...but Internet based means you cannot even play freecell without paying for an ISP. And for the millions (or billions when speaking globally) who couldn't get affordable net access even if they could afford it, well, bummer.
you get an estimate up-front, and if the contractor goes over then he'd better either eat the cost or have a damned good reason for the extra money.
What you talking about is a quote, not an estimate. If I hired a contractor to say, build me a deck, they would give me an estimate. If the costs exceed the estimate, I have three options: eat the additional cost myself or negotiate a partial payment to the contractor for the percentage completed, fire them, and hire another one to finish the job.
What I should have done was gotten a estimate, and then a signed quote included a maximum cost overrun clause (usually no more than 10%). Of course, with this NASA project, I don't what the original cost of this motor was supposed to be. Was is $80 million over the original estimate of $10 million? Or was it a $75 million dollar project, that went 8% over budget?
Who said anything about being ripped off? We are talking cost overruns, not corruption. A better analogy would be if I estimated how much my table would cost, but was off by a couple hundred bucks. I wouldn't be too happy about it, but it would hardly be of serious concern since it only amounted to 0.5% of my total budget.
But no company can make something and offer no help or support, period. That's not legal.
A bit OT here, but...what!? The law (at least in the US) makes no requirement I am aware of forcing manufactures to provide any support for anything. The free market does that for them.
You buy an oak coffee table from the local furniture factory, they are not going to give you any 'support'. If you get it home and it falls apart after an hour, you are on your own....unless the factory realizes the value of customer service and chooses to help you out.
There are a few exceptions for life and safety concerns (i.e. airplanes, medical equipment, et al are required to provide support), those are rare.
The cost problems include an $80 million overrun on a motor system
Well, that's sucks I guess. But since NASA has something like a $17 billion budget, isn't that a colossal non-issue? I realize this was just the motor system, but if I had a $40,000 budget to furnish a new home, I don't think I would be concerned if the coffee table was $20 more than I was expecting.
Isn't that like Elmer Fudd running off a cliff and not falling because he had not learned about gravity?
Has not this view been repeatedly disproved by now? Have there not been several cases of babies raised from birth as, say, girls; only to reach puberty and feel like a boy in a dress? When the issue is investigated further it is found that the individual was actually a physically boy all along, but the parents decided (due to hermaphroditic deformities, extreme gender preference, et al) to raised them as a girl. The child did not suddenly develop those feelings when someone told them they were actually male. They had an inherent masculine personality.
This being the modern, alternate-lifestyle tolerating, 'don't judge anyone' time we live in....will undeniable evidence be required to prove one is female? Will applications need to drop trow (or lift skirt) to allow the scientific community to prove the theory that one is actually a woman?
My only question is (well, your first question anyway) , how much more insult to our intelligence can we take as a society before we start actively protesting? Our freedom, our privacy, our health and our dignity is being taken from us and all we can do is complain on the Internet? Where are the protesting groups? Where are the outraged people desperate to change the situation? Where are the angry mobs? What else are we going to let them take away from us before we stop talking and start acting?
Let's take this one question at a time:
how much more insult to our intelligence can we take as a society before we start actively protesting? Until the insult turns into something that physically hurts.
Our freedom, our privacy, our health and our dignity is being taken from us and all we can do is complain on the Internet? Pretty much, yeah.
Where are the protesting groups? Panem et Circenses my friend.
Where are the outraged people desperate to change the situation? Where are the angry mobs? See previous question.
What else are we going to let them take away from us before we stop talking and start acting? I suspect some modern form of prima nocturne. But even then, there's TV to distract them.
Not so much. Sometimes the users data is written to the bi file, only to become corrupted before the that file can be added to the database. Layer 7 is blissfully unaware of this and presents no error. So the users continues to enter data only to find the following day that somebody's clock hours didn't get recorded. Can they enter then again? For 300 teachers? Only if they guess what the number were....
It's not. But the parent was implying that corporation should follow the same model. I was just pointing out that for-profit companies need to pay their people a bit more than non-profit love-in projects like Wikipedia.
you need to focus on a handful highly-talented IT people rather than an army of droids
As long as these IT people are willing to work well below the industry pay-scale (often for free), then yeah, that would work great. Notice that most of the Wiki IT staff also have to have 'day jobs' to feed/clothe/house themselves.
From TFA: "But losing a few seconds of changes doesn't destroy our business."
Our organizations' databases (also a non-profit) get several thousand writes per second. Losing 'a few seconds' would mean potentially hundreds of users' record changes were lost. If that happened here, it would be a huge deal. If it happened regularly, it would destroy the business.
When addressing a diverse (possibly global) audience, always use 'Washington State'. Saying simply 'Washington' leads many to think of Washington D.C. But how can a WSU alum remember that when they are still recovering from the drunken parties of yesteryear.
I can't say I would want a bucky ball as a personal home either, and frankly, am confused as to why anyone would even think a geodesic dome would work for such. However the Tacoma Dome in Washington State is a geodesic dome and works very well as an arena. No leaks or anything. Don't blame the design man...;-)
I see it as family's or the older generation that still have land lines. Well them, and anyone who has DSL, or wants a communications device that doesn't depend on LOS to a cell tower, or wants equipment with a lifespan exceeding 5-10 years.
But what if you trust your IT staff and they betray that trust? The only way a user would know they were snooped was to be technical enough to work in IT themselves. The IT folks would never do that to me...or would they?
I know a place where they have'nt changed the root/admin passwords in years. They have so many servers that it would be "a huge pain" (their words exactly) to change all the passwords. I wonder how much of a pain it would be for a former DBA or sysadmin to snoop around and start publicly posted how much everybody makes?
