Your hardware bill must be obscene. If I smashed the hell out of my PC every time it did something "weird" I'd be buying a new one every week. But hell, I guess it would be fun to go full-on Office Space on a computer every other week.
So, the scaffolding that they had put up around a building by my house, when they took that down was it destroyed?
That depends, did they scrap it or dismantle it? What was the disposition of the material once it was dismantled? My guess is the serviceable material was put back into storage for later re-use, and any broken stuff was put in the scrap bin.
When my mechanic disassembles my transmission, he hasn't destroyed it. Even if the parts are later reused, then it has not been destroyed.
Again, just like my PC example and your scaffold example, you are breaking down commodity items into parts that are likely to be able to be re-used in a similar item at a later time. Do satellites fall into that "commodity item" category, where I can take a part off one and put it on to a different one? Maybe. Probably not though. The satellite in question was built in the 90s. 20 years ago. Do you think the people that built it are still around? How much would it cost to put it back together again? Still sounds pretty destroyed to me.
My guess is, you're a liberal and you feel the need to be angry, so you're changing the definition of words in such a way that it's "technically" correct but pisses all over the common meaning so you can justify your anger.
Not sure what politics has to do with anything, but if I google "scrapped" this is the first thing that comes up:
scrap verb
past tense: scrapped; past participle: scrapped
discard or remove from service (a retired, old, or inoperative vehicle, vessel, or machine), especially so as to convert it to scrap metal.
"the decision was made to scrap the entire fleet"
synonyms: throw away, throw out, dispose of, get rid of, toss out, throw on the scrapheap, discard, remove, dispense with, lose, decommission, recycle, break up, demolish; informal chuck, ditch, dump, junk, trash, deep-six
"old cars due to be scrapped""
But sure, tell me again how I'm making up words because I'm an "Angry liberal"
I scraped equipment (mostly computers) all the time as well. The process generally involved breaking it down to it's base components (talking hard drives, video cards, ram, etc. Not capacitors, resistors, circuit boards) and throwing the parts in a bin/on a shelf somewhere. After a while the bins get thrown out and the stuff on the shelves gets cannibalized for other PCs. Now, could I go back and re-assemble those computers? Sure, but not likely with the original components. That's probably fine for a PC, probably not fine for a satellite. Sounds pretty "destroyed" to me.
It has been illustrated countless times through the years given unchecked power companies behave in ways contrary to any form of common good. A free market can not exist without regulations.
The only exception to this that I've seen is at the Post Office, up until a couple years ago they would not accept a credit card that didn't have a valid signature on it. And they checked it religiously.
I hope that was a facetious comment... It's not like this was Ethan Hunt dropping out of a ceiling, avoiding the pressure sensitive floor and not tripping the sounds level monitors to steal sensitive information from a highly secure facility. The dude plugged a keylogger into a public terminal at a low-level college in the US Midwest, used the username and password to his advantage, and he couldn't even manage to do it without getting caught. The only three letter agency he's going to get into is at the local McD, getting really good at saying "would you like fries with that".
I almost never provide any salary information (not usually relevant) as there is no upside to me in providing that information.
The ONLY upside I could possibly see from providing it is it may save you time. If your last job pays you 100k, they know you're not likely to jump ship for 90k. If that's all they are willing to pay for the job it seems like that would be more useful to know up front rather than at the end of the interview process. However, the same thing could be accomplished with a "what are your salary requirements" up front. (Btw, I'm not disagreeing with you. Providing your salary history is always a dumb idea)
I just started a new job (skilled position), after my phone interview I was asked to fill out a job application prior to my in-person interview. It had the usual basic stuff: name, address, work history, etc. The work history requested starting and ending salary for the prior employers, I "neglected" to fill it out. After the technical part of the interview I met with HR to cover the non-technical stuff, the interviewer called me on it. It was something to the effect of "I see you didn't fill out any of the salary history information [long pause] what kind of salary are you looking for?"
The conversation was a little awkward, but the net effect was the same, we negotiated a salary that wasn't based on on prior history. It's not like the new company was a dick about it, but I can see how someone could be intimidated into providing that information and possibly lose some negotiating power.
Oh, and it's the EU so energy saving light-bulbs are mandatory.
