Same here. They're fooling themselves if they think that only a few customers are upset about the outrageous 60% price increase. Only a small percentage will actually say anything. There are a lot of us who know that our complaints will be ignored.
End of an era? Yes. But the era that has ended is not just the shuttle program. It is the end of the U.S. Space program. The United States will never be prominent in space again.
I DO like the idea of LED's, but they are prohibitively expensive for me right now. The prices I've seen are $25 - $65, and I have yet to see a three-way model -- which is what burns out the most at my home.
Really, around my house lighting accounts for a miniscule amount of my electrical bill. Air conditioning makes up 80% of my bill about 6 months out of the year, and the same unit, running as a heat pump, makes up 50% of my bill about 3 months out of the year.
I think this focus on domestic light bulbs for saving energy is silly. Look at us jumping through hoops to save energy, while the elementary school in the neighborhood just recently installed a bunch of new, extremely bright, unnecessary security lights, that illuminate the place as if it were a maximum security prison. Look at all the new casinos they are building in my area, lit up like Vegas 24/7. If this nation were serious about conserving electricity they could easily find ways to save.
Check your manufacturer, most of the reputable ones offer multi-year replacement guarantees on the bulbs.
Yeah, like I save the receipt of every light bulb I buy and keep a careful record of which light fixture I installed it in and when I put it in. Not only have I spent a lot of money on an "energy efficient" bulb, I've purchased a future errand, and possible fruitless hassle, if it fails before its time.
Let's figure in the total cost of an "energy efficient" bulb that prematurely fails. What about the energy required to go back to the retailer and get a replacement? What about the energy required to dispose of it properly?
Don't some lawn mowers have heat sinks like this that spin atop the engine?
Anyway, I'm much more interested in the air conditioner applications of this than electronics use. I like the idea of a quieter, 30% more efficient air conditioner/heat pump. Great article.
Yes, but I see other people's code all the time when I'm maintaining applications -- which is at least 50% of my job. Looking at other people's code, just to scrutinize it, is tedious and boring. 99% of it is mundane stuff that is not particularly innovative or interesting -- probably because 99% of the problems being solved are not unique or challenging.
At my company we do have time set aside every week for "code review". We call it that in order to satisfy management. We actually use the time to share interesting problems or solutions. That is more along the lines of what you are talking about, except it is more direct and less tedious. Just looking over someone's shoulder, hoping for the miniscule chance of seeing something interesting, is not for me. I don't have time for that.
I don't so much mind having my code looked at. But I don't like looking at other people's code. Does the application work? Great. I don't need to see your code then. If you're happy and the user is happy, I'm happy.
Here's how it happened: About 20 years ago the International Design Institute Of Transportation Services (IDIOTS) had a convention of representatives from the respective departments of transportation for different states. At that convention, someone gave a seminar, "Roundabouts: Our Intersection with the Future", in which a person, who was marginally smarter than the other convention attendees, and who knew how to use Powerpoint, extolled the virtues of roundabouts. One pointy-haired attendee, who had never had an original thought in his life, decided roundabouts were a great idea, and when he returned home, proceeded to push through projects for their construction at every opportunity. At future IDIOTS conventions, this pointy-haired bureaucrat boasted that roundabouts had saved his state enormous amounts of money, and other IDIOTS members took this information back to their states, and the idea spread. Now, roundabouts are popping up all over the place, often in areas where they are completely useless, because IDIOTS recommend them as a cure-all to every traffic problem.
What SAIC did was morally wrong, BUT I am certain there were a lot of people involved in that project that allowed this to happen. One would assume that the New York City government is not being run by a bunch of ignorant hicks paying top dollar for a pig-in-a-poke. There is plenty of culpability to go around, and some city officials need to be investigated.
I imagine that it is coming from my email provider and/or Facebook. For example: I responded to a friend's post about their broken air conditioner and suddenly I started getting spam from companies offering air conditioner repair. I responded to a golf tourney invitation via email, and within hours I started getting solicitations to subscribe to Golf World magazine. It might be coincidence, but the fact that these are legitimate companies who are sending me the email (JC Penney, Radio Shack, Conde Nast, etc), compels me to believe otherwise.
