Gee, a company changes from a growth play to a profit/dividend play as the market matures and what is the reaction? Time to start digging the grave, they're finished. I remember what the press and analysts did to Microsoft under the Balmer years and think they got royally screwed. I mean, they were getting buried in cash coming in the door and yet Wall Street continued to complain that they weren't innovating enough. Now I hear the same story all the time with Apple. When a company gets to a certain size it becomes nearly impossible to move the needle. That's when companies start doing stupid financial and stock manipulations to make Wall Street happy instead of making good products. Microsoft was smart enough to avoid playing that game. Let's hope Tim Cook's Apple will be as wise.
RJ22 (the little connector on the coiled cable going to your telephone handset) could be an alternative if there's not a lot of crosstalk induced by having the pairs up against each other.
Thunderbolt could have been a contender, but as usual no one other than Apple adopted it because it was too expensive (and I'm sure there's an Intel tax or something).
No, not $5.00, but at $13 from Seeed Studio it's not too bad. The killer was that they shipped from Hong Kong and that got pretty expensive. And it has built-in WiFi. A little strange in that it runs OpenWRT instead of Debian or some standard Linux distro, but it looks like it will be fun to experiment on.
Something tells me we're going to see a lot of these cheap little computers in the coming months, especially as smartphone sales level off.
Likely an untrained contractor. One chronic problem with cable is that any tech or call center employee who has more than a 30 IQ is promoted away from customer contact, or quits and finds a better job in another industry.
I must be the exception then, because I'm losing weight on a calorie restrictive diet and aggressive exercise program. I've found that, at some points in the day I get a little hungry, but for the most part even though I'm usually eating well under 1500 kcal a day I'm just not feeling hungry. I'm eating a lot of green vegetables and drinking water, and once I get myself moving on a jog or bike ride my appetite seems to just dry up.
It probably helps that I've been in relatively good shape for most of my life, only getting fat after a dramatic job change (outside physical work to inside mental work) and getting lazy about exercise.
A Whopper with cheese is 730 calories. Add a "medium" fry @ 410 and a "medium" Coke @ 290 and the value meal weighs in at 1430 Kcal. That's one meal. https://www.bk.com/pdfs/nutrit...
Never mind snacks (Doritos are 140 Kcal/oz, a 12 oz bag is easily eaten in one mindless eating session in front of the TV), 1680 Kcal, along with beer, soda or some other sweet stuff.
And if you go out to a "real sit-down" restaurant, the sky's the limit. Mexican food is especially calorie laden, and most places have huge portions too.
I've lost 30 pounds since September just by counting calories and aggressive exercise. By preparing my own meals and weighing them it's been extremely easy to stay under my target of 1500 Kcals/day, usually under 1000. If I were still trying to diet while eating out all the time I'd be pretty much doomed to failure.
Spook #1: Well, to spy on terrorists it will take a lot of time effort and money. Congress will have to increase our budget.
Head Spook: I see. Well, that's going to make my job difficult.
Spook #2: Or how about we just spy on everyone so we can blackmail the President, Senate Intelligence Committee, whistle-blowers, the media and anyone who tries to get in our way?
Head Spook: Spook #2, congratulations! You're the new Spook #1.
The media will never go for it. Just like campaign finance reform, there's no upside for the infotainment complex. Since they're the ones controlling the discussion (and making all the money) there's 0% chance things will change.
It is cute how the AMA thinks they have some say in the matter though.
Exactly! As long as the federal government keeps their thumb on the scale for wind power, these situations will continue. This isn't the only case of negative pricing for unneeded electricity, it happens in any grid where the law is that the ISO is required to buy wind power, whether it is needed or not.
I'd take an irrational, varied marketplace over a tightly controlled ones any day. You'll find after doing some research that many of the "irrational" markets are due to influence by regulators (such as the federal reserve controlling banking, keeping interest rates lower than the market would, as an example), or rent-seeking companies getting government favors.
I pay a monthly or yearly subscription to several sites that ask for it. I like the fact that I'm directly supporting the content, and it gives me more of a connection to the sites and community around it.
THE MARKET® should be building massive housing projects in order to fill a need for inexpensive housing. Why is that not the case? Maybe because the people who run the show like sitting on a very valuable resource (buildings), so they elect officials who put plenty of restrictions in place, such as height restrictions, "open spaces" or historical districts, in order to keep their resource scarce and expensive.
Not saying that in a true free market landlords might attempt to sabotage new entrants with other methods, but at some point someone would be able to break the cartel.
