Kids will be kids. Not listening to the wise advice from their adults. Full of hormones where they are wanting to find a mate, with society saying it is good to wait, sit down study, but every instinct in your body is saying now.
Or younger kids, who are full of energy with growing bodies that wants to be tested and pushed, being locked indoors, because it is dangerous out there because some random guy is just out there ready to kidnap kids. Or just locked in a classroom desk without and being punished for any outburst of energy.
The problem is a lot of people can do it. They were just told that going past the yellow line, is bad and you should get in trouble. I am sure much of your help desk users are not from pure stupidity but from people taking that one step beyond what they were told to do.
Having to support the system, it gets crazy to ask the person to look for the X some where. Yes, in 2017 some people just don't know how to close a window.
Here is the thing about computers and automation. They do not make your lives easier, they make them more difficult. Computers and robots are taking away the easy jobs, leaving the hard jobs, that requires more complex thinking, creativity and problem solving skills, and a wider range of movement. Where every day your job will be different.
We cannot try to slow this down (AKA America First), we cannot really ignore the problem (AKA basic income). However there needs to be an effort to get people onto the fact that they need to change, because people can change faster then a computer can. This includes Training the employees, and changing businesses to allow people who do not have the experience to get in and build the experience.
I never implied that they were. However before jumping on the Union is great bandwagon, you should really be careful of the motivations of the parties involved. Unions have also crippled institutions and caused overall worse working conditions as well. If you are going to unionize, you will need to make sure your worker group keeps them in check as well, and not proudly wave the Union flag.
This is normally the problem I have with the financial people. Tesla was building up the cash reserves just for this case to put it towards production. However this money saved was on a previous reporting quarter so for this quarter the numbers are in the Red, and the people who read just the quarterly data, will go into a panic.
So for the most part the company is punished for running their business responsibility.
Unions are not the saviors of the middle class who will only meddle with the companies affairs only when there is a grave mistreatment of workers.
Unions number one goal is to keep the union going and expanding due paying members. That is their core motivation. This alone isn't bad as a union can choose to achieve this goal by offering services that will make the workers to want to stay with the union. However most of them will often do back deal jobs to keep their numbers up. Such as laying off the older higher paid workers to bring in the cheaper newer workers. Lay off old joe who makes 6 figures and hire 2 kid bills who will be paid half as much. That way you get 2 due paying members with a loss of one. While old joe has been a company man for over 30 years and laying him off has completely screwed his life.
The Bay Area climate is a suggestive advantage. As a north eastern myself I actually like having distinct seasons Hot Summers, Colorful fall, Snow Covered WInters, and Warm Springs. Going to areas it helps separate the year and allows you to very your life outside of work.
Yea Millenials... For the most part it isn't that they found a new discovery, it is just with the Antenna they can watch local show, and use streaming services for the rest.
The way it was written made it seem like it was really a new thing... However there are few things about the newer technology that we should realize. 1. Most New TVs do not come built in with an Antenna. 2. Old TVs with Antenna normally will not support our current digital standards. Both 1 and 2 means the person will need to make a conscious decision to go with an Antenna. Vs. the good old day which it was the default state of having a TV. 3. Late Boomers and Early Gen-X who birth the Millennials with their wonderful middle class life style and salaries and cost of living mostly designed for the middle class, could afford Cable TV so their kids grew up with Cable TV as the normal for life. 4. These Millenials are starting to move out of their parents house as the economy is getting better and college debts are getting paid. So they getting their own place, and will need to get their own TV's and other things, thus making a decision on what to use. 5. Cable TV has gown down the tubes. (No pun attended) BBC America Plays mostly Star Trek, and Doctor Who. Lifetime keeps on playing My 600 lbs life... All the channels seems to be stuck on a binge watch loop, which I don't want on my broadcast TV, that is what streaming is for. I want to see variety, so if I am board I can channel surf and find something new. Back in the older days, Cable TV had variety, BBC America played British Shows. Discover had educational content. History channel had historical documentaries..... 6. Local Channels are still competitive. Being the Cable stations stink, the Local Channels are still producing new content. So you get the channels you want to view over the Antenna.
This story isn't how Millenials are discovering the Antenna, but are choosing it over the alternatives.
Most Apps are not really made by professional software developers. It reminds me back in the early desktop era, where most applications were made by people who had their own problem to solve. Without actual practice in coding, they wrote a program to do what was needed, but without much planning or for-site. Being these computers did one thing at a time, if it took 0.5 second vs 0.01 second wasn't a big deal, because it didn't affect other systems. So if you wanted a pause you can figure out the speed of your cpu and just loop x thousand of times. Moved to a multi-tasking system, that is great way to kill your jobs.