This works for companies you are doing business with, and yes, I do this myself. However, if Google or Facebook are selling your email address, there isn't much you can do about it.
It depends on your definition of "spam". By my definition, I get more spam than ever. The difference is that much of it is from legit companies who comply with the CAN-SPAM law. I can opt out, but I'm getting about 100 or more of them a day, and I can't spend all day opting out of every single one of them. It may be legal, but it's still spam, as far as I'm concerned.
I don't know why. The other companies mentioned, Bank of America; AT&T, are doing just fine even though their customers hate them. Saying that it "bodes ill" for Facebook because they are universally loathed is just wishful thinking.
"But this is an object lesson in why users should never depend on the cloud or assume that their data stored on any site will be there five minutes from now."
This is why I don't understand the rush to "cloud computing".
Incidentally, I noticed that NetworkWorld does not allow copying of their content, forcing me to go to view source to get the bit I wanted. Remove the plank from your eye first, NetworkWorld, then you can better see the mote in Facebook's eye.
Whoever wrote this either cannot read, or is too lazy to read. It is not going to be easy to get these TLDs. For starters, each TLD will cost $185,000. The applications will also be investigated before the TLDs will be created.
Slashdot used to be a top-notch website, but lately the editors seem to be content to post any old bullshit as a legitimate story. This story should never have been accepted for submission.
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Same here. They're fooling themselves if they think that only a few customers are upset about the outrageous 60% price increase. Only a small percentage will actually say anything. There are a lot of us who know that our complaints will be ignored.
Whoosh!
End of an era? Yes. But the era that has ended is not just the shuttle program. It is the end of the U.S. Space program. The United States will never be prominent in space again.
I watch "Clash of the Titans" or "Troy", of course. Oh, wait a minute: I thought you said Greek nostalgia. Never mind
Soon the Chinese will be dropping bombs on us from space like kids dropping rocks onto cars from freeway overpasses!
I DO like the idea of LED's, but they are prohibitively expensive for me right now. The prices I've seen are $25 - $65, and I have yet to see a three-way model -- which is what burns out the most at my home.
Really, around my house lighting accounts for a miniscule amount of my electrical bill. Air conditioning makes up 80% of my bill about 6 months out of the year, and the same unit, running as a heat pump, makes up 50% of my bill about 3 months out of the year.
I think this focus on domestic light bulbs for saving energy is silly. Look at us jumping through hoops to save energy, while the elementary school in the neighborhood just recently installed a bunch of new, extremely bright, unnecessary security lights, that illuminate the place as if it were a maximum security prison. Look at all the new casinos they are building in my area, lit up like Vegas 24/7. If this nation were serious about conserving electricity they could easily find ways to save.
Check your manufacturer, most of the reputable ones offer multi-year replacement guarantees on the bulbs.
Yeah, like I save the receipt of every light bulb I buy and keep a careful record of which light fixture I installed it in and when I put it in. Not only have I spent a lot of money on an "energy efficient" bulb, I've purchased a future errand, and possible fruitless hassle, if it fails before its time.
Let's figure in the total cost of an "energy efficient" bulb that prematurely fails. What about the energy required to go back to the retailer and get a replacement? What about the energy required to dispose of it properly?
Don't some lawn mowers have heat sinks like this that spin atop the engine?
Anyway, I'm much more interested in the air conditioner applications of this than electronics use. I like the idea of a quieter, 30% more efficient air conditioner/heat pump. Great article.
When Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapters are outlawed, only outlaws will have Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapters!
You can have my Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapter when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers!
(A proud member of the National DisplayPort-to-HDMI Association)
Yes, but I see other people's code all the time when I'm maintaining applications -- which is at least 50% of my job. Looking at other people's code, just to scrutinize it, is tedious and boring. 99% of it is mundane stuff that is not particularly innovative or interesting -- probably because 99% of the problems being solved are not unique or challenging.
