I don't think the government getting more revenue than the tobacco companies (if true) is a bad thing overall. The voters have no love lost for the tobacco companies, and the money the government gets does go back to medical research. It's not like this was done against the will of the voters.
Hiring used to be for the length of a career. You stuck with a company for a long time. So rather than hire an idiot that's only good for an entry level job, they hired someone who was able to grow into other positions over time. That habit has held over. Maybe it's better to hire the idiots now for entry level jobs, then refuse them promotions until they prove they're capable (which will be difficult if their writing level is 6th grade, they never took any math classes, and they only thing they're self taught in is PC helpdesk and video games.
In my experience, people are not very good at learning on their own. They're very apt to skip the boring topics, they'll just skim the surface, and they'll have an over-inflated idea of their own worth on the job.
Granted, no everyone can and should go to college. But if someone does have the opportunity to go to college affordably and they skip it, that's is some serious self harm being inflicted.
Haven't seen any of the latest batch. And this means more and more spoilers if I see the later ones anyway. Who cares if scores are high or low anyway, no one ever paid attention to reviews with action movies before.
Simply put, too many stupid superhero movies. I didn't grow up with Justice League, I don't care who's in them or not. I did not read every single comic ever produced by DC or Marvel, so it's completely unimportant if some obscure character from the 90's makes an appearance. Who has time or money to keep up with every franchise, character, and and alternate universe? Sheesh, two spiderman reboots? Give it a rest already.
It's a all too common practice that when a pharma patent expires that there is a minor tweak to the original formulation. Thus a new and improved product at much higher prices than the generic alternative, and sometimes even with a new patent. The snag comes from doctors who don't readily know the difference in costs between the generic and the premium product who will go and subscribe the one that has the new improved formulation.
It is somewhat telling that those who profess the deepest allegiance to the free market are also the ones who've figured out the loopholes in it.
Renting is cheap though, since the online prices for a one-time showing of a year old movie are much higher. Sometimes the online cost of a one time showing of a movie can be the same as going to the theater. This may surprise some slashdotters, but saving $10 for some people greatly outweights the value of never leaving the basement.
Agree and disagree. There is absolutely a need to develop applications; they should not all be on the web. But This "Universal" framework is not universal, it doesn't support Windows 8.1, 8, 7, or XP. Much less OSX, BSD, or Linux. It is yet another way to try and lock users and developers into a shrinking platform, and also an attempt to yet again force upgrades to Windows 10 that the market has already decided it does not want to do voluntarily.
Our products require software, firmware, hardware, possibly ASICs, and manufacturing. No one development team is going to be able to manage all of that; the coordination of work between the departments doesn't just magically happen over lunch. So that's what a PM does. Well, there's Project Management and Product Management, sometimes a Program Manager, all called PM, and they're all necessary and should align. These PMs also have to deal with all that the departments listed, an some have to deal as well with marketing, training, support, etc.
Not having PMs means nothing happens. Even a bad PM will get the ball rolling and have the different groups start talking to each other and work on the same end product. If there's no PM, one will be invented to fill the gaps.
However, no PM at all will drag the company down too. Someone has to do this job, and if that person doesn't exist it will be informally created (ie, the developers' own manager or team lead will take on the duties). That's because you can't just gather developers in a circle and expect that a product will spontaneously emerge.
So the danger here is in encountering a bad PM and erroneously assuming that PMs are not necessary.
Right, there must always be some sort of product management, even if the devs call it something else. Even if devs are locked in a bunker with no guidance, they will either create their own informal product management or nothing of use will come out of it. Just the very act of saying "We need to create a product" is rudimentary product management; and that gets expanded as the details grow ("like X but better", "customers want feature Y but not Z", and so forth). The rest of product management is about keeping devs aligned and focused in the same direction.
How many last week? Also those numbers should be categorized into "must have", "useful", and "random fluff". Just like the number of apps on a smartphone is not a meaningful metric.
Yes, life in the corporate world sometimes means you ship a product that doesn't work. Usually you get a chance to yank out the broken features and schedule a bug fix release for a month later or such, but I have seen broken stuff sent out because someone dictated a date to ship by.
Now it's usually not so bad because the release notes will tell what is broken, and the customer can delay the install. Or the product may allow a way to rollback to the previous version (ie, uninstall then download the previous version). Neither of those worked for Mozilla very well; the release notes and other sources claimed noscript was ready, and there's not a very obvious way how to get back to the previous version (I have solved this in the past by restoring from backups).
I'm still a bit anti Chrome because of it's marketing approach to partner with other applications so will automatically install Chrome on their behalf, or use a small opt-out that is overlooked by may users. This is anti-social behavior. Every few months I find myself uninstalling it yet again from my mother's computer. Far more often than I am uninstalling yahoo search bars or even MacAfee trial versions.
