I do allow some cookies through, Firefox has a whitelist. I have seen no degredation of service by disallowing tracking through the use of disabling permanent cookies. Not seeing ads and not being tracked however is a much great benefit than anything browser cookies could ever possibly offer.
I was going to comment too. Apps are inherently ephemeral, they're going to be popular today and shunned tomorrow, they're highly risky. If you're entry level, or already financially secure, then it's probably ok to deal with apps. But anyone who wants stability should avoid basing their livelihood on them.
I disable permanent cookies. So when I reboot the cookies are gone and it starts over. Add on ad-block (I wish that was a standard feature of all browsers), and there's very little tracking or advertising. Although occasionally I'll be looking at a coworker's or friend's monitor and think that they're on a completely different internet because everything looks so cluttered with junk. Or when I wanted to show something on youtube from my phone (no adblock) and an advertisement started playing and I said aloud "why the hell did that happen" and everyone looked at me like I was crazy because they're all so used to the neverending barrage of ads.
The corner stores I've ever lived near were generally avoided and always overpriced. The 7-Eleven/Quickie Mart model isn't that great. If you run out of milk then normally you wait and buy it later when you go to a real grocery store. The cramped micro stores that you see in a street corner in San Francisco for example, I've always wondered who really goes there, that can't really be the main grocery store for people, it's just junk food and cigarettes and booze.
Now to be fair, I do pick up stuff at a local drug store. I know I'm paying a bit more than the grocery store, but the closed down the closest grocery store, the Mi Pueblo grocery store has that smell of raw meat the moment you go inside, and the closest real grocery stores I go to are crowded.
I wouldn't mind seeing a medium sized food outlet, European style. They opened a few recently but some had difficulty and they aren't expanding. I noticed Target has a grocery section of just the right size i'm thinking of, with veggies and dairy, and it even carries Tim-Tams, so it's clearly filling a need.
The standard of living in those countries is well above that in the US. With better educational systems, better health care, more affordable housing, more security in retirement, etc. Sure there are small pockets of the US with higher standards of living, but when you look at the US as a whole then things start to decline. It would be interesting to see US standard of living index going state by state though.
News is all about the ratings, and that means having stories that are new and novel and interesting. Not necessarily intended to be fake. The new candidate was new, and thus what the new guy had to say was the news, as well as interesting. The old candidate had run many times before so what the old guy had to say was not news, it's been said so much it's a bit boring by now. Protesters however are interesting so they get covered. That's why the headlines that people read are "Man Bites Dog" and they don't care about the headlines that say "Dog Bites Man".
This new sort of fake news is about explicitly trying to get people to read further. Thirteen Secrets Women Know That Men Don't. Senator Caught In Sex Ring. Hillary's Secret Agenda Exposed. Trump Reveals the Top Ten Pussies to Grab. How Your Microwave Oven May Be Spying On You Right Now!
You're really stretching and making stuff up, or presenting your own opinions as settled fact.
Ie, the Rush Limbaugh fans were called "ditto heads" and not because they were independent thinkers but because they were being told what to think and readily agreed to it. On the other hand, Hillary wasn't the liberal candidate, she was centrist, the liberal candidates were Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein, and they certainly stole away a lot of thunder by attracting liberal voters away from who they were expected to vote for rather than following the groupthink.
I was at a privately held company once. They made a ton of money and they sold product at a premium to the biggest name companies. They did NOT want to go public. Eventually they did because the primary owners wanted a piece of that pie and this was just before the time of the dotcom boom. Going public meant money to expand. At the time though the word "pre-IPO" was used more than "startup".
After going public there were the inevitable hiccups. More rules have to be followed, procedures put in place, things written down, things kept secret until reported publicly, etc. Then the focus sort of want away from profitability towards expansion and increased stock valuation, which worked for awhile until it all collapsed (a few months before dotcom bust, they always were a trendsetter).
This depends on the industry and the type of product or service sold. If it's a generic sort of product and the sales person doesn't need to be an expert at it, they'll like more often because they can get another sales job somewhere else. Some of these sales people do a lot of job hopping, and they've got no notions about company loyalty or believing in the product. A specialized sales person, such as medical sales, is less likely to lie because the job market is smaller and continued sales are more important for their commision, and also because the buyer is much more knowledgeable and will spot lies more easily.
