Then again...for most of the people walking into an Amazon fulfillment center it is the first time they have ever had to really work in their life. There is a very small amount profit in each fulfillment and the worker adds little value. Perhaps Amazon should call out fulfillment costs instead of burying them out of site and mind? Perhaps amazon should stream video of the fulfillment process across the world? I would like to see Wal-Mart post video of the factory right next to their clothing as well.
Most of the time you don't get fired in the US either. the good employees pick up your slack and they get paid more..if they are smart enough to wrangle the money out of the bosses hands.
Obligatory attack on libertarians before they even show up. This is turning into a slashdot inside joke. Rip on libertarians that don't even exist. WTF?
They will still get the data from the tracking javascript that forwards everything under the sun in an agreement with facebook. Given all of the other data they have from everyone else they will be able to accurately tell you things you don't even know about yourself. Play with machine learning...it will open your eyes. There are very few who are not able to be profiled...you are not one of them.
Marketing departments mandate all kinds of tracking services without vetting them with security or IT. Security usually bitches about it and it seriously slows the site down but it gets rammed through..."what could go wrong?" Essentially you place a snippet of javascript on your page that pulls down whatever code the tracking company deploys. It's like a box of chocolates...
Huawei has been getting slapped in the US for a while now. The carriers and other phone interests realized that their phones were going to change the market. High quality, unlocked, they are protecting AT&T, Verizon, and other phone makers. Huawei becoming a major player in the US would have shaken things up quite a bit. All it takes is one of your wife's friends buying a Huawei Honor and getting on Simple Mobile to show her how she is getting screwed over by getting locked into a two year contract with Verizon so she can get a stupid iPhone. Not worth it--the churn and $70 per line (plus $30 for the phone) shit is getting old. In the end your costs are more than halved by snagging a decent Huawei phone and using one of the T-Mobile resellers.
My wife alone was paying $70 a month just for a data plan on Verizon. I bought a few Huawei Honor 8 phones ($300 ec on Amazon) and ported our numbers to Simple Mobile (in a few minutes)...total cost $50 a month for two phones.
These are the best unlocked phones...feature parity and equal quality of Samsung and Apple at less than half the price.
The other OEMs are not making a phone that can compete with Apple or Samsung. I have bought two Huawei Honor 8 phones for my family to get off the Verizon money suck. Perfect, high-end quality for $300.
Talking with users was not valued in the waterfall process because of the reasons you laid out. Hence, shit software. I think the main point of Agile was fooling people into talking to users without saying it directly.
"It's going to take a month to do what i can literally do in 2-3 days."
Welcome to the institutionalized grind we call corporate America. I have to assume upper management knows this but chooses to just look at the income statement and balance sheet and figure out how to spin it at the board meeting...much easier.
The reality is that there is nothing to see. They were sent on a goose chase, came up with nothing after squirming too far down the rabbit hole, and now they are trying to find something substantive. The issue is, if they do find something substantive Trump will win--momentum is lost and he is way better at playing this game than they will admit. They always underestimate him--easy to do when led around by your ego. The man is a genius at winning stage fights.
Our history contains several examples of societies who have outlawed shitty behavior and have imposed stiff punishment for breaking those rules. The ancient Chinese had quite an extensive list of societal norms that were enforced by law. They were not at all backwards but seemed to address general bad behavior that people would engage in to foment problems with others or cause them to behave negatively in return. If you turned in a relative for breaking the law it was mandated that you be whipped in public even as the relative was being punished for the infringements you ratted them out for. This is just one example of many where they sought to preserve peace among the population. They enumerated various forms of harassment and again levied stiff punishment for stuff that is now perfectly legal in our society. We have laws that exist to protect people from hostile work environments but the laws only apply to certain classes of individuals (gay, black, female, men over 44).
One of the main offenses was starting fights between two other parties. This has totally run out of control in our society and is not viewed as illegal--though people are revolted by the behavior.
Xamarin.Forms: It has existed for years and is nearing maturity. It is definitely ready for production at this point.
Desktop non-touch enabled interfaces are dead though it is possible to build logic in that morphs the interface to adapt better to large format displays.
Xamarin.Forms is based on.NET C#. There has been work to unify or consolidate the XAML dialects but Xamarin.Forms is in so deep I think it will be the standard going forward.
I learned that corporations do not pay taxes when I ran my own business and passed the taxes on to my customers. This is one of the first lessons of managerial accounting--income taxes paid by the proprietor are included in the price. It is standard default practice.
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"Wiretap, do you have a recipe for pancakes?"
Mess it up enough and it won't matter.
Then again...for most of the people walking into an Amazon fulfillment center it is the first time they have ever had to really work in their life. There is a very small amount profit in each fulfillment and the worker adds little value. Perhaps Amazon should call out fulfillment costs instead of burying them out of site and mind? Perhaps amazon should stream video of the fulfillment process across the world? I would like to see Wal-Mart post video of the factory right next to their clothing as well.