While this quote didn't have a direct negative connotation to it, I'm going to assume by the tone that they don't like that they can't buy incandescent any more. My question is why? I hate incandescent lights. I have two ceiling fans and a chandelier that I am continuously changing bulbs on. It doesn't matter if it's "expensive" GE bulbs or the cheapest ones I can find at WallMart, they just don't last. Dimmable LED bulbs from WallMart go for around $2-3 a piece. The fact that these lights are the most used in my house means I'll likely make up the cost difference in a big hurry, and I (hopefully) will spend less time on a ladder changing light bulbs.
I'm with GP, I love my front load. Less water, generally less noise, don't have to stop it mid-spin-cycle to redistribute the one god-damned towel or pair of jeans throwing the balance off causing it to dance around the laundry room. But the maintenance you suggest (keeping all of the water sealing parts clean) IS an inconvenience, and if ignored causes a pretty foul odor. And when the bearing goes, you're pretty much writing off the appliance and buying a new one. So definitely not without disadvantages, but overall I won't be going back to top-load.
Keyssa alleged that despite Essential’s use of a different chip, the final Essential Phone design incorporates many of the techniques developed by Keyssa to make wireless connectors function well in a phone, from antenna designs to methods for testing phones on the manufacturing line.
I struck out trying to find the actual complaint, but based on the vague summary from the article, seems like those would be pretty hard to prove.
They do have about 50-ish patents/applications, a number of them relating to high-bandwidth interconnects. But you are correct, this lawsuit (again, from the vague article) is about trade secrets. And I'm right there with ya, the non-compete I had to sign for my new job pretty much says "unless you disclose an invention you have created on this piece of paper, if it's in any way related to our line of work, it's ours." Makes me glad my "engineering" stuff is just a hobby, and in a completely different area than my job...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransferJet: 560 Mbit/s (max) / 375 Mbit/s (effective throughput) Hardly sounds capable of "allow[ing] transfers of large files like movies in a matter of seconds".
A quick google came up with this (and a number of references to it) http://www.keyssa.com/intel_2i... claiming 5Gbps for Keyssa's tech. But sure, 375Mbps is pretty close. It's like saying LTE has been "done before" because we had TDMA 10 years ago.
nor did I shop for anything like that [emphasis mine]
Does your wife use your computer? Which leads me to a good idea.... I should start searching for anti-snoring stuff on my wife's login, maybe she'd take a hint.
At best they would have done some measurements/sims of the channel and applied an appropriate bunch of standard signal processing techniques to best deal with the channel characteristics
So Keyssa spent a bunch of time, energy, and money to develop techniques for high-speed close range data transfer using existing tool sets and you don't think that's patent-able? Isn't that 100% the point of patents? To make inventions available for others to build off of, with the ability to protect yourself if someone blatantly takes what you've invented without paying you for it?
"radio links work better when they are close together, for obvious reasons" and "it's not that hard and it's been done before" and is really your counter argument? If it was really that easy where is your example of where it's been done before? And why did it take 20 engineers and scientists 10 months to explain to Essential how to do it? I hate stupid patents as much as the next guy, but on the face of it this one seems legit.
It's almost as if those are two different tasks, that require two different sets of specialized hardware. But I hear you, I too get frustrated while trying to eat soup with a fork.
I couldn't believe it was cheaper to burn it off that to sell it. Still can't, to be honest.
It's only cheaper to burn off because it's expensive to transport. The environmental wackadoos won't let the energy companies put pipelines in the ground. The only reason they are flaring it off in ND is because there isn't a viable means of collection and transfer.
99% of the comments on here are about how easy Ikea is to assemble, and how dumb their customers are. Nobody noticed that TaskRabbit is charging 20% for this service?!?! That seems a little steep, doesn't it?
Now you're talking a completely different level of vacuum. Not really fair to compare a $400 piece of equipment to something that likely cost $1200+ in today's dollars.
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Your hardware bill must be obscene. If I smashed the hell out of my PC every time it did something "weird" I'd be buying a new one every week. But hell, I guess it would be fun to go full-on Office Space on a computer every other week.
So, the scaffolding that they had put up around a building by my house, when they took that down was it destroyed?
That depends, did they scrap it or dismantle it? What was the disposition of the material once it was dismantled? My guess is the serviceable material was put back into storage for later re-use, and any broken stuff was put in the scrap bin.