Sometimes though lying isn't lying. When a feature is sold that doesn't exist, then you browbeat the development team to add that feature, the CEO or VPs will get into the act trying to get that sale to go through and also insist that the development team put everything on hold to get the feature done.
Sometimes the money is big enough that the bosses get into the lying game too, especially with fudging numbers on the books. I had a former CEO and sales VP and corporate lawyer end up in federal prison. (and the company won an Ignobel award for adapting the mathematical concept of imaginary numbers for use in the business world)
Yes, and you won't see a typical sales person. The article is talking about selling products to an organization (a company, hospital, government, charity, social club, etc). They don't walk into the local computer store to buy a networking solution, and they don't shop online for a payroll system, and they don't search Amazon for new drug delivery system, and they don't head to Crazy Freddy's Auto Emporium to buy a fleet of delivery vehicles. Even for consumer goods, they're most oftennot being sold to individuals, they're being sold to stores, chains of stores, big box stores, etc.
I was at a place that sold business software. I was seriously underpaid but I was hungry and this was the first job offer after leaving school. There are literally Ferrari's in the parking lot though, most belong to sales. We had a cheap product that we sold for a ton of money. After I left I sort of learned that despite being crap, the competition was actually worse. The sales people were selling features that didn't exist, and one even admitted doing it, and they do it because they're caught up in all the sales fervour and dollar bills are dancing in their vision. One time in three years, and one time only, one of the Ferrari driving guys bought a single large pizza for the developers.
But now you've got 10 different companies offering ice cubes of various kinds. Marketing tells you that ice cubes exist, and maybe lets you know that 5 of those companies are the ones to pay attention to - if you want an ice cube. The sales people are the ones that tell you that yes you want an ice cube, and that you most definitely want an ice cube with a particular company, and the various ice cube options that you can get with it. You may see a marketing person at a ice cube show that you probably won't attend, and you may see marketing literature online, but the sales person will come straight to you desk and demonstrate how nice that ice cube is.
Homer clearly doesn't know how to communicate effectively, I see no emojis at all in that page! Homer also needs to learn about how to get advertising sponsors, as that page was eerily free of advertisements for Trojan products.
Well, I use RSS for BBC and for Slashdot. I still go to the BBC website, I just don't browse the front page and try to sort out the various sized headlines. I just look at the RSS and pick out the parts I want to read. Same with slashdot.
But Trump IS the elite! And he's got a cabinet full of the elitist of the elites. Trump is not just elite, he's been on enough TV to qualify as a Hollywood elite. Sure, Hillary was an elitist but to be fooled into thinking Trump is not is just dumb. But that's America for you, what we're really good at is keeping two opposing ideas in our heads at the same time and believing them both.
I've not been on Facebook long. But what I see is not good. Ads, ads, and more ads. Adblock doesn't block them by default. I never saw this crap on google+. And clickbait galore, it's ridiculous. As for the posts, the vast majority of them are highly political and about controversial subjects (though maybe that's just the friends and family I have??). The rest of the posts are people changing their profile picture with a bevy of "you look awesome" comments after it. The whole place feels just a bit sleezy and rundown. If I had bumped across this randomly and the name 'facebook' was hidden, I would have assumed it was a wannabe social media site.
Then you learn to not watch stuff. Some asked for ala carte, but many asked for smarter options. Streaming is a smarter option. that means instead of going from $30 basic cable with nothing whatsoever to watch, to $60 higher choice cable with a few handful of shows, what most wanted was a way to dumb the crap and substitute something good in instead.
The concept of "channels" is kind of dumb anyway, what people tend to watch are certain shows, no matter what channel that show is on. Broadcast TV likes to push the NBC, ABC, CBS logos heavily, but I suspect most people don't pay so much attention - they know Matlock is on channel 6 but not what three letter network that is.
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You mean he'd have been a messiah?
I do allow some cookies through, Firefox has a whitelist. I have seen no degredation of service by disallowing tracking through the use of disabling permanent cookies. Not seeing ads and not being tracked however is a much great benefit than anything browser cookies could ever possibly offer.
