Money can be stolen even when it's not cash. Credit cards get stolen and those companies have to cover the fraud themselves. Wasn't it a few days ago that Slashdot reported a digital coin site had been hacked and robbed?
Everywhere I shop they take cash. Most places take credit cards. But almost nowhere have I seen anything that takes digital alternatives. Those that do are very usually food trucks so that people who look to be in their twenties can pay by phone.
The first MUD was explicitly called Multi User Dungeon, later there was a followup MUD2 intended for a commercial dialup service. They were actual games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The meaning morphed over time as some programs called MUDs arrived that were less structured like games and more like social RP spaces.
I thought it was funny that more than one person would run through my MUD area and then ask me if I ever worked at Infocom, and at the time I didn't know who they were (I knew what Zork was, but not the company because I played the mainframe version and didn't have a PC). But I definitely was trying for the adventure game vibe rather than just the typical dungeon crawl. I really wish I had the source code of all I built in that game.
I ran an LPMUD for awhile, added some code improvements to it as well. The problem with discussing MUDs is that there were two very different types - those that were games and those that were social spaces. Like the difference between and MMORPG and Second Life.
I had a lot of fun with it, learned a lot, made friends, etc. We even had a meet up in real life, because so many of our players came from the same city and connected via a free dialup to the University.
Also people need to take previews with a grain of salt. Anyone familiar with games knows that they have rarely measured up to the hype. This is because what the developers or producers have to give an announcement or update before the game is finished, and they often genuinely want to deliver more than they actually can in the time allotted.
If you haven't ever experienced a death threat before, then the first one you get is damn scary. Credible or not, this should carry a criminal penalty.
And yet, many times things DO need to be faster or smaller. Nothing that wrong with Python, but it should not be treated as the only language that exists.
What happens with big trade deals is that millions lose their jobs and millions get new previously non existent jobs. So it's bad news for some people but great news for others. And this happens with or without free trade. With fair trade the balance is not between a few million workers and a few bourgoisie.
Free trade is often used as the bogey man excuse for a different problem. Big corporate farms with few workers are cutting into small and family run farms, yet it gets blamed on trade imbalances (and it's a political hot potato, as it pits voters against campaign donors). Coal jobs are down because of changes in the industry and in customer demand, not because a previous administration tried to dismantle it. The solution is to be adaptable and get new jobs that are not like the old jobs. Ie, soybean sales are down then grow something else.
For example, take NAFTA. The biggest bogeyman for those against fair trade. Here's a report from the Heritage Foundation. Yes, the freaking Heritage Foundation, bastion of conservatism and anti-liberal think tank. https://www.heritage.org/trade...
Protectionism has never helped the economy overall. Sometimes tariffs will increase profits for a domestic producer because there are now a shortgage of product, but relatively few new workers are hired to increase production. This leaves other businesses that use those products in the lurch paying higher prices. For example, the US lumber industry benefits from tariffs against Canadian lumber, whereas 1/3 of lumber used by the home building industry comes from Canada because there's not enough supply domestically. Tariffs added have increased lumber industry profits but raised prices on new homes, wthout increasing the number of workers.
We're not the loser in all the trade deals for the last several decades. It may be what Trump thinks but it's pretty delusional. The snag is that if one person loses a job they will complain bitterly, even though 2 people got jobs.
If free trade is bad, then maybe we shouldn't trade between the states, let California keep its wealth and Alabama go to it by itself?
Far too often I do see some local IT teams as being distant, impersonal, and uninterested in what their hiring company actually does to make money. At which point outsourcing makes sense - do you want expensive local people who don't give a shit, or cheap remote people who don't give a shit?
In many companies, IT is the help desk and computer infrastructure and nothing more. Externally accessible servers are often managed by a different department (operations), or the company may not have any such servers. If your company sells a physical product or a software package, IT is not a part of the revenue stream and is there as a support system only. The same people who manage revenue generating products should not also be in charge of the enterprise computing support, those are two separate functions.
Of course, if your business *is* IT, then sure, it's going to be elevated. However it still makes sense to make sure that the IT services you provide to customers are not done by the same people managing your own internal IT services.
