptop. It's a Lenovo. Another person, dressed casually but with taste, opens a Apple MacBook Pro. Which of the two would you expect to be more affluent? The answer to that question decides if you buy Apple for looks or for usability/service, etc.
I would assume the Lenovo owner because obviously he's important enough for work to buy it for him. The guy with the Apple clearly doesn't make as much as he's working at a small company with no IT department. Or he majored in Liberal Arts.
Disclaimer: I own / use machines with OS X, Windows XP/7, and Linux.
Really? Care to guess a guess at the cost of an iPhone that had everything it is made from manufactured in say California a state that has some of the most stringent environmental laws in the entire world?
California also has one of the highest costs of living and highest minimum wage (which increases the starting salaries). If the iPhone were to be made entirely state-side, they would do fabrication in a lower-cost region such as Michigan, Ohio, and the South (which coincidentally is where they build Fords and Hondas). It'd still be expensive, but power and labor is much cheaper there.