The enemy of my enemy might be my friend.
I was going to comment too. Apps are inherently ephemeral, they're going to be popular today and shunned tomorrow, they're highly risky. If you're entry level, or already financially secure, then it's probably ok to deal with apps. But anyone who wants stability should avoid basing their livelihood on them.
Microsoft works with people in the same way that a tapeworm works with people.
It would also need to support ad-block and noscript.
I disable permanent cookies. So when I reboot the cookies are gone and it starts over. Add on ad-block (I wish that was a standard feature of all browsers), and there's very little tracking or advertising. Although occasionally I'll be looking at a coworker's or friend's monitor and think that they're on a completely different internet because everything looks so cluttered with junk. Or when I wanted to show something on youtube from my phone (no adblock) and an advertisement started playing and I said aloud "why the hell did that happen" and everyone looked at me like I was crazy because they're all so used to the neverending barrage of ads.
The corner stores I've ever lived near were generally avoided and always overpriced. The 7-Eleven/Quickie Mart model isn't that great. If you run out of milk then normally you wait and buy it later when you go to a real grocery store. The cramped micro stores that you see in a street corner in San Francisco for example, I've always wondered who really goes there, that can't really be the main grocery store for people, it's just junk food and cigarettes and booze.
Now to be fair, I do pick up stuff at a local drug store. I know I'm paying a bit more than the grocery store, but the closed down the closest grocery store, the Mi Pueblo grocery store has that smell of raw meat the moment you go inside, and the closest real grocery stores I go to are crowded.
I wouldn't mind seeing a medium sized food outlet, European style. They opened a few recently but some had difficulty and they aren't expanding. I noticed Target has a grocery section of just the right size i'm thinking of, with veggies and dairy, and it even carries Tim-Tams, so it's clearly filling a need.
The standard of living in those countries is well above that in the US. With better educational systems, better health care, more affordable housing, more security in retirement, etc. Sure there are small pockets of the US with higher standards of living, but when you look at the US as a whole then things start to decline. It would be interesting to see US standard of living index going state by state though.
https://www.numbeo.com/quality...
News is all about the ratings, and that means having stories that are new and novel and interesting. Not necessarily intended to be fake. The new candidate was new, and thus what the new guy had to say was the news, as well as interesting. The old candidate had run many times before so what the old guy had to say was not news, it's been said so much it's a bit boring by now. Protesters however are interesting so they get covered. That's why the headlines that people read are "Man Bites Dog" and they don't care about the headlines that say "Dog Bites Man".
This new sort of fake news is about explicitly trying to get people to read further. Thirteen Secrets Women Know That Men Don't. Senator Caught In Sex Ring. Hillary's Secret Agenda Exposed. Trump Reveals the Top Ten Pussies to Grab. How Your Microwave Oven May Be Spying On You Right Now!
You're really stretching and making stuff up, or presenting your own opinions as settled fact.
Ie, the Rush Limbaugh fans were called "ditto heads" and not because they were independent thinkers but because they were being told what to think and readily agreed to it. On the other hand, Hillary wasn't the liberal candidate, she was centrist, the liberal candidates were Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein, and they certainly stole away a lot of thunder by attracting liberal voters away from who they were expected to vote for rather than following the groupthink.
Now I am the one getting rich! XD
Are you hiring? No need for salary, I'll just take the options as long as you have Doritos in the breakroom and I can sleep in my car.
I was at a privately held company once. They made a ton of money and they sold product at a premium to the biggest name companies. They did NOT want to go public. Eventually they did because the primary owners wanted a piece of that pie and this was just before the time of the dotcom boom. Going public meant money to expand. At the time though the word "pre-IPO" was used more than "startup".
After going public there were the inevitable hiccups. More rules have to be followed, procedures put in place, things written down, things kept secret until reported publicly, etc. Then the focus sort of want away from profitability towards expansion and increased stock valuation, which worked for awhile until it all collapsed (a few months before dotcom bust, they always were a trendsetter).
This depends on the industry and the type of product or service sold. If it's a generic sort of product and the sales person doesn't need to be an expert at it, they'll like more often because they can get another sales job somewhere else. Some of these sales people do a lot of job hopping, and they've got no notions about company loyalty or believing in the product. A specialized sales person, such as medical sales, is less likely to lie because the job market is smaller and continued sales are more important for their commision, and also because the buyer is much more knowledgeable and will spot lies more easily.
