Contractors will normally get the higher pay though. So as an employee I can get paid $50 an hour for my services, plus the company will pay an other $50 an hour to cover non salary expenses. From Benefits to your supplied laptop and the property used for your office/cube. So that $100k job for a salary employee cost the company $200k to keep you there. As a contractor you may charge $250 an hour for the services, So if you are working for a customer full time that is $500k a year, however this extra money means you will not get a lot of the benefits, because you are already costing the company more money. You will be moved to a cube where they keep spare parts if no other spots are available, even if you job is a higher level work then they guy who took the cube you are using. Because the company needs to pay for the property that is using the cube space. And the employee who is there for a cost savings over you will get preference because they in general bring better value.
Also as a contractor this extra pay is what you need to cover things like health care, time off for a vacation, and being a contractor you may not always have full time work, so the extra costs covers your expenses while you are hunting for a new customer.
Now this for self employed contractors. If you ware working for a consulting/contracting firm. Then these benefits should be provided by the firm you are working with. Because that $250 an hour isn't all going to your pocket 60% (or more) may go right to the firm eating away a lot of the money you need to support yourself, so the firm should be offering some benefits Such as health insurance, retirement and cover vacation time which the larger organization can probably get a better deal then you as a self employed person can get.
During NN I have been receiving regular speed boosts, and I have been tracking my bandwidth over the past 20 years of me buying internet. And for the most part the speed/price has trended equally threw Clinton/Bush/Obama.
The jump from 60 to 100 mbs was a big jump, and I expect it to stick there for a while.
But the sudden deceleration at a low speed will hurt you less. The delta of Speed start to speed end is what hurts. If you have a slow deceleration you may feel the effect but cause no harm.
Wow so stupid. 1. I understand the difference between Climate Change and weather change. Also knowing we have cold spells and warm spells. However navigating the data shows the average climate is getting warmer. 2. The data is comparing average of orchards output of Apple from 1920 - 1980 then trending them with the rate of change of the number of orchards. Using both sets of data we can see if apple consumption is rising or falling. 3. One of the ways this is measures is with core samples that spans many thousands of years, not hundreds.
I don't think it is obsolesce business model, but the shift to mobile systems. While 2006 is pushing it, 2012 is a better time. But with most software being designed to run systems smaller then the CPU of the systems of these times. There has been a lot of work, shrinking down the bloat in the software so it will work on mobile devices or push a lot of the work to the cloud.
I normally prefer using the self checkout for small orders. Mostly not having to wait as long in line, and if I don't feel like getting in an conversation.
Well if you are assume adoption of a technology makes you some sort of shill, it does make it sound bad. They are trade off in nearly any technology. But normally we would agree the worse part of the shopping experience is having to wait in line to purchase it.
You don't necessarily need to be fan of the company, to want technology to better manage your shopping experience.
Most people don't care if it is Amazon Google Apple or Microsoft that is offering the positive experience, it is just the experience they want.
Recently after the Removing Net Neutrality decision was made (Before it went into law) Spectrum bumped its speed from 60mbs to 100mbs. And now after the law went into effect Comcast is stopping its throttling.
I feel like these companies realize how much we are afraid of ending Net Neutrality, so they are compensating (at the moment) to show how much better life is with out it. ( like how an authoritarian dictator after getting in power, can use his power to force the trains to run on time, to show the public how much life is better with him in power ). Making the public more comfortable about the process only to turn the screws on them slowly later on, when their power has been solidified.
It really depends on the work that you do. Some CAD Designs require more power then others. If you are using CAD to design a CPU vs CAD to design a motherboard. or CAD to design a Laptop. There are different resource requirements, just because the complexity is different.
I don't do much CAD but I do a lot of Database development. Some databases would work fine with systems with under a gig of free ram. Others I really want a Terabyte of RAM. It depends on what I am trying to do with the data, how fast I need to do it, and how many people will be trying to access it.
640k is actually a lot of storage, and enough for most (even modern) application to run their core logic. What is filling most of the RAM today is things like pictures, large data sets prefetched data. A lot of the stuff in active RAM may never be used in the application. Being that Unicode data for hello world uses two bytes for character in generals makes strings 50% inefficient.
For the time where screen resolutions were 320x200 4 color, getting data from a disk took minutes. 640k was enough for anyone. But that was for the programs of the time.
The ThinkPad P series are more of a mobile workstation then a laptop or a notebook computer. I can use up 128 gigs of RAM easily. I do so at work all the time, (Normally for the first pass proof of concept, then I optimize it down). With million record databases trying to forecast future probabilities, so to make a business decision on to hire more, or find problems to fix.