Well, thank goodness the people who run banks aren't running nuclear power plants. I wouldn't want one of those idiots programming my iPhone, let alone putting them in charge of anything really important.
Believe it or not, there are still people who are accountable for their actions, and will take the time to do things correctly the first time. They don't get a lot of attention but without them society would crumble. I've met quite a few technicians in the electricity industry, and they are some of the most methodical and sober people I've ever met. They understand both the responsibility of service and dangerous nature of their work. While I've never met a nuclear plant operator, I trust that the same level of professionalism and responsibility, magnified, is the rule.
Where do you think the operators live? Do they get flown in for their shift every day? Don't be an idiot.
People live in the same sealed containers as nuclear reactors for months at a time, in nuclear submarines. They receive a lower dose of radiation during that time than we do, because water is a very effective blocker of gamma rays from outer space.
Much of the protest was organized by various environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society. The tactic they used was to introduce FUD over the lack of a "workable" evacuation plan and convincing the local government to not sign off on the plan proposed by the plant operator.
Interesting side note: One of the alternatives proposed by the protest group was solar power:
Note that the ad was sponsored by the Oil Heat Institute. When you wonder where all the money comes from for these protests, the speaking fees for the army of environmentalist speakers and authors, all those studies written at all those environmental think tanks, ask who has the most to lose? Could it be the incumbent players in the fossil fuel industry? Do you think they are worried about wind turbines that only work 30% of the time? What do you think backs up all that wind and solar? What's going to happen to those gas turbines if they replace coal with an energy source that can run up to 97% of the time and then only powers off at a scheduled time (and has a 2nd, 3rd or 4th unit right next to it to maintain service)?
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1500 hundred people to run a file server.
Reminds me of this picture from the 1990s:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...
The Apple ][ is an awesome piece of technology that nobody needs.
The Motorola Dynatac 8000 is an awesome piece of technology that nobody needs
The Psion Series 3 is an awesome piece of technology that nobody needs.
None of this stuff is actually necessary.
And it's whisper quiet!
WHAT?
I said, it's whisper quiet!
Gee, a company changes from a growth play to a profit/dividend play as the market matures and what is the reaction? Time to start digging the grave, they're finished. I remember what the press and analysts did to Microsoft under the Balmer years and think they got royally screwed. I mean, they were getting buried in cash coming in the door and yet Wall Street continued to complain that they weren't innovating enough. Now I hear the same story all the time with Apple. When a company gets to a certain size it becomes nearly impossible to move the needle. That's when companies start doing stupid financial and stock manipulations to make Wall Street happy instead of making good products. Microsoft was smart enough to avoid playing that game. Let's hope Tim Cook's Apple will be as wise.
But they also won't drink a 64 oz glass of OJ either, but a soft drink that size is available at any US gas station.
RJ22 (the little connector on the coiled cable going to your telephone handset) could be an alternative if there's not a lot of crosstalk induced by having the pairs up against each other.
Thunderbolt could have been a contender, but as usual no one other than Apple adopted it because it was too expensive (and I'm sure there's an Intel tax or something).
Last week after a long wait I finally got my Linkit Smart 7688 boards:
http://home.labs.mediatek.com/...
No, not $5.00, but at $13 from Seeed Studio it's not too bad. The killer was that they shipped from Hong Kong and that got pretty expensive. And it has built-in WiFi. A little strange in that it runs OpenWRT instead of Debian or some standard Linux distro, but it looks like it will be fun to experiment on.
Something tells me we're going to see a lot of these cheap little computers in the coming months, especially as smartphone sales level off.
Likely an untrained contractor. One chronic problem with cable is that any tech or call center employee who has more than a 30 IQ is promoted away from customer contact, or quits and finds a better job in another industry.
Every technician worth anything has an RD book in his truck:
http://www.scte.org/documents/...
Everything you need to spec, design, build and maintain a cable system.
Wow! I guess if there's a thing, there's a hate group for it.
This gets me thinking I should become an "anti-oxogenist" and see if it takes off.
People also waste a lot of time at the office and call it working.
I must be the exception then, because I'm losing weight on a calorie restrictive diet and aggressive exercise program. I've found that, at some points in the day I get a little hungry, but for the most part even though I'm usually eating well under 1500 kcal a day I'm just not feeling hungry. I'm eating a lot of green vegetables and drinking water, and once I get myself moving on a jog or bike ride my appetite seems to just dry up.
It probably helps that I've been in relatively good shape for most of my life, only getting fat after a dramatic job change (outside physical work to inside mental work) and getting lazy about exercise.