I don't mind it that much. I have a flat style UI anyway since I'm on OSX, and prefer that to all the flash. But the frivolous switch to new icons was silly; but then almost everyone does that, it's like they need to invent a new incomprehensible icon before they can get their UX badge.
But before the release came out, all the info I could find indicated it would be ready when 57 was released. I suspect that was the plan but it didn't turn out that way. Mozilla should have worked with noscript dev as it was one of the must-have extensions that so many people use, and make sure it worked on day one.
I can see them, but I had to change theme from default (light pages, but dark tabs that are black on black), to the "light" theme which looks like I remember except for the square shape and not being as wide as they should be.
I did notice that when I updated some plugins to the new approved API of the moment, that adblock changed settings to start letting all the ads in. Ie, I had approved ads only, then there was a new option in that to disallow approved ads that do tracking; clicked that box and all the ads go away (ie, back to approved ads only but there are still no ads visible anywhere, which presumably means there are no approved ads that don't do tracking).
The other big snag now is that noscript is not working with Firefox 57 yet... which may be why all the web pages seem to slow much slower than they used to in older versions, despite the claims of improvement.
How do you import old file without importing al the junk you don't want? I see solutions of just copying the entire folder into the new profile folder, but doesn't clean stuff up.
However, I did create a new profile ran the same test on the old one and the new one the the pages load in the same amount of time, which feels slower than I remember. So I don't think junk in the profile or weird config settings are causing this.
Yup. I rarely touched about:config. The fact that Mozilla hides a zillion settings there yet every release the public interface for settings gets smaller and smaller makes configuration management very painful.
I suspect some of this is because the internet is slow and I have scripts running (reminds me to check of noscript is finally ready). But the old style would show you something before the entire page rendered, which made it feel faster and let you see what you needed to see sooner. Now you see nothing until every last part is ready.
I'm happy with a box of chocolates. Or a gift card. They're always the right size and color. But I still get badgered to list other things for my list. Inevitably I get a gift I can't really use, I even got a gift once that I explicity said not to buy for me. Then if I don't manage to hold the smile long enough I get dragged to the overpacked store for several hours so that I can exchange gifts for something else I don't really want.
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I don't think the government getting more revenue than the tobacco companies (if true) is a bad thing overall. The voters have no love lost for the tobacco companies, and the money the government gets does go back to medical research. It's not like this was done against the will of the voters.
Hiring used to be for the length of a career. You stuck with a company for a long time. So rather than hire an idiot that's only good for an entry level job, they hired someone who was able to grow into other positions over time. That habit has held over. Maybe it's better to hire the idiots now for entry level jobs, then refuse them promotions until they prove they're capable (which will be difficult if their writing level is 6th grade, they never took any math classes, and they only thing they're self taught in is PC helpdesk and video games.
In my experience, people are not very good at learning on their own. They're very apt to skip the boring topics, they'll just skim the surface, and they'll have an over-inflated idea of their own worth on the job.
Granted, no everyone can and should go to college. But if someone does have the opportunity to go to college affordably and they skip it, that's is some serious self harm being inflicted.
Haven't seen any of the latest batch. And this means more and more spoilers if I see the later ones anyway. Who cares if scores are high or low anyway, no one ever paid attention to reviews with action movies before.
Simply put, too many stupid superhero movies. I didn't grow up with Justice League, I don't care who's in them or not. I did not read every single comic ever produced by DC or Marvel, so it's completely unimportant if some obscure character from the 90's makes an appearance. Who has time or money to keep up with every franchise, character, and and alternate universe? Sheesh, two spiderman reboots? Give it a rest already.
$60 is not a bad price if you're going to get hundreds of hours out of the game. But it's an outrageous price for 10 hours of gameplay.
Most of those that are hipsters will only shop online anyway, having them going into an actual store would cause an allergic reaction.
It's a all too common practice that when a pharma patent expires that there is a minor tweak to the original formulation. Thus a new and improved product at much higher prices than the generic alternative, and sometimes even with a new patent. The snag comes from doctors who don't readily know the difference in costs between the generic and the premium product who will go and subscribe the one that has the new improved formulation.
It is somewhat telling that those who profess the deepest allegiance to the free market are also the ones who've figured out the loopholes in it.
Renting is cheap though, since the online prices for a one-time showing of a year old movie are much higher. Sometimes the online cost of a one time showing of a movie can be the same as going to the theater. This may surprise some slashdotters, but saving $10 for some people greatly outweights the value of never leaving the basement.
Agree and disagree. There is absolutely a need to develop applications; they should not all be on the web. But This "Universal" framework is not universal, it doesn't support Windows 8.1, 8, 7, or XP. Much less OSX, BSD, or Linux. It is yet another way to try and lock users and developers into a shrinking platform, and also an attempt to yet again force upgrades to Windows 10 that the market has already decided it does not want to do voluntarily.