I normally have a server for this that I will remote connect to with my laptop. But If I/my place of work could afford a laptop like that, I would happily max the sucker out.
It some ways it is a good plan. Consoles and PCs with different system requirements, available controllers and degrees of hackability means a rather unfair game especially where it is twitch type of game where reflexes are key. Keyboard PC Gamer get high precision, and a lot of options with the key presses, but it may not be as fast as with an analog control for such a game, having distant sniping being an advantage, vs. perhaps faster close range combat on a console.
The switch which is meant to play on a tiny screen, compared to normal console which are on big screens, or medium screens on a PC, brings in other game balance questions.
Heck it is better then some of the stuff that has been popping up. At least it is news for nerds. Heck people debating cartoon characters is the stereotypical nerd.
Besides why does all the news need to be hard news, why can't we discuss fun topics as well.
Luigi is the second player Mario Wario was suppose to be the Anti-Mario Waluigi is just the second player to the Anti-Mario character. So he is the Anti-Luigi
The real issue was Wario. Being an Anti-Mario but not an Evil Villain just an greedy version Mario, kinda of an Anti-Hero. In terms of story that is a fun angle. So it isn't an opposite of Mario, but a twisted version of him. So compared to Mario, Luigi has little in terms of personality so trying to make a twisted version of him to complement Wario just didn't work. It is just a taller Wario.
"The USA has some of the cleanest air and water in the world. "
Had some of the cleanest air and water in the world.
I live in area where the water supply for miles has been polluted from PFOA from lazy Environmental enforcement, because of jobs. While after the watersupply was poisoned. The local community is nearly collapsed, because no one want to move to the community, and people can't sell their homes to move out.
It will depend. If the company that makes the product is also the ones that ship it, then they are responsible for not properly caring for their product in transit.
I could make a top quality wooden sculpture. But if I decided to ship it in a box of nails and the customer gets it, they will be rightfully annoyed at my product.
The first sentence in my argument "I am not saying there are bad companies that produce crap." If they are overselling (lying about) their product and services and giving misleading information then yes they should be responsible for customer backlash, because they are scamming people.
But if that Cheap Battery held 2000mAh but worked within reason for 2 years. While the one that costs twice as much held the 2000mAh for 4 years. And both were guaranteed for 2 years. You shouldn't fault the Cheap maker because you got what they were selling and promising, while the more expensive brand undersold it quality.
Garbage bags, Pet waste (pooper picker) bags. Which are actually much better because they won't have a random hole in it, and they are designed to hold biomater.
Plastic Grocery bags. For an average shopping experience you will get 7 or 8 a normal week. and 10 - 12 for a large shopping week. So you will normally collect more bags then most people will normally reuse. Specialty bags, while still will pollute are often much smaller, because they are designed to hold waste for a day, vs. Food for a week.
I actually like reusable bags. They are often bigger (Can hold more stuff), Cloth handles so they are not cutting into your hand for heavy loads. Are in shapes of rectangles so they are easier to stack in your car. The only issue is hygiene, I still ask to have my meat wrapped in plastic. and occasionally will need to wash the bags with soap and water.
I am not saying there are bad companies that produce crap. But if you look at Amazon bad reviews on products most of them are from people who got a product to solve a problem that there was no advertising to say it was even remotely going to solve. This $400 dell laptop runs the most modern games kinda choppy. It is utter crap compared to my $3000 desktop system I made last year.
Or the people don’t understand the difference between a professional product vs a home product. Your linksys home router vs a Cisco switch for a data center. The home router is orders of magnitude cheaper and it has more features. Or people getting an expensive camera with lenses that do not autofocus. For most average picture taker your phone will get better pictures. But for the professional photographer they can get real art from this complex phone.
People often will get the cheapest crap they can find expecting it to work like the premium version, or pay top dollar for an item that is meant for professionals that require sill and training to use.
Being after leaving the Paris Accord, the US still has to oblige its promises until 2020. Also being the political nature, most companies would be an absolute idiot to go in full pollution mode, only to have the rules put back in the next 3-7 years. Regulations is rarely a problem for companies, it is the change of regulations. If these companies begin a process of lowering their carbon. They will probably continue on, if the rules are not set back, then they can breath a sigh of relief if their investment doesn't meet target. But if it goes back, they don't have to start over from scratch again.
Energy storage technologies are about increasing efficiencies of power generation. So power companies are paying less in fuel for power that is just wasted.
Being that we are in a two party system (which I do not like) the ability to make an intelligent well informed voting decision is often not possible. It normally comes down to. Is my life better or worse with this guy in office. If it is worse, then I vote against them, if it better then I vote for them.
