Quite honestly, I think a lot of people understand they are complete, overpriced shit. Unfortunately, the competitors appear to be mainly moderately or reasonably priced shit from a security perspective. The question comes down to accountability for the person purchasing/configuring it: can you at least say it was a best-of-breed device and was properly configured for an appropriate level of security, or will you need to say that the purchasing decision was made to save $400 and buy something else...

It seems the only solid approach now is security in depth... which gets expensive quickly. I can just imagine my small business trying to manage our network like a fortune-500 company (should). There are limits as to what you can do, and you hit them quickly when the vendors you select are inept.

Arguably they need lower penetrating frequencies to solve the problem. More access points makes things better.

Most Uber drivers aren't full-time. You need your own car which is up to their standards. Driving for Uber is a lot like a second job at McDonalds... only where you need to spend a lot more to make marginally above minimum wage.

Unfortunately, that isn't really true. In my area, flagging a taxi on a Friday night was no big deal. Weekends were "gravy" for taxi drivers, so they busted their asses to get fares and actually earn a few bucks. Uber absorbed 80% of the weekend evening traffic within 12 months, making it difficult to actually find a taxi willing to do a $10 fare.

Some of the taxi drivers figured out that they were in trouble quickly, and couldn't afford the gate fees from the taxi company, so they went from Taxi drivers to the Town Car Program (TCP). With TCP they needed to buy their own commercial liability insurance, but they eliminated the taxi company's cut-- the only limitation is they cannot take flag fares anymore, but they had their own unofficial network of drivers that effectively made them a taxi company.

About half those people have since given up. Uber has pulled too much of the money from the equation to make driving a taxi work anymore. Going from earning $150/day after costs down to $100/day is only a solution if you are truly desperate. (Many days aren't that good.)

While Uber might have a few things right, their system is gamed as much as the taxi system-- only now they are able to take 20-30% of the cash out of the pot for "arranging rides."

The number of studies done over the years all agree. Manual labor is more pronounced (limited IIRC to 10%), and youth have a less pronounced immediate impact (but a more dramatic long-term impact). I personally haven't seen studies with regards to accuracy, although I think something was done among medical residents.

Screw you! I can do my job just fine in less than 30 hours in the office per week. Why would I want to take a pay cut!?

If you are a contract worker, you should be charging about 2x your salaried hourly rate, to cover self employment tax, retirement plan, sick, vacation, and holiday pay, overhead costs, and ...profit!

When you charge that rate, for at least 1,600 hours billed per year, you come out ahead.

As an incorporated contractor you can have significant tax breaks. One example is you can contribute $56k per year to your 401k, limit the social security tax you need to pay, and take many expenses prior to paying any taxes on the income.

No it isn't; you don't get anything more done, unless it is for one (maybe two) weeks out of 8-12 weeks, and even then it is limited to about a 15-20% increase for those weeks.

Speaking as an employer who needs to get an "honest week's work" consistently out of my employees, I discourage overtime. There are a few exceptions (deadlines must be met, sometimes people have to chip in more to cover for others on vacation our overloaded, etc.), and we pay straight hourly wages for salaried employees earning less than $80k. The big exception is entry level engineers, who generally need to put in more than 40 hours per week in order to cover both trip aiming and "working" time.

The alternative is hiring and firing, which doesn't really work for either side.

If we are forced to pay time-and-a-half overtime for an entry level engineer (more importantly is the idea of them being non-exempt-- which means they need to have scheduled breaks and lunch), we will never hire an engineer without appropriate experience in our field again. Young professionals being treated like factory, retail, or unskilled labor destroys a professional work ethic. Professionals manage their own time, take breaks when they need to, finish their work, and don't use a time clock.

Not really. If I had to guess, the C64 turns things off and on. A modern system optimizes energy performance, is variable volume or variable temperature, monitors CO2 levels to increase outside air when needed, etc. While BMS controls are overpriced relative to comparable consumer devices, $2MM would be around $500/point for a typical school.

Keep in mind the numbers likely include new sensors, actuators, and all that fun stuff...

No, I am switching to windows so I can actually find a person that will charge me $125-135/hour. I will admit though, the preferred consultant's hourly rate is $85/hour. He does "know Linux," but he thinks we are best served with windows..

Sadly, as someone who has been using Linux about as long as I have been visiting /., I am switching our servers to windows for this very reason. I cannot find consultants that can support our systems for a reasonable cost, and I don't have the time to do it myself. It is really going to kill me when I have to dump asterisk for the same reason and go with some hosted cloud BS that costs 3x per line.

Then staple at regular intervals and keep good bending radii. For the record though, if you have 2x12's 16"oc with one 2" hole and the rest 1.25" you can feed pretty good lengths of schedule 20 PVC conduit through. No more than 3 90 degree bends...

Careful with 3/4"; 1" handles multiple drops of Cat6 much better. Also... For those who have never tried pulling cable, don't let the contractor install flexible conduit.

Also HDMI extenders and matrix extenders. Haven't priced fiber matrix extenders, but anywhere you might want artwork or a TV, give at least two Cat6. An always use it just as a power source for lighting...

Another comment-- healthy service loops at the top of each drop or where you go from j-hooks/cable tray into conduit. Makes re-purposely the cables much easier.