There's numerous things that can be worth paying 10 times the price. 1. Color 2. Speed 3. Different paper sizes i.e. "legal" or custom paper feed 4. Network capability 5. Extra paper trays 6. Support for a long time (being able to buy toner cartridges, maintenance kits, etc.) 6. Reliability
That last one is the key. Your printer is likely to shit out within 2 years whereas one that costs 10 times as much will likely be around for 15-20 years. More with regular maintenance (or even non-regular maintenance to fix a couple small problems).
Some of these printers are rated for page counts in the millions with regular maintenance.
Also, good luck finding replacement cartridges 2 years down the road, if your printer makes it that long.
You're also assuming that this guy is using it for home use. It may be a small office or home office printer where much printing is needed on a daily basis.
You were attempting to criticize his poor purchasing decision but apparently you didn't bother to think about what's actually going on here before flaming.
Why should it be rated troll or off-topic? It is neither of those two things. It is an on-topic post that adds valuable information to the discussion. Doesn't matter where it's placed.
"just 1.9 degrees above absolute zero - colder than deep space." This statement is completely false and meaningless. Deep space is EMPTY and thus DOES NOT HAVE A TEMPERATURE. Yes, 1.9 K is cold, but it has nothing to do with space.
"The union did nothing to stop management from taking that action." And you know this.... how?
Did you work in the administration? No. Does your friend work in the administration? No. (You said he was in IT) Are you in the union? No.
So, how exactly do you know that they took no action? How do you know that there were no phone calls from the union? No emails?
I think you're simply assuming that there was no action because the guy got fired in the end. But just as a lack of evidence does not prove that the union took action, it does not prove that they did not. You have no basis for you assumption because you're not working on limited information, you're working on absolutely nothing but hearsay from a friend who wouldn't be privy to the information if it did exist.
I might as well speculate as to the classified policies of the military simply because I know a guy who is an ex-army soldier.
We have a problem with unions. The solution is obviously to take huge actions and restructure the entire government.... right.
Look, the people who wrote the declaration of independence and the constitution were all supportive of armed rebellion and restructuring when necessary. But I have yet to see a single one that supported a huge uprising for small matters that could be better solved without restructuring the country.
There's a huge fucking difference between the way things were 90 years ago, with child labor and whatnot, and the way they are now. Insisting that unions are necessary in the same capacity is not just provably wrong, but also stupid and ignorant.
Just what exactly do you think the LHC people have been doing these last several years? The rest of the world that can't fathom why the LHC is taking so long also believes that this thing will create black holes that will destroy the world. These people are called idiots and their opinion matters not because they haven't bothered to do any research other than watching what nonsense the media is talking about it. (90% of the media is: "The LHC will smash atoms at fast speeds.... or something")
Building something this big is amazingly complicated and requires a lot of time. Considering the amazing complexity of this device, it's quite spectacular that it's happened this quickly. Traffic projects consisting of a paved, flat surface often get delayed longer than the LHC with has a fuckload of amazingly complicated scientific instruments in it.
It does not have to be laborious. It has to be FAIR. Generally, being fair implies a good deal of paperwork and due process which becomes somewhat tedious. Of course, no one is saying that teachers should be fired on a whim.
However, the union isn't protecting due process or preventing unethical firings. They simply cause so much hell that it takes hundreds of thousands of dollars and several years to fire a teacher. This isn't due process and this isn't fair, it's just nonsense
You didn't actually address anything you said you would. "Defending the inept" has nothing to do with monitors or anything else you mentioned. It has to do with the unions bitching at employers whenever the employer tries to fire an employee (and thus a union member) that can't do their job. There isn't much legal action here because it all happened awhile back and the employers don't want to go through the legal struggle again. After they fight the union and loose once, they aren't likely to do it again.
As for petty crap, you just illustrated his point quite clearly. "Yes, but the employers are worse!". I worked over this summer (I'm currently a student) in a king soopers deli. I had to be part of the union. It was absolutely nothing but "the company sucks" and then "the union sucks". I've seen more intelligent conversations from fifth graders bickering on the playground about whose turn it is at kickball.
Unions, as I see them, are still necessary to prevent employers from overstepping their boundaries, but have grown far too big and wasteful. Most of the money taken out of my paycheck went towards more bickering and political contributions than anything that actually even helped me or one of my coworkers. In fact, the union didn't help me at all whatsoever in the 3 months I worked there.