Now companies are trying to race to Device Apps. But except for bringing in the old developers and get them to learn the new software, they hire flashy new App developers, who have Objective C and Swift and all the buzzword systems on their resumes, but not people with experience with coding, and for these new devices, which are relativity low powered, the talent to think about system resources.
How many of these images are really needed? And how many of the remaining images could be done with some simple vector graphics calculations? Back in the old days, the customer wanted a shadow effect on a table border to make it stick out. At the time CSS didn't have shadow ability. So I had 5 small png TopRight 5x5, Right 5x1, BottomRight 5x5, Bottom 1x5, BottomLeft 5x5. Then I just stretched the images in the right spot to create the effect. during this time people were still using dial-up modems, so we needed to keep download size small while trying to keep the product visually appealing. A lot of places that I see now, if they didn't choose to use the CSS or didn't know how, I just see huge pictures to do the place of a small picture used smartly.
While I am not a Trump supporter, the things I hoped from his presidency, was some real attempt to upgrade our infrastructure. Not an infrastructure week science fair.
I wouldn't say so... However it more or less started as a way to offset your cost while commuting with a tool to show who needs a ride. However their business model has changed, for a tech company to a Taxi company. The technology developed, is just to keep the business running.
There are still a lot of good startup opportunities. The problem is starting a business from nothing is harder now. It is more complex then living off noodles for a year, but trying to make enough with your second job to survive while having enough time to make your own business is difficult. Partially due to Minimum wage not matching what is needed to survive in given areas. Then there is the fact college students are under heavy debt, that they are now asked to pay back, until their credit is good enough for a business loan.
It isn't the opportunities, but the barrier of entry has gotten higher... Unless you are just going to write apps, and post them on the device store, and hope it will be a hit.
There are a lot of stories about products that seem so far fetch that made it in spite the general consensus.
If they figured the Personal Computer would be a big Hit, HP wouldn't had let Apple start its own company. But because they figured there was no real money in it they allow Woz the rights to use the technology.
Like a lot of business incubator locations. There is a point where it is no longer the home of fancy startups and the home of the boring business. The cost of living is so high in Silicon Valley, it is too expensive to start a company there. However you can start a company in the newer business incubators say in Upstate NY, or in a rural town trying to attract technology firms. The investors are following the new businesses, so a small business that can pay the rent for their business and their living for less than a $2000 a month. While selling products at the same price as the more expensive locations.
Also the 1990 New Economy that sparked Silicon Valley, had been proven a great failure. So while technology is hot again, it is far more reserved, and will not classify a pet food store as a tech company because it sells its product on the internet at a loss.
I know it is nice to show a bunch of students with laptops, it makes it look all hi-tech and stuff. However the educational benefits of having a computer for many classes is mostly minor.
The only benefit I can see is if they use All digital contents and replace text books. So students are not caring around 20 lbs of books, and the cost per media is closer to $50 per student vs $150 per student.
Well just as long as Google stays responsible on their adds then I am good with it. The problem I always had with adds on the internet ever sense 1994 were adds that just got overly aggressive. The adds help pay for the content people want to see, however they shouldn't prevent people from being able to access the content, or just disrespectful to the cost of bandwidth, and time on the peoples devices.
We use to had popup windows, message box loops, full screen thick box adds, adds that use a ton of resources, that slows your pc to a crawl. Adds that have malware attachments to them....
In short if we stuck with the small banner add I wouldn't have that much issues with them.
We normally have about 25% who will support that party no matter what. 20% will support that one party unless a particular line had been crossed. 10% Are in the middle, can support one side or the other depending on how they feel at the time. Then 20% will support the other party until they have crossed some line, and 25% will support the other party no matter what.
Elections are normally won, by that 10% of moderates. During the past election, Watching the polling directions, Trump was normally below Clinton, except for a few spikes around the emails being in the news. Right before the elections the emails had resurfaced, causing the swing. Chances are if the elections happens a few weeks later it would be a different result.
The specific phone has a specific unique platform. iOS vs. Android. If the Android people are saying hey compare our newest and greatest to your Newest and greatest. From the article, they used the Samsung S8 Camera, which is in general the same market of the iPhones. So it is mostly a fair comparison.
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Kids will be kids.
Not listening to the wise advice from their adults. Full of hormones where they are wanting to find a mate, with society saying it is good to wait, sit down study, but every instinct in your body is saying now.