Sometimes though lying isn't lying. When a feature is sold that doesn't exist, then you browbeat the development team to add that feature, the CEO or VPs will get into the act trying to get that sale to go through and also insist that the development team put everything on hold to get the feature done.
Sometimes the money is big enough that the bosses get into the lying game too, especially with fudging numbers on the books. I had a former CEO and sales VP and corporate lawyer end up in federal prison. (and the company won an Ignobel award for adapting the mathematical concept of imaginary numbers for use in the business world)
Yes, and you won't see a typical sales person. The article is talking about selling products to an organization (a company, hospital, government, charity, social club, etc). They don't walk into the local computer store to buy a networking solution, and they don't shop online for a payroll system, and they don't search Amazon for new drug delivery system, and they don't head to Crazy Freddy's Auto Emporium to buy a fleet of delivery vehicles. Even for consumer goods, they're most oftennot being sold to individuals, they're being sold to stores, chains of stores, big box stores, etc.
I was at a place that sold business software. I was seriously underpaid but I was hungry and this was the first job offer after leaving school. There are literally Ferrari's in the parking lot though, most belong to sales. We had a cheap product that we sold for a ton of money. After I left I sort of learned that despite being crap, the competition was actually worse. The sales people were selling features that didn't exist, and one even admitted doing it, and they do it because they're caught up in all the sales fervour and dollar bills are dancing in their vision. One time in three years, and one time only, one of the Ferrari driving guys bought a single large pizza for the developers.
But now you've got 10 different companies offering ice cubes of various kinds. Marketing tells you that ice cubes exist, and maybe lets you know that 5 of those companies are the ones to pay attention to - if you want an ice cube. The sales people are the ones that tell you that yes you want an ice cube, and that you most definitely want an ice cube with a particular company, and the various ice cube options that you can get with it. You may see a marketing person at a ice cube show that you probably won't attend, and you may see marketing literature online, but the sales person will come straight to you desk and demonstrate how nice that ice cube is.
Homer clearly doesn't know how to communicate effectively, I see no emojis at all in that page! Homer also needs to learn about how to get advertising sponsors, as that page was eerily free of advertisements for Trojan products.
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Well, I use RSS for BBC and for Slashdot. I still go to the BBC website, I just don't browse the front page and try to sort out the various sized headlines. I just look at the RSS and pick out the parts I want to read. Same with slashdot.
But Trump IS the elite! And he's got a cabinet full of the elitist of the elites. Trump is not just elite, he's been on enough TV to qualify as a Hollywood elite. Sure, Hillary was an elitist but to be fooled into thinking Trump is not is just dumb. But that's America for you, what we're really good at is keeping two opposing ideas in our heads at the same time and believing them both.
The 1% are evil, but Trump doesn't hire them, instead he hires the 1% of the 1%. Then the story somehow miraculously changes.
I've not been on Facebook long. But what I see is not good. Ads, ads, and more ads. Adblock doesn't block them by default. I never saw this crap on google+. And clickbait galore, it's ridiculous. As for the posts, the vast majority of them are highly political and about controversial subjects (though maybe that's just the friends and family I have??). The rest of the posts are people changing their profile picture with a bevy of "you look awesome" comments after it. The whole place feels just a bit sleezy and rundown. If I had bumped across this randomly and the name 'facebook' was hidden, I would have assumed it was a wannabe social media site.
Then you learn to not watch stuff. Some asked for ala carte, but many asked for smarter options. Streaming is a smarter option. that means instead of going from $30 basic cable with nothing whatsoever to watch, to $60 higher choice cable with a few handful of shows, what most wanted was a way to dumb the crap and substitute something good in instead.
The concept of "channels" is kind of dumb anyway, what people tend to watch are certain shows, no matter what channel that show is on. Broadcast TV likes to push the NBC, ABC, CBS logos heavily, but I suspect most people don't pay so much attention - they know Matlock is on channel 6 but not what three letter network that is.
Hey, I had a CRT in my living room just this year!