I'm happy with my Nokia 1661. The only special features are a flashlight (quite useful) and FM radio reception (never ever use it). No camera, no WiFi, no Bluetooth. Pay €40, pop in a sim card, and go. Battery life of about a week, and it phones and texts.
Oh, and I get to wittily retort to iPhone users that I could buy 15 of these phones for the cost of their phone, and I can't even "hold it wrong"!
Of-course there is an alternative, like in European countries: you end up with only large companies, they all are heavily subsidized and regulated, but your choices of employment are diminished and your ability to open your own business are extremely limited. This eventually leads to less and less economic activity and higher and higher levels of unemployment and reliance on government.
I live and work in a small European country in a small European company that is not heavily subsidized, and only heavily regulated because we work in the medical industry where that sort of thing is par for the course. Many of the people I know are self-employed, and it's not hard by any means.
I see the EU take a lot more anti-monopolistic action than the USA too, though that is of course biased by European media reporting on it.
I raise you one box that doesn't actually have any components inside it. Totally secure, it can't even be hacked with physical access to the machine!
In other words, it may work for you, but for the vast majority of people a (secure) computer that's not attached to the network is about as useful as a bicycle is to a fish.
But sir - the twitterati are already blogging and we've got multiple pingbacks inbound! If we don't cross-site script the XML to a recursive realtime JSON feed in the next thirty seconds we'll 404 the memebases! ALL OF THEM!
It doesn't matter.
All your base are belong to us.
Especially base-64.
I believe he used to be some kind of sweet little cuddly polar bear that got quite a bit of attention, and though he's all grown up now I don't think any of them have written books before, so it's a big deal.
Well, if you follow the the "logic" of original complaint: No matter how far back you get, there's a 3 at the same place in all three numbers, and that adds to 9. That 9 isn't going to get a 1 added to it and start a domino effect to magically make it change.:-)
That's an interesting and appealing point, but intuitively it seems to me like looking at the problem from the wrong direction (left to right rather than right to left). Don't know what to make of it, though.
Which is *exactly the same as the original complaint about 0.999... not being 1*. That's the grandparent's point. One cannot complain about the equality of 0.999... to 1, and at the same time claim that 3*0.3333... is obviously 1.
Merit raises at most places (If they're even doing them, my company has frozen them this year) are 2% for reasonable performance and top out at 4% for exceptional performance. Changing jobs can easily net you a 20% raise. Often more. That's 5 years worth of merit raises (assuming you are exceptional, your boss isn't trying to save a few bucks on labor, and your company hasn't frozen merit raises).
Nitpicking, but not quite - compound interest means that a 20% raise every five years is not as good as 5 annual 4% raises calculated once a year - that's about 22%:)
The new hire is either an exceptional jewel of a programmer or the management is smoking something.
Or the company really, REALLY needs that skill set, NOW, and the only way to do it is to pay someone more than they should given the existing structure. Management may not have thought the cost-benefit analysis through enough (they often forget "soft" repercussions, like really pissing off everyone else in the company), but that does not mean there's not a valid reason for the hire.
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Hey DF! Yeah, definitely :-). You won't see me on GD.net much these days, too much other stuff going on. Are you still involved with game development?
It's a simple fact that people are dumb.
It doesn't have to be memorable. It has to be profitable.
I'm happy with my Nokia 1661. The only special features are a flashlight (quite useful) and FM radio reception (never ever use it). No camera, no WiFi, no Bluetooth. Pay €40, pop in a sim card, and go. Battery life of about a week, and it phones and texts.
Oh, and I get to wittily retort to iPhone users that I could buy 15 of these phones for the cost of their phone, and I can't even "hold it wrong"!
The figure of $3.99 was arrived at through bistromath.
No. You're holding it wrong.
Of-course there is an alternative, like in European countries: you end up with only large companies, they all are heavily subsidized and regulated, but your choices of employment are diminished and your ability to open your own business are extremely limited. This eventually leads to less and less economic activity and higher and higher levels of unemployment and reliance on government.
I live and work in a small European country in a small European company that is not heavily subsidized, and only heavily regulated because we work in the medical industry where that sort of thing is par for the course. Many of the people I know are self-employed, and it's not hard by any means.
I see the EU take a lot more anti-monopolistic action than the USA too, though that is of course biased by European media reporting on it.
Checking you on FB etc. You are there? Forget it. I am NOT hiring you.
Have fun working alone.
How can you compare 1 type of handset (the iPhone) with about a THOUSAND different handsets from different manufacturers running Android?
You mean like the FA is doing with the iPad vs. all Android tablets?
I tried to get chicks to dig my watch, but they balked when I handed them the shovel :(
Now with 0% calories!
First post!
I raise you one box that doesn't actually have any components inside it. Totally secure, it can't even be hacked with physical access to the machine!
In other words, it may work for you, but for the vast majority of people a (secure) computer that's not attached to the network is about as useful as a bicycle is to a fish.
datamine the cyber-zeigeist
But sir - the twitterati are already blogging and we've got multiple pingbacks inbound! If we don't cross-site script the XML to a recursive realtime JSON feed in the next thirty seconds we'll 404 the memebases! ALL OF THEM!
It doesn't matter.
All your base are belong to us.
Especially base-64.
I must be slipping, since it took me at least three re-reads to figure out why you were replying to my post with that.
I obviously forgot that the decline of pirates clearly correlates to global warming.
I believe he used to be some kind of sweet little cuddly polar bear that got quite a bit of attention, and though he's all grown up now I don't think any of them have written books before, so it's a big deal.
Approximately -42.
I'm rooting for Pastafarian.
Matrix 4: Spaghetti Code.
I'd go one further, and say that even if a slashdotter managed to have sex with Natalie Portman, she would still not be satisfied. Hence P != NP.
That's an interesting and appealing point, but intuitively it seems to me like looking at the problem from the wrong direction (left to right rather than right to left). Don't know what to make of it, though.
Which is *exactly the same as the original complaint about 0.999... not being 1*. That's the grandparent's point. One cannot complain about the equality of 0.999... to 1, and at the same time claim that 3*0.3333... is obviously 1.
Henry.
This is not the raise you're looking for.
Merit raises at most places (If they're even doing them, my company has frozen them this year) are 2% for reasonable performance and top out at 4% for exceptional performance. Changing jobs can easily net you a 20% raise. Often more. That's 5 years worth of merit raises (assuming you are exceptional, your boss isn't trying to save a few bucks on labor, and your company hasn't frozen merit raises).
Nitpicking, but not quite - compound interest means that a 20% raise every five years is not as good as 5 annual 4% raises calculated once a year - that's about 22% :)
You have about as much chance of getting people to stop using that as you do of getting them to stop saying 'boxen'.
A case can be made for either. Not everybody agrees with you. Get over it.
Meh.
I could care less.
The new hire is either an exceptional jewel of a programmer or the management is smoking something.
Or the company really, REALLY needs that skill set, NOW, and the only way to do it is to pay someone more than they should given the existing structure. Management may not have thought the cost-benefit analysis through enough (they often forget "soft" repercussions, like really pissing off everyone else in the company), but that does not mean there's not a valid reason for the hire.