Or younger kids, who are full of energy with growing bodies that wants to be tested and pushed, being locked indoors, because it is dangerous out there because some random guy is just out there ready to kidnap kids. Or just locked in a classroom desk without and being punished for any outburst of energy.
The problem is a lot of people can do it. They were just told that going past the yellow line, is bad and you should get in trouble. I am sure much of your help desk users are not from pure stupidity but from people taking that one step beyond what they were told to do.
I say the question is Wrong.
Do you want the buttons where Microsoft Windows has them
Do you want the buttons where Apple OSX has them
Having to support the system, it gets crazy to ask the person to look for the X some where. Yes, in 2017 some people just don't know how to close a window.
Old XKCD https://xkcd.com/1172/
Here is the thing about computers and automation. They do not make your lives easier, they make them more difficult. Computers and robots are taking away the easy jobs, leaving the hard jobs, that requires more complex thinking, creativity and problem solving skills, and a wider range of movement. Where every day your job will be different.
We cannot try to slow this down (AKA America First), we cannot really ignore the problem (AKA basic income). However there needs to be an effort to get people onto the fact that they need to change, because people can change faster then a computer can. This includes Training the employees, and changing businesses to allow people who do not have the experience to get in and build the experience.
The value of everything is subjective.
If people want it then it worth more products that people don't want.
I never implied that they were. However before jumping on the Union is great bandwagon, you should really be careful of the motivations of the parties involved. Unions have also crippled institutions and caused overall worse working conditions as well. If you are going to unionize, you will need to make sure your worker group keeps them in check as well, and not proudly wave the Union flag.
This is normally the problem I have with the financial people. Tesla was building up the cash reserves just for this case to put it towards production. However this money saved was on a previous reporting quarter so for this quarter the numbers are in the Red, and the people who read just the quarterly data, will go into a panic.
So for the most part the company is punished for running their business responsibility.
Unions are not the saviors of the middle class who will only meddle with the companies affairs only when there is a grave mistreatment of workers.
Unions number one goal is to keep the union going and expanding due paying members. That is their core motivation.
This alone isn't bad as a union can choose to achieve this goal by offering services that will make the workers to want to stay with the union. However most of them will often do back deal jobs to keep their numbers up. Such as laying off the older higher paid workers to bring in the cheaper newer workers. Lay off old joe who makes 6 figures and hire 2 kid bills who will be paid half as much. That way you get 2 due paying members with a loss of one. While old joe has been a company man for over 30 years and laying him off has completely screwed his life.
The Bay Area climate is a suggestive advantage. As a north eastern myself I actually like having distinct seasons Hot Summers, Colorful fall, Snow Covered WInters, and Warm Springs. Going to areas it helps separate the year and allows you to very your life outside of work.
Yea Millenials... For the most part it isn't that they found a new discovery, it is just with the Antenna they can watch local show, and use streaming services for the rest.
The way it was written made it seem like it was really a new thing... However there are few things about the newer technology that we should realize.
1. Most New TVs do not come built in with an Antenna.
2. Old TVs with Antenna normally will not support our current digital standards.
Both 1 and 2 means the person will need to make a conscious decision to go with an Antenna. Vs. the good old day which it was the default state of having a TV.
3. Late Boomers and Early Gen-X who birth the Millennials with their wonderful middle class life style and salaries and cost of living mostly designed for the middle class, could afford Cable TV so their kids grew up with Cable TV as the normal for life.
4. These Millenials are starting to move out of their parents house as the economy is getting better and college debts are getting paid. So they getting their own place, and will need to get their own TV's and other things, thus making a decision on what to use.
5. Cable TV has gown down the tubes. (No pun attended) BBC America Plays mostly Star Trek, and Doctor Who. Lifetime keeps on playing My 600 lbs life... All the channels seems to be stuck on a binge watch loop, which I don't want on my broadcast TV, that is what streaming is for. I want to see variety, so if I am board I can channel surf and find something new. Back in the older days, Cable TV had variety, BBC America played British Shows. Discover had educational content. History channel had historical documentaries.....
6. Local Channels are still competitive. Being the Cable stations stink, the Local Channels are still producing new content. So you get the channels you want to view over the Antenna.
This story isn't how Millenials are discovering the Antenna, but are choosing it over the alternatives.
Yep, I will dedicate years of my life analysis the source code before I use the app. I might as well write it myself.