You're making the assumption that this meat will taste poor. This assumption is completely unfounded. The scientist even states that this is a problem that must be solved before it can be brought to market.
On the contrary, I believe that this will create better tasting meat. It's done in a laboratory in a controlled environment such that you can control absolutely everything about the meat. Think about it, 100% lean meat that's easier and cheaper to make than the 60 fat 40 lean from a real animal that you can buy currently. Everyone would be able to afford meat of a quality greater than USDA prime at less than half the price.
You also get rid of the worries about mad cow as well.
The only problem here is that we're going to have a bunch of idiots that never even graduated high school bitching that eating this artificial meat will turn you into a pig. The same people that 15 years ago were bitching that "genetically modified food will turn you into a tomato".
No, they did do unethical things however. In the engineering industry, failure to abide by the ethics obligations of whatever certification board you're certified with generally results in the end of your career. The banking industry should be no different.
The better question is why the hell did you have access to it in the first place if you "didn't need it". If it's something that an employee shouldn't be looking at, then it's really as much ITs fault as it is the employee's that the data was accessed. I mean, corporate espionage and disgruntled employees are nothing new. It's not like this recession is causing some amazing new problem that never existed before. There should already be systems in place to prevent this kind of thing.
You can't switch doctors? Would you care to back this up with some evidence? The reason people are afraid of "socialized" healthcare is that people like you spread vicious rumors, lies, falsehoods, incorrect information about something you know nothing about. Why don't you go look this up somewhere from an independent source of information, (that is to say, not fox news, not the insurance companies' own brochures, etc.) and then come back and discuss the merits of the two systems?
Furthermore, how easy is it for you to switch your doctor here in the united states? Can you just go to any doctor? NO, you can't. You have to deal with your insurance company first, and they can deny you the right to switch doctors (well, they can't stop you from switching, but they can stop paying, which is EXACTLY the same thing). And if you need evidence of this, simply call up your insurance right now and ask them if you can switch.
First question, is she sure it was actually locked down? Some of those settings sound like nonsense to the non-technical. Second, is she the one that posted the photos? If someone else posted photos of her on a public page, anyone can see them.
When in the hell has management ever been reasonable? "Do X on a budget of less than half what you need, twice as fast as possible, I went to a training seminar, I know it can be done" seems pretty familiar.
> Is it fair to charge more to CMU students compared to Pitt students just because they pay more tuition?
Is it fair to charge one group of taxpayers more than another just because they make more taxable income? Society has said yes to that, regardless of whether it might drive out the higher income payers.
You seem to be confused about how tax works. See, tuition is money that is PAID by the person to the university. Taxing income (i.e. income tax) is taxing money that the person RECEIVES.
I'm not entirely sure how you decided the two were comparable.
You stupid fuck. You didn't get into any event for "free". Holy god you're fucking retarded. You pay your university TUITION (you know, that check your parents probably write for you that says "don't spend on booze" in the memo field). The university then SPENDS part of this TUITION (aka MONEY) on perks for the students. So yes, you're actually paying for this "free" stuff.
Seriously, how in the hell did you get into college without understanding some amazingly basic accounting or economics? Are you a liberal arts major by any chance?
Furthermore, "we could care less". You dipshit, it's "we COULDN'T care less". If you COULD care less about something then you obviously care about it a great deal. This isn't some amazingly nit-picky analytical argument here either, this is a very simple phrase that's used a lot. Apparently, you heard some people say it and didn't bother to think for more than 2 seconds before you decided to add it to your vocabulary.
I suppose that a science major would be able to figure out where his money is going, a writer would know about very simple word definitions (hell, this isn't even grammar, it's basic definitions of words), a history major would be analytical enough to think about where his money is going before posting, so I'm guessing you're majoring in art. Yeah, good luck with that.
And they decided to start with a university..... Several thousand students united in poverty living in amazingly close proximity to one another attending an institution which requires amazingly high thinking ability to even enter, let alone graduate.
University students are (on average) dirt poor. (I mean, unless you actually want to fucking cite some evidence to the contrary rather than just proclaiming it to be true). What is this bullshit about students not paying much rent? Are land lords charging other people more than college students or something I'm not aware of? Also what is this bullshit about college students using lot's of services? College students don't magically use more services than anyone else just because they're in college.