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...but Internet based means you cannot even play freecell without paying for an ISP. And for the millions (or billions when speaking globally) who couldn't get affordable net access even if they could afford it, well, bummer.
...if all the cars in the Daytona ran the entire race one at a time and they all just compared time afterward. Thrilling!
What you talking about is a quote, not an estimate. If I hired a contractor to say, build me a deck, they would give me an estimate. If the costs exceed the estimate, I have three options: eat the additional cost myself or negotiate a partial payment to the contractor for the percentage completed, fire them, and hire another one to finish the job.
What I should have done was gotten a estimate, and then a signed quote included a maximum cost overrun clause (usually no more than 10%). Of course, with this NASA project, I don't what the original cost of this motor was supposed to be. Was is $80 million over the original estimate of $10 million? Or was it a $75 million dollar project, that went 8% over budget?
Who said anything about being ripped off? We are talking cost overruns, not corruption. A better analogy would be if I estimated how much my table would cost, but was off by a couple hundred bucks. I wouldn't be too happy about it, but it would hardly be of serious concern since it only amounted to 0.5% of my total budget.
A bit OT here, but...what!? The law (at least in the US) makes no requirement I am aware of forcing manufactures to provide any support for anything. The free market does that for them.
You buy an oak coffee table from the local furniture factory, they are not going to give you any 'support'. If you get it home and it falls apart after an hour, you are on your own....unless the factory realizes the value of customer service and chooses to help you out.
There are a few exceptions for life and safety concerns (i.e. airplanes, medical equipment, et al are required to provide support), those are rare.
Well, that's sucks I guess. But since NASA has something like a $17 billion budget, isn't that a colossal non-issue? I realize this was just the motor system, but if I had a $40,000 budget to furnish a new home, I don't think I would be concerned if the coffee table was $20 more than I was expecting.
Isn't that like Elmer Fudd running off a cliff and not falling because he had not learned about gravity?
Has not this view been repeatedly disproved by now? Have there not been several cases of babies raised from birth as, say, girls; only to reach puberty and feel like a boy in a dress? When the issue is investigated further it is found that the individual was actually a physically boy all along, but the parents decided (due to hermaphroditic deformities, extreme gender preference, et al) to raised them as a girl. The child did not suddenly develop those feelings when someone told them they were actually male. They had an inherent masculine personality.
This being the modern, alternate-lifestyle tolerating, 'don't judge anyone' time we live in....will undeniable evidence be required to prove one is female? Will applications need to drop trow (or lift skirt) to allow the scientific community to prove the theory that one is actually a woman?
Wow. That's a textbook Yogi-ism (e.g. 'no one goes to that restaurant because it's always so crowded').
I already have it. So many sweaty Germans.
A bit OT here, but don't forget 'wisdom' after intelligence. So many people stop at intelligence.
Let's take this one question at a time:
how much more insult to our intelligence can we take as a society before we start actively protesting?
Until the insult turns into something that physically hurts.
Our freedom, our privacy, our health and our dignity is being taken from us and all we can do is complain on the Internet?
Pretty much, yeah.
Where are the protesting groups?
Panem et Circenses my friend.
Where are the outraged people desperate to change the situation? Where are the angry mobs?
See previous question.
What else are we going to let them take away from us before we stop talking and start acting?
I suspect some modern form of prima nocturne. But even then, there's TV to distract them.
Not so much. Sometimes the users data is written to the bi file, only to become corrupted before the that file can be added to the database. Layer 7 is blissfully unaware of this and presents no error. So the users continues to enter data only to find the following day that somebody's clock hours didn't get recorded. Can they enter then again? For 300 teachers? Only if they guess what the number were....
It's not. But the parent was implying that corporation should follow the same model. I was just pointing out that for-profit companies need to pay their people a bit more than non-profit love-in projects like Wikipedia.
From TFA: "But losing a few seconds of changes doesn't destroy our business."
Our organizations' databases (also a non-profit) get several thousand writes per second. Losing 'a few seconds' would mean potentially hundreds of users' record changes were lost. If that happened here, it would be a huge deal. If it happened regularly, it would destroy the business.
When addressing a diverse (possibly global) audience, always use 'Washington State'. Saying simply 'Washington' leads many to think of Washington D.C.
But how can a WSU alum remember that when they are still recovering from the drunken parties of yesteryear.
If you just go directly to the geodesic dome article, it lists the Tacoma Dome as the largest geodesic dome in the US.
I can't say I would want a bucky ball as a personal home either, and frankly, am confused as to why anyone would even think a geodesic dome would work for such. However the Tacoma Dome in Washington State is a geodesic dome and works very well as an arena. No leaks or anything. Don't blame the design man... ;-)
I see it as family's or the older generation that still have land lines. Well them, and anyone who has DSL, or wants a communications device that doesn't depend on LOS to a cell tower, or wants equipment with a lifespan exceeding 5-10 years.
But what if you trust your IT staff and they betray that trust? The only way a user would know they were snooped was to be technical enough to work in IT themselves. The IT folks would never do that to me...or would they?
I know a place where they have'nt changed the root/admin passwords in years. They have so many servers that it would be "a huge pain" (their words exactly) to change all the passwords. I wonder how much of a pain it would be for a former DBA or sysadmin to snoop around and start publicly posted how much everybody makes?
The Interviewer: And I'm not sure I want to think about what posterity is going to think about a recording of my Twitter feed.
If Twitter becomes so mainstream so as to be more than a 'remember when?' to posterity I will kill myself.
They're called italics. No need to YELL so much.
So if the lab represents a natural environment, then I wonder what the scientists represent? They must represent random chance.