1) Knowing what the current issues are is the responsibility of the person who is running, not the voter. I have my own issues, and the person running for office, will be willing to address them, or not address them. I may have many issues, where different people will and will not address a set of them. So I need to figure what is more important to me to vote.
2) Policy may not be a priority for the voter. Often the policy difference and change have little or no real effect, or their changes will balance themselves out. Say for example Free Market forces prevent companies from producing too crappy of a product, vs regulation telling the company not to produce a crappy product. Either way companies are not creating a crappy product. The difference comes down to either companies feeling the freedom to explore the idea that created the crappy product in the future to try something else, vs. giving the consumers comfort knowing that such crappy product will not be on the market.
2a) While I agree that would pick who we feel is most qualified, but that is still a judgement call. While I found Trump campaign to be akin to a Hack Used Car Salesman, and his lack of depth in the issue made me feel that is unqualified to be president. Others see his success alone as a strong qualify factor. And being a leader of a large organization makes him more qualified then a career politicians who just do the same thing over again.
3) I agree that there needs to be truth and unbiased fact checking. But with the current nature we have bias "news" media calling the opposing side as lairs. Making it difficult to try to make an informed decision. However it will come down to which lies we believe or just don't care about.
However the big issue with OpenBSD is that it isn't designed well for general computing that we do on our PC's. Being everything that is potentially dangerous is closed and/or locked down. It means when ever we need to do something new, we need to consciously turn off a security feature. While great for hosting and servers where such rigor should be the norm. For your PC it can get annoying rather quickly.
It would depend on the business model of the company. Luxury/Sports car makers, will be more likely to do self imposed recalls, because their brand image is based on quality and perception. If they can fix a problem before it becomes an issue, then most likely the customer will not think poorly of the product, and when they get a new one, they will more likely go with the same company again.
If you are getting a more budget practical car, having a hinge fall of, or a wobbly sun-visor isn't a safety issue, and chances are the customer will not be loyal to that brand as much as the luxury makers. Sure my last two cars were Toyota's however there isn't anything wrong with my next car being a Honda, or some other brand. Being that I expect a particular build quality, which isn't fine tuned, but just acceptable and reliable.
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Contractors will normally get the higher pay though.
So as an employee I can get paid $50 an hour for my services, plus the company will pay an other $50 an hour to cover non salary expenses. From Benefits to your supplied laptop and the property used for your office/cube. So that $100k job for a salary employee cost the company $200k to keep you there.
As a contractor you may charge $250 an hour for the services, So if you are working for a customer full time that is $500k a year, however this extra money means you will not get a lot of the benefits, because you are already costing the company more money. You will be moved to a cube where they keep spare parts if no other spots are available, even if you job is a higher level work then they guy who took the cube you are using. Because the company needs to pay for the property that is using the cube space. And the employee who is there for a cost savings over you will get preference because they in general bring better value.
Also as a contractor this extra pay is what you need to cover things like health care, time off for a vacation, and being a contractor you may not always have full time work, so the extra costs covers your expenses while you are hunting for a new customer.
Now this for self employed contractors. If you ware working for a consulting/contracting firm. Then these benefits should be provided by the firm you are working with. Because that $250 an hour isn't all going to your pocket 60% (or more) may go right to the firm eating away a lot of the money you need to support yourself, so the firm should be offering some benefits Such as health insurance, retirement and cover vacation time which the larger organization can probably get a better deal then you as a self employed person can get.
During NN I have been receiving regular speed boosts, and I have been tracking my bandwidth over the past 20 years of me buying internet. And for the most part the speed/price has trended equally threw Clinton/Bush/Obama.
The jump from 60 to 100 mbs was a big jump, and I expect it to stick there for a while.
But the sudden deceleration at a low speed will hurt you less.
The delta of Speed start to speed end is what hurts.
If you have a slow deceleration you may feel the effect but cause no harm.
Wow so stupid.
1. I understand the difference between Climate Change and weather change. Also knowing we have cold spells and warm spells. However navigating the data shows the average climate is getting warmer.
2. The data is comparing average of orchards output of Apple from 1920 - 1980 then trending them with the rate of change of the number of orchards. Using both sets of data we can see if apple consumption is rising or falling.
3. One of the ways this is measures is with core samples that spans many thousands of years, not hundreds.
I don't think it is obsolesce business model, but the shift to mobile systems. While 2006 is pushing it, 2012 is a better time. But with most software being designed to run systems smaller then the CPU of the systems of these times. There has been a lot of work, shrinking down the bloat in the software so it will work on mobile devices or push a lot of the work to the cloud.