To me, "tech chief" does not mean "IT" or "CIO". Maybe it means that for some IT oriented companies whose product is a web page, but in general the CTO gets on the executive committee and the head of IT does not. Setting up a web page is not "tech", and neither is social media, online retailing, news, or blogs.
Republicans back before the great depression were very protectionist and pushed for tariffs. These never worked out well and after the depression they changed their minds finally and the economy made major leaps forward. We became an economic superpower with free trade.
Damaging US allies and hurting the world economy with tariffs will hurt America. I see no way that his actions are putting America first except in a simplistic world view. I think he genuinely believes there cannot be winners unless there are losers.
I suspect that Trump thinks that deals he makes are only "wins" if the other side also loses. He's not searching for what is a good arrangement for both parties, but instead about what's the most that the US can get in the short term.
Google most certainly can be coerced by foreign countries if it does business in those countries. The US issues fines and penalties for non-US companies, so it's only fair to allow it to go the other way as well.
Americans in general don't consider most things to be important. The majority of senators however do think that the Russia issue is important, even Republican senators (except for those too scared to disagree with Trump). This is not to say that Trump was elected illegitimately, that's not at all what the Russian issue is about at all.
Yes and no. Work can be a substitute for a social life, but on the other hand work is a major time consumer and source of stress. For me, I just don't have time for many outside interests while working full time. And the longer I go at work the more stressed out I get, so I can only imagine that retirement would be good for my health. However I won't necessarily have the money to retire anytime soon and may find myself still working part time just to make ends meet.
Himalyan salt is an ingredient. So for a product being marketed to yuppy vegans hipsters, do they know that they're bulldozing parts of a mountain range to get a product identical to evaporated sea salt?
On the other hand, they are being more honest than the company who said "it's impossible to remove Internet Explorer, it's an integral part of our operating system."
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So you pay with credit card? I remember when a rule of thumb was never use a credit card for anything less then $10.
Money can be stolen even when it's not cash. Credit cards get stolen and those companies have to cover the fraud themselves. Wasn't it a few days ago that Slashdot reported a digital coin site had been hacked and robbed?
Everywhere I shop they take cash. Most places take credit cards. But almost nowhere have I seen anything that takes digital alternatives. Those that do are very usually food trucks so that people who look to be in their twenties can pay by phone.
The first MUD was explicitly called Multi User Dungeon, later there was a followup MUD2 intended for a commercial dialup service. They were actual games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The meaning morphed over time as some programs called MUDs arrived that were less structured like games and more like social RP spaces.
I thought it was funny that more than one person would run through my MUD area and then ask me if I ever worked at Infocom, and at the time I didn't know who they were (I knew what Zork was, but not the company because I played the mainframe version and didn't have a PC). But I definitely was trying for the adventure game vibe rather than just the typical dungeon crawl. I really wish I had the source code of all I built in that game.
I ran an LPMUD for awhile, added some code improvements to it as well. The problem with discussing MUDs is that there were two very different types - those that were games and those that were social spaces. Like the difference between and MMORPG and Second Life.
I had a lot of fun with it, learned a lot, made friends, etc. We even had a meet up in real life, because so many of our players came from the same city and connected via a free dialup to the University.
Also people need to take previews with a grain of salt. Anyone familiar with games knows that they have rarely measured up to the hype. This is because what the developers or producers have to give an announcement or update before the game is finished, and they often genuinely want to deliver more than they actually can in the time allotted.
If you haven't ever experienced a death threat before, then the first one you get is damn scary. Credible or not, this should carry a criminal penalty.
And yet, many times things DO need to be faster or smaller. Nothing that wrong with Python, but it should not be treated as the only language that exists.
13 students take a drug, 8 of them fall violently ill, then certainly it's stupid to dismiss that as statistically irrelevant.
Don't forget, there is a lot of over-diagnosis of ADHD who may be getting the medicine because it's prescribed even though they don't need it.
What happens with big trade deals is that millions lose their jobs and millions get new previously non existent jobs. So it's bad news for some people but great news for others. And this happens with or without free trade. With fair trade the balance is not between a few million workers and a few bourgoisie.