When my mechanic disassembles my transmission, he hasn't destroyed it. Even if the parts are later reused, then it has not been destroyed.
Again, just like my PC example and your scaffold example, you are breaking down commodity items into parts that are likely to be able to be re-used in a similar item at a later time. Do satellites fall into that "commodity item" category, where I can take a part off one and put it on to a different one? Maybe. Probably not though. The satellite in question was built in the 90s. 20 years ago. Do you think the people that built it are still around? How much would it cost to put it back together again? Still sounds pretty destroyed to me.
My guess is, you're a liberal and you feel the need to be angry, so you're changing the definition of words in such a way that it's "technically" correct but pisses all over the common meaning so you can justify your anger.
Not sure what politics has to do with anything, but if I google "scrapped" this is the first thing that comes up:
scrap
verb
past tense: scrapped; past participle: scrapped
discard or remove from service (a retired, old, or inoperative vehicle, vessel, or machine), especially so as to convert it to scrap metal.
"the decision was made to scrap the entire fleet"
synonyms: throw away, throw out, dispose of, get rid of, toss out, throw on the scrapheap, discard, remove, dispense with, lose, decommission, recycle, break up, demolish;
informal chuck, ditch, dump, junk, trash, deep-six "old cars due to be scrapped""
But sure, tell me again how I'm making up words because I'm an "Angry liberal"
Yes, we get it, government is bad. Enjoy haggling with Fire Protection Corp about the cost of extinguishing a fire while your house burns down.
Glad I'm not the only one who read "butthole" the first time I read the headline.
I scraped equipment (mostly computers) all the time as well. The process generally involved breaking it down to it's base components (talking hard drives, video cards, ram, etc. Not capacitors, resistors, circuit boards) and throwing the parts in a bin/on a shelf somewhere. After a while the bins get thrown out and the stuff on the shelves gets cannibalized for other PCs. Now, could I go back and re-assemble those computers? Sure, but not likely with the original components. That's probably fine for a PC, probably not fine for a satellite. Sounds pretty "destroyed" to me.
https://slashdot.org/~pdavisge...
Hover over the UID. I thought this was a tech site?
It has been illustrated countless times through the years given unchecked power companies behave in ways contrary to any form of common good. A free market can not exist without regulations.
The only exception to this that I've seen is at the Post Office, up until a couple years ago they would not accept a credit card that didn't have a valid signature on it. And they checked it religiously.
I hope that was a facetious comment... It's not like this was Ethan Hunt dropping out of a ceiling, avoiding the pressure sensitive floor and not tripping the sounds level monitors to steal sensitive information from a highly secure facility. The dude plugged a keylogger into a public terminal at a low-level college in the US Midwest, used the username and password to his advantage, and he couldn't even manage to do it without getting caught. The only three letter agency he's going to get into is at the local McD, getting really good at saying "would you like fries with that".
Yeah, I've heard of those/saw them online, but I don't recall seeing them as an option in the states.
I almost never provide any salary information (not usually relevant) as there is no upside to me in providing that information.
The ONLY upside I could possibly see from providing it is it may save you time. If your last job pays you 100k, they know you're not likely to jump ship for 90k. If that's all they are willing to pay for the job it seems like that would be more useful to know up front rather than at the end of the interview process. However, the same thing could be accomplished with a "what are your salary requirements" up front. (Btw, I'm not disagreeing with you. Providing your salary history is always a dumb idea)
I just started a new job (skilled position), after my phone interview I was asked to fill out a job application prior to my in-person interview. It had the usual basic stuff: name, address, work history, etc. The work history requested starting and ending salary for the prior employers, I "neglected" to fill it out. After the technical part of the interview I met with HR to cover the non-technical stuff, the interviewer called me on it. It was something to the effect of "I see you didn't fill out any of the salary history information [long pause] what kind of salary are you looking for?"
The conversation was a little awkward, but the net effect was the same, we negotiated a salary that wasn't based on on prior history. It's not like the new company was a dick about it, but I can see how someone could be intimidated into providing that information and possibly lose some negotiating power.
Oh, and it's the EU so energy saving light-bulbs are mandatory.