Most Apps are not really made by professional software developers. It reminds me back in the early desktop era, where most applications were made by people who had their own problem to solve. Without actual practice in coding, they wrote a program to do what was needed, but without much planning or for-site. Being these computers did one thing at a time, if it took 0.5 second vs 0.01 second wasn't a big deal, because it didn't affect other systems. So if you wanted a pause you can figure out the speed of your cpu and just loop x thousand of times. Moved to a multi-tasking system, that is great way to kill your jobs.
Now companies are trying to race to Device Apps. But except for bringing in the old developers and get them to learn the new software, they hire flashy new App developers, who have Objective C and Swift and all the buzzword systems on their resumes, but not people with experience with coding, and for these new devices, which are relativity low powered, the talent to think about system resources.
How many of these images are really needed? And how many of the remaining images could be done with some simple vector graphics calculations?
Back in the old days, the customer wanted a shadow effect on a table border to make it stick out. At the time CSS didn't have shadow ability. So I had 5 small png
TopRight 5x5, Right 5x1, BottomRight 5x5, Bottom 1x5, BottomLeft 5x5. Then I just stretched the images in the right spot to create the effect. during this time people were still using dial-up modems, so we needed to keep download size small while trying to keep the product visually appealing.
A lot of places that I see now, if they didn't choose to use the CSS or didn't know how, I just see huge pictures to do the place of a small picture used smartly.
While I am not a Trump supporter, the things I hoped from his presidency, was some real attempt to upgrade our infrastructure. Not an infrastructure week science fair.
I wouldn't say so...
However it more or less started as a way to offset your cost while commuting with a tool to show who needs a ride. However their business model has changed, for a tech company to a Taxi company. The technology developed, is just to keep the business running.
There are still a lot of good startup opportunities. The problem is starting a business from nothing is harder now. It is more complex then living off noodles for a year, but trying to make enough with your second job to survive while having enough time to make your own business is difficult. Partially due to Minimum wage not matching what is needed to survive in given areas. Then there is the fact college students are under heavy debt, that they are now asked to pay back, until their credit is good enough for a business loan.
It isn't the opportunities, but the barrier of entry has gotten higher... Unless you are just going to write apps, and post them on the device store, and hope it will be a hit.
There are a lot of stories about products that seem so far fetch that made it in spite the general consensus.
If they figured the Personal Computer would be a big Hit, HP wouldn't had let Apple start its own company. But because they figured there was no real money in it they allow Woz the rights to use the technology.
Well being the market is growing, a lot of investors will invest in it... However investing in a startup could have great rewards if a success.
Like a lot of business incubator locations. There is a point where it is no longer the home of fancy startups and the home of the boring business. The cost of living is so high in Silicon Valley, it is too expensive to start a company there. However you can start a company in the newer business incubators say in Upstate NY, or in a rural town trying to attract technology firms.
The investors are following the new businesses, so a small business that can pay the rent for their business and their living for less than a $2000 a month. While selling products at the same price as the more expensive locations.
Also the 1990 New Economy that sparked Silicon Valley, had been proven a great failure. So while technology is hot again, it is far more reserved, and will not classify a pet food store as a tech company because it sells its product on the internet at a loss.
I know it is nice to show a bunch of students with laptops, it makes it look all hi-tech and stuff. However the educational benefits of having a computer for many classes is mostly minor.
The only benefit I can see is if they use All digital contents and replace text books. So students are not caring around 20 lbs of books, and the cost per media is closer to $50 per student vs $150 per student.
Well just as long as Google stays responsible on their adds then I am good with it.
The problem I always had with adds on the internet ever sense 1994 were adds that just got overly aggressive. The adds help pay for the content people want to see, however they shouldn't prevent people from being able to access the content, or just disrespectful to the cost of bandwidth, and time on the peoples devices.
We use to had popup windows, message box loops, full screen thick box adds, adds that use a ton of resources, that slows your pc to a crawl. Adds that have malware attachments to them....
In short if we stuck with the small banner add I wouldn't have that much issues with them.
We normally have about 25% who will support that party no matter what. 20% will support that one party unless a particular line had been crossed. 10% Are in the middle, can support one side or the other depending on how they feel at the time. Then 20% will support the other party until they have crossed some line, and 25% will support the other party no matter what.
Elections are normally won, by that 10% of moderates.
During the past election, Watching the polling directions, Trump was normally below Clinton, except for a few spikes around the emails being in the news. Right before the elections the emails had resurfaced, causing the swing. Chances are if the elections happens a few weeks later it would be a different result.
The specific phone has a specific unique platform. iOS vs. Android. If the Android people are saying hey compare our newest and greatest to your Newest and greatest. From the article, they used the Samsung S8 Camera, which is in general the same market of the iPhones. So it is mostly a fair comparison.