Free trade is often used as the bogey man excuse for a different problem. Big corporate farms with few workers are cutting into small and family run farms, yet it gets blamed on trade imbalances (and it's a political hot potato, as it pits voters against campaign donors). Coal jobs are down because of changes in the industry and in customer demand, not because a previous administration tried to dismantle it. The solution is to be adaptable and get new jobs that are not like the old jobs. Ie, soybean sales are down then grow something else.
For example, take NAFTA. The biggest bogeyman for those against fair trade. Here's a report from the Heritage Foundation. Yes, the freaking Heritage Foundation, bastion of conservatism and anti-liberal think tank.
https://www.heritage.org/trade...
Protectionism has never helped the economy overall. Sometimes tariffs will increase profits for a domestic producer because there are now a shortgage of product, but relatively few new workers are hired to increase production. This leaves other businesses that use those products in the lurch paying higher prices. For example, the US lumber industry benefits from tariffs against Canadian lumber, whereas 1/3 of lumber used by the home building industry comes from Canada because there's not enough supply domestically. Tariffs added have increased lumber industry profits but raised prices on new homes, wthout increasing the number of workers.
We're not the loser in all the trade deals for the last several decades. It may be what Trump thinks but it's pretty delusional. The snag is that if one person loses a job they will complain bitterly, even though 2 people got jobs.
If free trade is bad, then maybe we shouldn't trade between the states, let California keep its wealth and Alabama go to it by itself?
Far too often I do see some local IT teams as being distant, impersonal, and uninterested in what their hiring company actually does to make money. At which point outsourcing makes sense - do you want expensive local people who don't give a shit, or cheap remote people who don't give a shit?
In many companies, IT is the help desk and computer infrastructure and nothing more. Externally accessible servers are often managed by a different department (operations), or the company may not have any such servers. If your company sells a physical product or a software package, IT is not a part of the revenue stream and is there as a support system only. The same people who manage revenue generating products should not also be in charge of the enterprise computing support, those are two separate functions.
Of course, if your business *is* IT, then sure, it's going to be elevated. However it still makes sense to make sure that the IT services you provide to customers are not done by the same people managing your own internal IT services.
To me, "tech chief" does not mean "IT" or "CIO". Maybe it means that for some IT oriented companies whose product is a web page, but in general the CTO gets on the executive committee and the head of IT does not. Setting up a web page is not "tech", and neither is social media, online retailing, news, or blogs.
Republicans back before the great depression were very protectionist and pushed for tariffs. These never worked out well and after the depression they changed their minds finally and the economy made major leaps forward. We became an economic superpower with free trade.
Damaging US allies and hurting the world economy with tariffs will hurt America. I see no way that his actions are putting America first except in a simplistic world view. I think he genuinely believes there cannot be winners unless there are losers.
I suspect that Trump thinks that deals he makes are only "wins" if the other side also loses. He's not searching for what is a good arrangement for both parties, but instead about what's the most that the US can get in the short term.
Google most certainly can be coerced by foreign countries if it does business in those countries. The US issues fines and penalties for non-US companies, so it's only fair to allow it to go the other way as well.
Americans in general don't consider most things to be important. The majority of senators however do think that the Russia issue is important, even Republican senators (except for those too scared to disagree with Trump). This is not to say that Trump was elected illegitimately, that's not at all what the Russian issue is about at all.
Yes and no. Work can be a substitute for a social life, but on the other hand work is a major time consumer and source of stress. For me, I just don't have time for many outside interests while working full time. And the longer I go at work the more stressed out I get, so I can only imagine that retirement would be good for my health. However I won't necessarily have the money to retire anytime soon and may find myself still working part time just to make ends meet.
Himalyan salt is an ingredient. So for a product being marketed to yuppy vegans hipsters, do they know that they're bulldozing parts of a mountain range to get a product identical to evaporated sea salt?
What can change the nature of a man?
On the other hand, they are being more honest than the company who said "it's impossible to remove Internet Explorer, it's an integral part of our operating system."