The Rate of global warming is the biggest issue. Just like falling it is your rate of speed that you hit the ground is what will kill you.
The world isn't ever "Normal" it is always in flux, but if we change it too much a lot of things can die.
I normally prefer using the self checkout for small orders. Mostly not having to wait as long in line, and if I don't feel like getting in an conversation.
Well if you are assume adoption of a technology makes you some sort of shill, it does make it sound bad.
They are trade off in nearly any technology. But normally we would agree the worse part of the shopping experience is having to wait in line to purchase it.
You don't necessarily need to be fan of the company, to want technology to better manage your shopping experience.
Most people don't care if it is Amazon Google Apple or Microsoft that is offering the positive experience, it is just the experience they want.
Recently after the Removing Net Neutrality decision was made (Before it went into law) Spectrum bumped its speed from 60mbs to 100mbs. And now after the law went into effect Comcast is stopping its throttling.
I feel like these companies realize how much we are afraid of ending Net Neutrality, so they are compensating (at the moment) to show how much better life is with out it. ( like how an authoritarian dictator after getting in power, can use his power to force the trains to run on time, to show the public how much life is better with him in power ). Making the public more comfortable about the process only to turn the screws on them slowly later on, when their power has been solidified.
It really depends on the work that you do.
Some CAD Designs require more power then others. If you are using CAD to design a CPU vs CAD to design a motherboard. or CAD to design a Laptop. There are different resource requirements, just because the complexity is different.
I don't do much CAD but I do a lot of Database development. Some databases would work fine with systems with under a gig of free ram. Others I really want a Terabyte of RAM. It depends on what I am trying to do with the data, how fast I need to do it, and how many people will be trying to access it.
640k is actually a lot of storage, and enough for most (even modern) application to run their core logic. What is filling most of the RAM today is things like pictures, large data sets prefetched data. A lot of the stuff in active RAM may never be used in the application. Being that Unicode data for hello world uses two bytes for character in generals makes strings 50% inefficient.
For the time where screen resolutions were 320x200 4 color, getting data from a disk took minutes. 640k was enough for anyone. But that was for the programs of the time.
The ThinkPad P series are more of a mobile workstation then a laptop or a notebook computer.
I can use up 128 gigs of RAM easily. I do so at work all the time, (Normally for the first pass proof of concept, then I optimize it down).
With million record databases trying to forecast future probabilities, so to make a business decision on to hire more, or find problems to fix.
I normally have a server for this that I will remote connect to with my laptop. But If I/my place of work could afford a laptop like that, I would happily max the sucker out.
It some ways it is a good plan.
Consoles and PCs with different system requirements, available controllers and degrees of hackability means a rather unfair game especially where it is twitch type of game where reflexes are key.
Keyboard PC Gamer get high precision, and a lot of options with the key presses, but it may not be as fast as with an analog control for such a game, having distant sniping being an advantage, vs. perhaps faster close range combat on a console.
The switch which is meant to play on a tiny screen, compared to normal console which are on big screens, or medium screens on a PC, brings in other game balance questions.
Heck it is better then some of the stuff that has been popping up. At least it is news for nerds. Heck people debating cartoon characters is the stereotypical nerd.
Besides why does all the news need to be hard news, why can't we discuss fun topics as well.
Luigi is the second player Mario
Wario was suppose to be the Anti-Mario
Waluigi is just the second player to the Anti-Mario character. So he is the Anti-Luigi
The real issue was Wario. Being an Anti-Mario but not an Evil Villain just an greedy version Mario, kinda of an Anti-Hero. In terms of story that is a fun angle. So it isn't an opposite of Mario, but a twisted version of him. So compared to Mario, Luigi has little in terms of personality so trying to make a twisted version of him to complement Wario just didn't work. It is just a taller Wario.
"The USA has some of the cleanest air and water in the world. "
Had some of the cleanest air and water in the world.
I live in area where the water supply for miles has been polluted from PFOA from lazy Environmental enforcement, because of jobs. While after the watersupply was poisoned. The local community is nearly collapsed, because no one want to move to the community, and people can't sell their homes to move out.
It will depend. If the company that makes the product is also the ones that ship it, then they are responsible for not properly caring for their product in transit.
I could make a top quality wooden sculpture. But if I decided to ship it in a box of nails and the customer gets it, they will be rightfully annoyed at my product.
The first sentence in my argument "I am not saying there are bad companies that produce crap." If they are overselling (lying about) their product and services and giving misleading information then yes they should be responsible for customer backlash, because they are scamming people.