You're assuming someone is going to try to eat "the right foods."
A Whopper with cheese is 730 calories. Add a "medium" fry @ 410 and a "medium" Coke @ 290 and the value meal weighs in at 1430 Kcal. That's one meal.
https://www.bk.com/pdfs/nutrit...
Never mind snacks (Doritos are 140 Kcal/oz, a 12 oz bag is easily eaten in one mindless eating session in front of the TV), 1680 Kcal, along with beer, soda or some other sweet stuff.
And if you go out to a "real sit-down" restaurant, the sky's the limit. Mexican food is especially calorie laden, and most places have huge portions too.
I've lost 30 pounds since September just by counting calories and aggressive exercise. By preparing my own meals and weighing them it's been extremely easy to stay under my target of 1500 Kcals/day, usually under 1000. If I were still trying to diet while eating out all the time I'd be pretty much doomed to failure.
My guess is it went a little like this...
Spook #1: Well, to spy on terrorists it will take a lot of time effort and money. Congress will have to increase our budget.
Head Spook: I see. Well, that's going to make my job difficult.
Spook #2: Or how about we just spy on everyone so we can blackmail the President, Senate Intelligence Committee, whistle-blowers, the media and anyone who tries to get in our way?
Head Spook: Spook #2, congratulations! You're the new Spook #1.
The media will never go for it. Just like campaign finance reform, there's no upside for the infotainment complex. Since they're the ones controlling the discussion (and making all the money) there's 0% chance things will change.
It is cute how the AMA thinks they have some say in the matter though.
Actually, in Colorado if you want the tax credits for installing solar you cannot connect a battery storage system:
Exactly! As long as the federal government keeps their thumb on the scale for wind power, these situations will continue. This isn't the only case of negative pricing for unneeded electricity, it happens in any grid where the law is that the ISO is required to buy wind power, whether it is needed or not.
I'd take an irrational, varied marketplace over a tightly controlled ones any day. You'll find after doing some research that many of the "irrational" markets are due to influence by regulators (such as the federal reserve controlling banking, keeping interest rates lower than the market would, as an example), or rent-seeking companies getting government favors.
I pay a monthly or yearly subscription to several sites that ask for it. I like the fact that I'm directly supporting the content, and it gives me more of a connection to the sites and community around it.
THE MARKET® should be building massive housing projects in order to fill a need for inexpensive housing. Why is that not the case? Maybe because the people who run the show like sitting on a very valuable resource (buildings), so they elect officials who put plenty of restrictions in place, such as height restrictions, "open spaces" or historical districts, in order to keep their resource scarce and expensive.
Not saying that in a true free market landlords might attempt to sabotage new entrants with other methods, but at some point someone would be able to break the cartel.
Well, thank goodness the people who run banks aren't running nuclear power plants. I wouldn't want one of those idiots programming my iPhone, let alone putting them in charge of anything really important.
Believe it or not, there are still people who are accountable for their actions, and will take the time to do things correctly the first time. They don't get a lot of attention but without them society would crumble. I've met quite a few technicians in the electricity industry, and they are some of the most methodical and sober people I've ever met. They understand both the responsibility of service and dangerous nature of their work. While I've never met a nuclear plant operator, I trust that the same level of professionalism and responsibility, magnified, is the rule.
Where do you think the operators live? Do they get flown in for their shift every day? Don't be an idiot.
People live in the same sealed containers as nuclear reactors for months at a time, in nuclear submarines. They receive a lower dose of radiation during that time than we do, because water is a very effective blocker of gamma rays from outer space.
Plane chips off the outer layer of concrete, is crumpled up like an accordion.
Shoreham Nuclear Power plant built, but never started after massive public protest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Much of the protest was organized by various environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society. The tactic they used was to introduce FUD over the lack of a "workable" evacuation plan and convincing the local government to not sign off on the plan proposed by the plant operator.
Interesting side note: One of the alternatives proposed by the protest group was solar power:
http://atomicinsightscom.c.pre...
Note that the ad was sponsored by the Oil Heat Institute. When you wonder where all the money comes from for these protests, the speaking fees for the army of environmentalist speakers and authors, all those studies written at all those environmental think tanks, ask who has the most to lose? Could it be the incumbent players in the fossil fuel industry? Do you think they are worried about wind turbines that only work 30% of the time? What do you think backs up all that wind and solar? What's going to happen to those gas turbines if they replace coal with an energy source that can run up to 97% of the time and then only powers off at a scheduled time (and has a 2nd, 3rd or 4th unit right next to it to maintain service)?