At my company we do have time set aside every week for "code review". We call it that in order to satisfy management. We actually use the time to share interesting problems or solutions. That is more along the lines of what you are talking about, except it is more direct and less tedious. Just looking over someone's shoulder, hoping for the miniscule chance of seeing something interesting, is not for me. I don't have time for that.
I don't so much mind having my code looked at. But I don't like looking at other people's code. Does the application work? Great. I don't need to see your code then. If you're happy and the user is happy, I'm happy.
Here's how it happened: About 20 years ago the International Design Institute Of Transportation Services (IDIOTS) had a convention of representatives from the respective departments of transportation for different states. At that convention, someone gave a seminar, "Roundabouts: Our Intersection with the Future", in which a person, who was marginally smarter than the other convention attendees, and who knew how to use Powerpoint, extolled the virtues of roundabouts. One pointy-haired attendee, who had never had an original thought in his life, decided roundabouts were a great idea, and when he returned home, proceeded to push through projects for their construction at every opportunity. At future IDIOTS conventions, this pointy-haired bureaucrat boasted that roundabouts had saved his state enormous amounts of money, and other IDIOTS members took this information back to their states, and the idea spread. Now, roundabouts are popping up all over the place, often in areas where they are completely useless, because IDIOTS recommend them as a cure-all to every traffic problem.
What SAIC did was morally wrong, BUT I am certain there were a lot of people involved in that project that allowed this to happen. One would assume that the New York City government is not being run by a bunch of ignorant hicks paying top dollar for a pig-in-a-poke. There is plenty of culpability to go around, and some city officials need to be investigated.
I imagine that it is coming from my email provider and/or Facebook. For example: I responded to a friend's post about their broken air conditioner and suddenly I started getting spam from companies offering air conditioner repair. I responded to a golf tourney invitation via email, and within hours I started getting solicitations to subscribe to Golf World magazine. It might be coincidence, but the fact that these are legitimate companies who are sending me the email (JC Penney, Radio Shack, Conde Nast, etc), compels me to believe otherwise.
This works for companies you are doing business with, and yes, I do this myself. However, if Google or Facebook are selling your email address, there isn't much you can do about it.
It depends on your definition of "spam". By my definition, I get more spam than ever. The difference is that much of it is from legit companies who comply with the CAN-SPAM law. I can opt out, but I'm getting about 100 or more of them a day, and I can't spend all day opting out of every single one of them. It may be legal, but it's still spam, as far as I'm concerned.
...This bodes ill for the company...
I don't know why. The other companies mentioned, Bank of America; AT&T, are doing just fine even though their customers hate them. Saying that it "bodes ill" for Facebook because they are universally loathed is just wishful thinking.
One part of the article should read like this:
"But this is an object lesson in why users should never depend on the cloud or assume that their data stored on any site will be there five minutes from now."
This is why I don't understand the rush to "cloud computing".
Incidentally, I noticed that NetworkWorld does not allow copying of their content, forcing me to go to view source to get the bit I wanted. Remove the plank from your eye first, NetworkWorld, then you can better see the mote in Facebook's eye.
I have always suspected that Tesla's REAL business model involved being bought out by one of the major automobile manufacturers.
I'm glad he's not actually in jail, otherwise I would have to start a FREE WALTER POWELL movement.
So, people get on Facebook. The use it for awhile. They decide they don't like it. The get off of it. Quelle surprise.
Whoever wrote this either cannot read, or is too lazy to read. It is not going to be easy to get these TLDs. For starters, each TLD will cost $185,000. The applications will also be investigated before the TLDs will be created.
Slashdot used to be a top-notch website, but lately the editors seem to be content to post any old bullshit as a legitimate story. This story should never have been accepted for submission.
No kidding. I saw a Navy serviceman referred to as a "soldier" recently. They're sailors, damnit, even if they are on Seal Team Six.
A story about sociopaths firing other sociopaths.
It illustrates how corporatocracy is not just a problem in the United States.