Yes, the new noscript UI is disconcerting and inscrutible. I don't think any user input was taken into account here.
Our products require software, firmware, hardware, possibly ASICs, and manufacturing. No one development team is going to be able to manage all of that; the coordination of work between the departments doesn't just magically happen over lunch. So that's what a PM does. Well, there's Project Management and Product Management, sometimes a Program Manager, all called PM, and they're all necessary and should align. These PMs also have to deal with all that the departments listed, an some have to deal as well with marketing, training, support, etc.
Not having PMs means nothing happens. Even a bad PM will get the ball rolling and have the different groups start talking to each other and work on the same end product. If there's no PM, one will be invented to fill the gaps.
However, no PM at all will drag the company down too. Someone has to do this job, and if that person doesn't exist it will be informally created (ie, the developers' own manager or team lead will take on the duties). That's because you can't just gather developers in a circle and expect that a product will spontaneously emerge.
So the danger here is in encountering a bad PM and erroneously assuming that PMs are not necessary.
Right, there must always be some sort of product management, even if the devs call it something else. Even if devs are locked in a bunker with no guidance, they will either create their own informal product management or nothing of use will come out of it. Just the very act of saying "We need to create a product" is rudimentary product management; and that gets expanded as the details grow ("like X but better", "customers want feature Y but not Z", and so forth). The rest of product management is about keeping devs aligned and focused in the same direction.
How many last week? Also those numbers should be categorized into "must have", "useful", and "random fluff". Just like the number of apps on a smartphone is not a meaningful metric.
Yes, life in the corporate world sometimes means you ship a product that doesn't work. Usually you get a chance to yank out the broken features and schedule a bug fix release for a month later or such, but I have seen broken stuff sent out because someone dictated a date to ship by.
Now it's usually not so bad because the release notes will tell what is broken, and the customer can delay the install. Or the product may allow a way to rollback to the previous version (ie, uninstall then download the previous version). Neither of those worked for Mozilla very well; the release notes and other sources claimed noscript was ready, and there's not a very obvious way how to get back to the previous version (I have solved this in the past by restoring from backups).
So why didn't it work on the first day?
Change the theme to "light", their default made the tabs bar have the dark setting.
I'm still a bit anti Chrome because of it's marketing approach to partner with other applications so will automatically install Chrome on their behalf, or use a small opt-out that is overlooked by may users. This is anti-social behavior. Every few months I find myself uninstalling it yet again from my mother's computer. Far more often than I am uninstalling yahoo search bars or even MacAfee trial versions.
If you don't whitelist sites, then how does it know which sites to allow through? Does it have it's own whitelist that you have to accept?
I don't mind it that much. I have a flat style UI anyway since I'm on OSX, and prefer that to all the flash. But the frivolous switch to new icons was silly; but then almost everyone does that, it's like they need to invent a new incomprehensible icon before they can get their UX badge.
But before the release came out, all the info I could find indicated it would be ready when 57 was released. I suspect that was the plan but it didn't turn out that way. Mozilla should have worked with noscript dev as it was one of the must-have extensions that so many people use, and make sure it worked on day one.
I can see them, but I had to change theme from default (light pages, but dark tabs that are black on black), to the "light" theme which looks like I remember except for the square shape and not being as wide as they should be.
I did notice that when I updated some plugins to the new approved API of the moment, that adblock changed settings to start letting all the ads in. Ie, I had approved ads only, then there was a new option in that to disallow approved ads that do tracking; clicked that box and all the ads go away (ie, back to approved ads only but there are still no ads visible anywhere, which presumably means there are no approved ads that don't do tracking).
The other big snag now is that noscript is not working with Firefox 57 yet... which may be why all the web pages seem to slow much slower than they used to in older versions, despite the claims of improvement.
How do you import old file without importing al the junk you don't want? I see solutions of just copying the entire folder into the new profile folder, but doesn't clean stuff up.
However, I did create a new profile ran the same test on the old one and the new one the the pages load in the same amount of time, which feels slower than I remember. So I don't think junk in the profile or weird config settings are causing this.
Yup. I rarely touched about:config. The fact that Mozilla hides a zillion settings there yet every release the public interface for settings gets smaller and smaller makes configuration management very painful.
I suspect some of this is because the internet is slow and I have scripts running (reminds me to check of noscript is finally ready). But the old style would show you something before the entire page rendered, which made it feel faster and let you see what you needed to see sooner. Now you see nothing until every last part is ready.
I'm happy with a box of chocolates. Or a gift card. They're always the right size and color. But I still get badgered to list other things for my list. Inevitably I get a gift I can't really use, I even got a gift once that I explicity said not to buy for me. Then if I don't manage to hold the smile long enough I get dragged to the overpacked store for several hours so that I can exchange gifts for something else I don't really want.
I just want to opt out.