As for your remark about students borrowing money to attend college, I have only one conclusion. You wanted to go to college but were either too lazy or too stupid and either never went or dropped out early. You think that because you did OK that no one else needs college and you resent people who actually have the ability to learn something more advanced than what little knowledge you gained from high school. Go ahead and tax college students, but don't be surprised when you're paying $1000 per doctor visit due to a lack of doctors because no one could afford to attend college.
Again, your poor decision not to attend college cannot drive policy.
This has already been done before, and been done much better. This guy is just throwing random shit into random industrial equipment. Yeah, i guess it is a lot like MS code. Throw enough shit at the wall and some of it will stick. This isn't cooking, this is brute force mutilation of food.
You don't just take a random piece of equipment and say "hey, let's throw all sorts of food into this and see if it makes it taste good". You think about what you can use the equipment for, then what you need done to food. You look for how these two things coincide. Yeah, there's a bit of experimentation involved, but it's not random shit. You don't take a damn ultrasonic welder and say "LOLOL LET'S USE THIS ON FOODSTUFFS AND CALL IT COOKING!!!"
Typical MS nonsense.
REAL chefs use rotovaps for distilling marinades and such. Things that the equiptment is good for. They use temperature controlled baths to control the temperature of things that need to be temperature controlled. They don't use 10 ton presses at all. Ten tons is good for just about nothing except obliterating your food.
You're not taking into account all of the people that are higher than the people IN the high school. The management for the district. In my district they had a HUGE budget fuckup (Colorado, St. Vrain valley school district) many years back. This prompted them to go digging through everything to cut money everywhere.
They discovered nonsense like having 3 people full time to do nothing but schedule janitors. This job could be done by one person part time. No suprise, they found that these people were sitting on their ass most of the time, taking 3 hour lunches, etc. Fortunately, they got that mess squared away, though there's probably others we don't know about.
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There's numerous things that can be worth paying 10 times the price.
1. Color
2. Speed
3. Different paper sizes i.e. "legal" or custom paper feed
4. Network capability
5. Extra paper trays
6. Support for a long time (being able to buy toner cartridges, maintenance kits, etc.)
6. Reliability
That last one is the key. Your printer is likely to shit out within 2 years whereas one that costs 10 times as much will likely be around for 15-20 years. More with regular maintenance (or even non-regular maintenance to fix a couple small problems).
Some of these printers are rated for page counts in the millions with regular maintenance.
Also, good luck finding replacement cartridges 2 years down the road, if your printer makes it that long.
You're also assuming that this guy is using it for home use. It may be a small office or home office printer where much printing is needed on a daily basis.
You were attempting to criticize his poor purchasing decision but apparently you didn't bother to think about what's actually going on here before flaming.
Why should it be rated troll or off-topic? It is neither of those two things. It is an on-topic post that adds valuable information to the discussion. Doesn't matter where it's placed.
"just 1.9 degrees above absolute zero - colder than deep space."
This statement is completely false and meaningless. Deep space is EMPTY and thus DOES NOT HAVE A TEMPERATURE. Yes, 1.9 K is cold, but it has nothing to do with space.
"The union did nothing to stop management from taking that action."
And you know this.... how?
Did you work in the administration? No.
Does your friend work in the administration? No. (You said he was in IT)
Are you in the union? No.
So, how exactly do you know that they took no action? How do you know that there were no phone calls from the union? No emails?
I think you're simply assuming that there was no action because the guy got fired in the end. But just as a lack of evidence does not prove that the union took action, it does not prove that they did not. You have no basis for you assumption because you're not working on limited information, you're working on absolutely nothing but hearsay from a friend who wouldn't be privy to the information if it did exist.
I might as well speculate as to the classified policies of the military simply because I know a guy who is an ex-army soldier.
We have a problem with unions. The solution is obviously to take huge actions and restructure the entire government.... right.
Look, the people who wrote the declaration of independence and the constitution were all supportive of armed rebellion and restructuring when necessary. But I have yet to see a single one that supported a huge uprising for small matters that could be better solved without restructuring the country.
There's a huge fucking difference between the way things were 90 years ago, with child labor and whatnot, and the way they are now. Insisting that unions are necessary in the same capacity is not just provably wrong, but also stupid and ignorant.