" You do not get fired for being slow"
Most of the time you don't get fired in the US either. the good employees pick up your slack and they get paid more..if they are smart enough to wrangle the money out of the bosses hands.
The national average is like $24 an hour.
Obligatory attack on libertarians before they even show up. This is turning into a slashdot inside joke. Rip on libertarians that don't even exist. WTF?
They will still get the data from the tracking javascript that forwards everything under the sun in an agreement with facebook. Given all of the other data they have from everyone else they will be able to accurately tell you things you don't even know about yourself. Play with machine learning...it will open your eyes. There are very few who are not able to be profiled...you are not one of them.
NoScript. ...and just in case....a big, fat HOSTS file.
"The Slashdot page you are on right now runs scripts from nine domains "
Not on my computers.
Marketing departments mandate all kinds of tracking services without vetting them with security or IT. Security usually bitches about it and it seriously slows the site down but it gets rammed through..."what could go wrong?" Essentially you place a snippet of javascript on your page that pulls down whatever code the tracking company deploys. It's like a box of chocolates...
Huawei has been getting slapped in the US for a while now. The carriers and other phone interests realized that their phones were going to change the market. High quality, unlocked, they are protecting AT&T, Verizon, and other phone makers. Huawei becoming a major player in the US would have shaken things up quite a bit. All it takes is one of your wife's friends buying a Huawei Honor and getting on Simple Mobile to show her how she is getting screwed over by getting locked into a two year contract with Verizon so she can get a stupid iPhone. Not worth it--the churn and $70 per line (plus $30 for the phone) shit is getting old. In the end your costs are more than halved by snagging a decent Huawei phone and using one of the T-Mobile resellers.
My wife alone was paying $70 a month just for a data plan on Verizon. I bought a few Huawei Honor 8 phones ($300 ec on Amazon) and ported our numbers to Simple Mobile (in a few minutes) ...total cost $50 a month for two phones.
These are the best unlocked phones...feature parity and equal quality of Samsung and Apple at less than half the price.
"The next iPhone is going have more RAM and a slightly different camera!!!!"
To keep feature parity with Huawei Honor series....
The other OEMs are not making a phone that can compete with Apple or Samsung. I have bought two Huawei Honor 8 phones for my family to get off the Verizon money suck. Perfect, high-end quality for $300.
Talking with users was not valued in the waterfall process because of the reasons you laid out. Hence, shit software. I think the main point of Agile was fooling people into talking to users without saying it directly.
"It's going to take a month to do what i can literally do in 2-3 days."
Welcome to the institutionalized grind we call corporate America. I have to assume upper management knows this but chooses to just look at the income statement and balance sheet and figure out how to spin it at the board meeting...much easier.
In the real world where the FBI is a law enforcement agency? When this mess clears up they will go back to being the president's henchmen.
The reality is that there is nothing to see. They were sent on a goose chase, came up with nothing after squirming too far down the rabbit hole, and now they are trying to find something substantive. The issue is, if they do find something substantive Trump will win--momentum is lost and he is way better at playing this game than they will admit. They always underestimate him--easy to do when led around by your ego. The man is a genius at winning stage fights.
Our history contains several examples of societies who have outlawed shitty behavior and have imposed stiff punishment for breaking those rules. The ancient Chinese had quite an extensive list of societal norms that were enforced by law. They were not at all backwards but seemed to address general bad behavior that people would engage in to foment problems with others or cause them to behave negatively in return. If you turned in a relative for breaking the law it was mandated that you be whipped in public even as the relative was being punished for the infringements you ratted them out for. This is just one example of many where they sought to preserve peace among the population. They enumerated various forms of harassment and again levied stiff punishment for stuff that is now perfectly legal in our society. We have laws that exist to protect people from hostile work environments but the laws only apply to certain classes of individuals (gay, black, female, men over 44).
One of the main offenses was starting fights between two other parties. This has totally run out of control in our society and is not viewed as illegal--though people are revolted by the behavior.
"Many uncritically believe the claims of pharmaceutical salesmen."
That is their only source of information for drugs.
Neo-cons have penetrated all parties and Trump has put them in charge of defense (Bolton). Remember 2002-2003 Iraq war drum? Get ready.
Xamarin.Forms: It has existed for years and is nearing maturity. It is definitely ready for production at this point.
Desktop non-touch enabled interfaces are dead though it is possible to build logic in that morphs the interface to adapt better to large format displays.
Xamarin.Forms is based on .NET C#. There has been work to unify or consolidate the XAML dialects but Xamarin.Forms is in so deep I think it will be the standard going forward.
Cheering for taxes? Never.
Not at all.
I learned that corporations do not pay taxes when I ran my own business and passed the taxes on to my customers. This is one of the first lessons of managerial accounting--income taxes paid by the proprietor are included in the price. It is standard default practice.
This has already been accounted for in the Fair Tax and still leaves business for the tax preparation industry. On to next shill bullshit "point."