I've brought meal-replacement/-augment powders with me on travels, usually in a large plastic jar, usually off-white coloured powders. On XRays it looks like liquids, so always take it out of your carry-on (don't put it in your checked-in luggage).
Best experience yet was in Poland, where an officer opened the jar and sniffed it - I had to bite down on my lip to keep from laughing out loud from the look on his face (it smells...bad'ish), though I'm sure he noticed I found it amusing. He proceeded to ask me to taste it, to indicate that it was indeed edible, which I did.
Stop buying cheap-ass CFLs? Proper ones are at >90% brightness within 2 seconds (from my experience), and while the "60W equivalent" rating stuff is usually BS, all LED/CFL bulbs will show a lumens rating, that is generally correct.
We had an on-TV competition back home, to find the first person from our country to "go into space" (non-orbital), ticket paid by the TV show! Some woman won, and was told she would be the first one......latest news, someone else, completely unrelated to the TV show, is now training to become an astronaut, and will likely be the first one. (have not been able to find anything about what happended to the TV show contestant).
A school-district in Denmark (Odder) is reporting ca 15% breakage, with an average cost-per-incident of around 200USD. This has resulted in first-year costs being ca 2x of what was expected.
Public Transport: * Weekly delays on trains (I took a train to work daily for some years) * City-busses not showing up when going to/from schools (supposedly runs every 6-8 minutes - 40 minutes without any busses) * Ticketing system that several times has required using 2 tickets to open the new gates * Gates at metro-station refusing to let people out, or slammed shut on an old woman (employees ignored the incident) * Semi-regular cancellations or closed stations on metro
Phones: * Belgacom spending 1.5 month repeatedly failing to correctly reroute a phone-number * Phone/internet/IPTV failing at least once monthly for hours, for no apparent reason * Having to plead with telecoms to get a technician to come correct their installations * Cellphones (plural) not able to receive calls due to yet-another-outage * Home-phone randomly switching number whenever someone on the local road moves in/out
Over the last 7 years, the number of issues in especially these areas have been staggering, and year-on-year I have more issues with phones/cellphones/internet than i ever had in total in my home-country. No malice, they are really either incompetent or sabotaging themselves.
Does it matter? Telecoms, like public transit and other activities, is an area where Belgians are, beyond question, incompetent to a degree that you'd be inclined to argue must be due to malice....
While my employer is not quite as bad, any effort I take outside of work is for my benefit, not theirs - they've made it 100% clear that an investment on my behalf simply will not be worth it.
Wouldn't it simply be a question of whether the government ever need to do either GM or a company run by Dan Ackerson a favour, they refer to this case and say, "sorry, we're disinclined"...?
10 years is a long time to switch, I can see that being an impediment to other cities following suit. Are they sharing details of the changeover experience? It would be quite valuable to have a list of the major problems that made this take a decade rather than a year.
10yrs for a government body to get most anything IT done is *fast*. Even if a local government, 10yrs ain't slow.
Slashdot Mirror
So, can someone please explain to me why the deliberate destruction of Slashdot would be in Dice's business interest?
It is not business interest - someone at Dice got trolled on /. once, and is now taking revenge ...
*hug*
I thought Obama got his for being "not George W. Bush".
EVE's subscriber base isn't exactly growing.
According to CCP and others, EVE is the only for-pay MMO, that is, in fact, still growing and has grown continually since its birth.
I've brought meal-replacement/-augment powders with me on travels, usually in a large plastic jar, usually off-white coloured powders.
On XRays it looks like liquids, so always take it out of your carry-on (don't put it in your checked-in luggage).
Best experience yet was in Poland, where an officer opened the jar and sniffed it - I had to bite down on my lip to keep from laughing out loud from the look on his face (it smells...bad'ish), though I'm sure he noticed I found it amusing. He proceeded to ask me to taste it, to indicate that it was indeed edible, which I did.