Just what exactly do you think the LHC people have been doing these last several years? The rest of the world that can't fathom why the LHC is taking so long also believes that this thing will create black holes that will destroy the world. These people are called idiots and their opinion matters not because they haven't bothered to do any research other than watching what nonsense the media is talking about it. (90% of the media is: "The LHC will smash atoms at fast speeds.... or something")
Building something this big is amazingly complicated and requires a lot of time. Considering the amazing complexity of this device, it's quite spectacular that it's happened this quickly. Traffic projects consisting of a paved, flat surface often get delayed longer than the LHC with has a fuckload of amazingly complicated scientific instruments in it.
It does not have to be laborious. It has to be FAIR. Generally, being fair implies a good deal of paperwork and due process which becomes somewhat tedious. Of course, no one is saying that teachers should be fired on a whim.
However, the union isn't protecting due process or preventing unethical firings. They simply cause so much hell that it takes hundreds of thousands of dollars and several years to fire a teacher. This isn't due process and this isn't fair, it's just nonsense
You didn't actually address anything you said you would. "Defending the inept" has nothing to do with monitors or anything else you mentioned. It has to do with the unions bitching at employers whenever the employer tries to fire an employee (and thus a union member) that can't do their job. There isn't much legal action here because it all happened awhile back and the employers don't want to go through the legal struggle again. After they fight the union and loose once, they aren't likely to do it again.
As for petty crap, you just illustrated his point quite clearly. "Yes, but the employers are worse!". I worked over this summer (I'm currently a student) in a king soopers deli. I had to be part of the union. It was absolutely nothing but "the company sucks" and then "the union sucks". I've seen more intelligent conversations from fifth graders bickering on the playground about whose turn it is at kickball.
Unions, as I see them, are still necessary to prevent employers from overstepping their boundaries, but have grown far too big and wasteful. Most of the money taken out of my paycheck went towards more bickering and political contributions than anything that actually even helped me or one of my coworkers. In fact, the union didn't help me at all whatsoever in the 3 months I worked there.
You're making the assumption that this meat will taste poor. This assumption is completely unfounded. The scientist even states that this is a problem that must be solved before it can be brought to market.
On the contrary, I believe that this will create better tasting meat. It's done in a laboratory in a controlled environment such that you can control absolutely everything about the meat. Think about it, 100% lean meat that's easier and cheaper to make than the 60 fat 40 lean from a real animal that you can buy currently. Everyone would be able to afford meat of a quality greater than USDA prime at less than half the price.
You also get rid of the worries about mad cow as well.
The only problem here is that we're going to have a bunch of idiots that never even graduated high school bitching that eating this artificial meat will turn you into a pig. The same people that 15 years ago were bitching that "genetically modified food will turn you into a tomato".
No, they did do unethical things however. In the engineering industry, failure to abide by the ethics obligations of whatever certification board you're certified with generally results in the end of your career. The banking industry should be no different.
The better question is why the hell did you have access to it in the first place if you "didn't need it". If it's something that an employee shouldn't be looking at, then it's really as much ITs fault as it is the employee's that the data was accessed. I mean, corporate espionage and disgruntled employees are nothing new. It's not like this recession is causing some amazing new problem that never existed before. There should already be systems in place to prevent this kind of thing.
You can't switch doctors? Would you care to back this up with some evidence? The reason people are afraid of "socialized" healthcare is that people like you spread vicious rumors, lies, falsehoods, incorrect information about something you know nothing about. Why don't you go look this up somewhere from an independent source of information, (that is to say, not fox news, not the insurance companies' own brochures, etc.) and then come back and discuss the merits of the two systems?
Furthermore, how easy is it for you to switch your doctor here in the united states? Can you just go to any doctor? NO, you can't. You have to deal with your insurance company first, and they can deny you the right to switch doctors (well, they can't stop you from switching, but they can stop paying, which is EXACTLY the same thing). And if you need evidence of this, simply call up your insurance right now and ask them if you can switch.
First question, is she sure it was actually locked down? Some of those settings sound like nonsense to the non-technical.
Second, is she the one that posted the photos? If someone else posted photos of her on a public page, anyone can see them.
When in the hell has management ever been reasonable? "Do X on a budget of less than half what you need, twice as fast as possible, I went to a training seminar, I know it can be done" seems pretty familiar.