While this quote didn't have a direct negative connotation to it, I'm going to assume by the tone that they don't like that they can't buy incandescent any more. My question is why? I hate incandescent lights. I have two ceiling fans and a chandelier that I am continuously changing bulbs on. It doesn't matter if it's "expensive" GE bulbs or the cheapest ones I can find at WallMart, they just don't last. Dimmable LED bulbs from WallMart go for around $2-3 a piece. The fact that these lights are the most used in my house means I'll likely make up the cost difference in a big hurry, and I (hopefully) will spend less time on a ladder changing light bulbs.
I'm with GP, I love my front load. Less water, generally less noise, don't have to stop it mid-spin-cycle to redistribute the one god-damned towel or pair of jeans throwing the balance off causing it to dance around the laundry room. But the maintenance you suggest (keeping all of the water sealing parts clean) IS an inconvenience, and if ignored causes a pretty foul odor. And when the bearing goes, you're pretty much writing off the appliance and buying a new one. So definitely not without disadvantages, but overall I won't be going back to top-load.
Keyssa alleged that despite Essential’s use of a different chip, the final Essential Phone design incorporates many of the techniques developed by Keyssa to make wireless connectors function well in a phone, from antenna designs to methods for testing phones on the manufacturing line.
I struck out trying to find the actual complaint, but based on the vague summary from the article, seems like those would be pretty hard to prove.
They do have about 50-ish patents/applications, a number of them relating to high-bandwidth interconnects. But you are correct, this lawsuit (again, from the vague article) is about trade secrets. And I'm right there with ya, the non-compete I had to sign for my new job pretty much says "unless you disclose an invention you have created on this piece of paper, if it's in any way related to our line of work, it's ours." Makes me glad my "engineering" stuff is just a hobby, and in a completely different area than my job...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransferJet: 560 Mbit/s (max) / 375 Mbit/s (effective throughput)
Hardly sounds capable of "allow[ing] transfers of large files like movies in a matter of seconds".
A quick google came up with this (and a number of references to it) http://www.keyssa.com/intel_2i... claiming 5Gbps for Keyssa's tech. But sure, 375Mbps is pretty close. It's like saying LTE has been "done before" because we had TDMA 10 years ago.
nor did I shop for anything like that [emphasis mine]
Does your wife use your computer? Which leads me to a good idea.... I should start searching for anti-snoring stuff on my wife's login, maybe she'd take a hint.
At best they would have done some measurements/sims of the channel and applied an appropriate bunch of standard signal processing techniques to best deal with the channel characteristics
So Keyssa spent a bunch of time, energy, and money to develop techniques for high-speed close range data transfer using existing tool sets and you don't think that's patent-able? Isn't that 100% the point of patents? To make inventions available for others to build off of, with the ability to protect yourself if someone blatantly takes what you've invented without paying you for it?
"radio links work better when they are close together, for obvious reasons" and "it's not that hard and it's been done before" and is really your counter argument? If it was really that easy where is your example of where it's been done before? And why did it take 20 engineers and scientists 10 months to explain to Essential how to do it? I hate stupid patents as much as the next guy, but on the face of it this one seems legit.
It's almost as if those are two different tasks, that require two different sets of specialized hardware. But I hear you, I too get frustrated while trying to eat soup with a fork.
I couldn't believe it was cheaper to burn it off that to sell it. Still can't, to be honest.
It's only cheaper to burn off because it's expensive to transport. The environmental wackadoos won't let the energy companies put pipelines in the ground. The only reason they are flaring it off in ND is because there isn't a viable means of collection and transfer.
If you don't know how to get root in Ubuntu you probably shouldn't have access to root.
99% of the comments on here are about how easy Ikea is to assemble, and how dumb their customers are. Nobody noticed that TaskRabbit is charging 20% for this service?!?! That seems a little steep, doesn't it?
When it leaks out through your baby, I bet you change your tune...
And then he'll buy some of his own damn outlet covers. Not the landlord's responsibility to baby proof for his tenants.
You have a fair point, I should have been clearer. What I was driving at is I would expect something costing 3x more to perform better.
We still use the Electrolux canister vacuum
Now you're talking a completely different level of vacuum. Not really fair to compare a $400 piece of equipment to something that likely cost $1200+ in today's dollars.