But if that Cheap Battery held 2000mAh but worked within reason for 2 years. While the one that costs twice as much held the 2000mAh for 4 years. And both were guaranteed for 2 years. You shouldn't fault the Cheap maker because you got what they were selling and promising, while the more expensive brand undersold it quality.
Garbage bags, Pet waste (pooper picker) bags. Which are actually much better because they won't have a random hole in it, and they are designed to hold biomater.
Plastic Grocery bags. For an average shopping experience you will get 7 or 8 a normal week. and 10 - 12 for a large shopping week. So you will normally collect more bags then most people will normally reuse. Specialty bags, while still will pollute are often much smaller, because they are designed to hold waste for a day, vs. Food for a week.
I actually like reusable bags. They are often bigger (Can hold more stuff), Cloth handles so they are not cutting into your hand for heavy loads. Are in shapes of rectangles so they are easier to stack in your car. The only issue is hygiene, I still ask to have my meat wrapped in plastic. and occasionally will need to wash the bags with soap and water.
I am not saying there are bad companies that produce crap. But if you look at Amazon bad reviews on products most of them are from people who got a product to solve a problem that there was no advertising to say it was even remotely going to solve.
This $400 dell laptop runs the most modern games kinda choppy. It is utter crap compared to my $3000 desktop system I made last year.
Or the people don’t understand the difference between a professional product vs a home product. Your linksys home router vs a Cisco switch for a data center. The home router is orders of magnitude cheaper and it has more features.
Or people getting an expensive camera with lenses that do not autofocus. For most average picture taker your phone will get better pictures. But for the professional photographer they can get real art from this complex phone.
People often will get the cheapest crap they can find expecting it to work like the premium version, or pay top dollar for an item that is meant for professionals that require sill and training to use.
Being after leaving the Paris Accord, the US still has to oblige its promises until 2020. Also being the political nature, most companies would be an absolute idiot to go in full pollution mode, only to have the rules put back in the next 3-7 years. Regulations is rarely a problem for companies, it is the change of regulations. If these companies begin a process of lowering their carbon. They will probably continue on, if the rules are not set back, then they can breath a sigh of relief if their investment doesn't meet target. But if it goes back, they don't have to start over from scratch again.
Energy storage technologies are about increasing efficiencies of power generation. So power companies are paying less in fuel for power that is just wasted.
Being that we are in a two party system (which I do not like) the ability to make an intelligent well informed voting decision is often not possible.
It normally comes down to. Is my life better or worse with this guy in office. If it is worse, then I vote against them, if it better then I vote for them.
1) Knowing what the current issues are is the responsibility of the person who is running, not the voter. I have my own issues, and the person running for office, will be willing to address them, or not address them. I may have many issues, where different people will and will not address a set of them. So I need to figure what is more important to me to vote.
2) Policy may not be a priority for the voter. Often the policy difference and change have little or no real effect, or their changes will balance themselves out. Say for example Free Market forces prevent companies from producing too crappy of a product, vs regulation telling the company not to produce a crappy product. Either way companies are not creating a crappy product. The difference comes down to either companies feeling the freedom to explore the idea that created the crappy product in the future to try something else, vs. giving the consumers comfort knowing that such crappy product will not be on the market.
2a) While I agree that would pick who we feel is most qualified, but that is still a judgement call. While I found Trump campaign to be akin to a Hack Used Car Salesman, and his lack of depth in the issue made me feel that is unqualified to be president. Others see his success alone as a strong qualify factor. And being a leader of a large organization makes him more qualified then a career politicians who just do the same thing over again.
3) I agree that there needs to be truth and unbiased fact checking. But with the current nature we have bias "news" media calling the opposing side as lairs. Making it difficult to try to make an informed decision. However it will come down to which lies we believe or just don't care about.
OpenBSD or am I walking into a Troll?
However the big issue with OpenBSD is that it isn't designed well for general computing that we do on our PC's. Being everything that is potentially dangerous is closed and/or locked down. It means when ever we need to do something new, we need to consciously turn off a security feature. While great for hosting and servers where such rigor should be the norm. For your PC it can get annoying rather quickly.
It would depend on the business model of the company. Luxury/Sports car makers, will be more likely to do self imposed recalls, because their brand image is based on quality and perception. If they can fix a problem before it becomes an issue, then most likely the customer will not think poorly of the product, and when they get a new one, they will more likely go with the same company again.
If you are getting a more budget practical car, having a hinge fall of, or a wobbly sun-visor isn't a safety issue, and chances are the customer will not be loyal to that brand as much as the luxury makers. Sure my last two cars were Toyota's however there isn't anything wrong with my next car being a Honda, or some other brand. Being that I expect a particular build quality, which isn't fine tuned, but just acceptable and reliable.