I'd take this up with the manufacturer - meanwhile, tried LED based lighting? Thinking for a porch flood-light, high-power LEDs should work fairly OK.
wow - my YoY salary increase at that time was effectively negative, due to being less than inflation :(
This is where I usually close the tab and don't bother visit the site.
An example of a manufacturer, that will tell you a lot of statistics:
@GNious - a good question. We have a white palette as well as the colour palette. Range from 2800 - 8000 kelvin. CRI 80 - 90ish :)
https://twitter.com/LIFXLabs/status/378581115176759296
Stop buying cheap-ass CFLs?
Proper ones are at >90% brightness within 2 seconds (from my experience), and while the "60W equivalent" rating stuff is usually BS, all LED/CFL bulbs will show a lumens rating, that is generally correct.
Ease of hiring? Took our company 15 months to hire 6 phone-support guys, that we were contractually required to have in place loooong ago.
Was taken to a historical town in the US - couldn't help but snicker half the time...
We had an on-TV competition back home, to find the first person from our country to "go into space" (non-orbital), ticket paid by the TV show! ... ...latest news, someone else, completely unrelated to the TV show, is now training to become an astronaut, and will likely be the first one.
Some woman won, and was told she would be the first one
(have not been able to find anything about what happended to the TV show contestant).
G+ is a thing - might not be to you, but it is a thing.
A school-district in Denmark (Odder) is reporting ca 15% breakage, with an average cost-per-incident of around 200USD.
This has resulted in first-year costs being ca 2x of what was expected.
Of course, the circles are very small, since no one else uses google+.
Is good no-one else uses Google+ - the 10-50 daily posts in my stream is more than enough! Good thing I turn off updates from communities.
3) All but the most expensive do not light up nearly as quickly as traditional;
This is a feature - place the cheap ones in bedroom and other places where you don't want the light to insta-blind you :)
Public Transport:
* Weekly delays on trains (I took a train to work daily for some years)
* City-busses not showing up when going to/from schools (supposedly runs every 6-8 minutes - 40 minutes without any busses)
* Ticketing system that several times has required using 2 tickets to open the new gates
* Gates at metro-station refusing to let people out, or slammed shut on an old woman (employees ignored the incident)
* Semi-regular cancellations or closed stations on metro
Phones:
* Belgacom spending 1.5 month repeatedly failing to correctly reroute a phone-number
* Phone/internet/IPTV failing at least once monthly for hours, for no apparent reason
* Having to plead with telecoms to get a technician to come correct their installations
* Cellphones (plural) not able to receive calls due to yet-another-outage
* Home-phone randomly switching number whenever someone on the local road moves in/out
Over the last 7 years, the number of issues in especially these areas have been staggering, and year-on-year I have more issues with phones/cellphones/internet than i ever had in total in my home-country. No malice, they are really either incompetent or sabotaging themselves.
They didn't understand his problem and didn't care. They wanted revenge.
Sounds like could use a regime of medication themselves...
Does it matter? Telecoms, like public transit and other activities, is an area where Belgians are, beyond question, incompetent to a degree that you'd be inclined to argue must be due to malice....
I assume that was before the US went on an invasion-spree....?
While my employer is not quite as bad, any effort I take outside of work is for my benefit, not theirs - they've made it 100% clear that an investment on my behalf simply will not be worth it.
Wouldn't it simply be a question of whether the government ever need to do either GM or a company run by Dan Ackerson a favour, they refer to this case and say, "sorry, we're disinclined"...?
10 years is a long time to switch, I can see that being an impediment to other cities following suit. Are they sharing details of the changeover experience? It would be quite valuable to have a list of the major problems that made this take a decade rather than a year.
10yrs for a government body to get most anything IT done is *fast*.
Even if a local government, 10yrs ain't slow.
Yeah, let's make it build up more pressure before release - that'll work juuuuust fine! :)
Note: Please don't do this anywhere near where I live, go on vacation or work.