> Is it fair to charge more to CMU students compared to Pitt students just because they pay more tuition?
Is it fair to charge one group of taxpayers more than another just because they make more taxable income? Society has said yes to that, regardless of whether it might drive out the higher income payers.
You seem to be confused about how tax works. See, tuition is money that is PAID by the person to the university. Taxing income (i.e. income tax) is taxing money that the person RECEIVES.
I'm not entirely sure how you decided the two were comparable.
You stupid fuck. You didn't get into any event for "free". Holy god you're fucking retarded. You pay your university TUITION (you know, that check your parents probably write for you that says "don't spend on booze" in the memo field). The university then SPENDS part of this TUITION (aka MONEY) on perks for the students. So yes, you're actually paying for this "free" stuff.
Seriously, how in the hell did you get into college without understanding some amazingly basic accounting or economics? Are you a liberal arts major by any chance?
Furthermore, "we could care less". You dipshit, it's "we COULDN'T care less". If you COULD care less about something then you obviously care about it a great deal. This isn't some amazingly nit-picky analytical argument here either, this is a very simple phrase that's used a lot. Apparently, you heard some people say it and didn't bother to think for more than 2 seconds before you decided to add it to your vocabulary.
I suppose that a science major would be able to figure out where his money is going, a writer would know about very simple word definitions (hell, this isn't even grammar, it's basic definitions of words), a history major would be analytical enough to think about where his money is going before posting, so I'm guessing you're majoring in art. Yeah, good luck with that.
The ironing........ god I hope that was a joke.
And they decided to start with a university..... Several thousand students united in poverty living in amazingly close proximity to one another attending an institution which requires amazingly high thinking ability to even enter, let alone graduate.
Isn't this how fucking revolutions get started?
University students are (on average) dirt poor. (I mean, unless you actually want to fucking cite some evidence to the contrary rather than just proclaiming it to be true). What is this bullshit about students not paying much rent? Are land lords charging other people more than college students or something I'm not aware of? Also what is this bullshit about college students using lot's of services? College students don't magically use more services than anyone else just because they're in college.
As for your remark about students borrowing money to attend college, I have only one conclusion. You wanted to go to college but were either too lazy or too stupid and either never went or dropped out early. You think that because you did OK that no one else needs college and you resent people who actually have the ability to learn something more advanced than what little knowledge you gained from high school. Go ahead and tax college students, but don't be surprised when you're paying $1000 per doctor visit due to a lack of doctors because no one could afford to attend college.
Again, your poor decision not to attend college cannot drive policy.
This has already been done before, and been done much better. This guy is just throwing random shit into random industrial equipment. Yeah, i guess it is a lot like MS code. Throw enough shit at the wall and some of it will stick. This isn't cooking, this is brute force mutilation of food.
You don't just take a random piece of equipment and say "hey, let's throw all sorts of food into this and see if it makes it taste good". You think about what you can use the equipment for, then what you need done to food. You look for how these two things coincide. Yeah, there's a bit of experimentation involved, but it's not random shit. You don't take a damn ultrasonic welder and say "LOLOL LET'S USE THIS ON FOODSTUFFS AND CALL IT COOKING!!!"
Typical MS nonsense.
REAL chefs use rotovaps for distilling marinades and such. Things that the equiptment is good for. They use temperature controlled baths to control the temperature of things that need to be temperature controlled. They don't use 10 ton presses at all. Ten tons is good for just about nothing except obliterating your food.
And the strongest raised floor you've ever seen in your entire fucking life. (A room full of oil weighs one hell of a lot).
"That would solve a lot of parental stress related to what to do with the kids during the day over summer vacation. "
While we're at it, why don't we just turn it into a fucking year-round daycare too. The school is not there to baby-sit kids, it's there to teach.
Where do you live? It doesn't work anything like that here. There'd be one hell of an uproar.
You're not taking into account all of the people that are higher than the people IN the high school. The management for the district. In my district they had a HUGE budget fuckup (Colorado, St. Vrain valley school district) many years back. This prompted them to go digging through everything to cut money everywhere.
They discovered nonsense like having 3 people full time to do nothing but schedule janitors. This job could be done by one person part time. No suprise, they found that these people were sitting on their ass most of the time, taking 3 hour lunches, etc. Fortunately, they got that mess squared away, though there's probably others we don't know about.