It's also cost of living. I get paid less than someone an hour away because that person working an hour away is in a very expensive city while I work in a low rent college town.
Good old fashioned brain teasers can help a lot. I used to do the cross hatch logic problems published by Dell magazines. Crossword puzzles, maybe even sudoku. Thing is, your sleep disorder is probably a major factor in your memory issues - our brains commit short term memory to long term while we sleep, and any sleep disorder that disrupts that process will have an adverse impact on your memory.
If you want to try the drug route, I use phosphodatyl choline supplements during crunch time. That's more for people with the occasional ADD symptom, though.
Wage discrimination based on race, gender, ethnicity, etc is illegal. "$50K/year is good for someone with your skill set" is perfectly acceptable. Telling him to his face that he's not worth any more than that because he's got brown skin and a Mumbai accent is not.
Oh, you can still hire a subcontractor in India for $30K/year. It's just that you'll get what you pay for. As you said, the top jobs there make the equivalent of their counterparts in the US and other places easily. But those jobs only go for the folks who have the critical thinking skills necessary to do programming right. The lead architect at my office was born in Mumbai, and there's a reason he makes more than any of us - the guy's a genius.
Actually, the majority of young teacher-hopefuls in college today come from very family-values, Republican oriented backgrounds. They love kids, and teaching was always considered a good mom-career. It's not until they get into the school system and discover that they're the punching bags of the Republican party that they discover that the Dems have their backs - or at least try to. Not everyone switches parties or joins the union, but not everyone stays silent either.
In the case of Japan and China, it's cram school. The kids go to regular school, then go to school in the evening for another 2-3 hours. Cram school is where they are "taught the test" (specifically, the high school and college entrance exam tests) while regular school is focused more on the standard curriculum.
This also raises the question, how many equivalent whole computers were sold by individually upgraded parts? I got a new Haswell processor and a motherboard this year, but kept my RAM and HDDs and case and video card because they were all still less than two years old and worked fine with the new goodies.
Yet someplace out there, a dude bought some new hard drives, or someone got a new video card. Between me and 2-3 other people, we purchased parts that would add up to a new PC.
Older houses from the mid 20th century may have aluminum wiring, which turned out to be a really bad idea. They tried it because the cost of copper was going up and the cost of aluminum was going down, but it turns out that the properties of the two metals are different and the aluminum wires performed really poorly over time.
Cars in certain large metro areas have to pass regular emissions inspections, even if they are older. I know Atlanta has that requirement, as well as many big cities in California.
So work hasn't assigned you a work laptop, or at the very least, given you a VPN so you can get into a secured network to get your files? Not even OWA or the other open source equivalents on the work network to email yourself at the work address instead of sending it to an unsecured third party email?
I'm a bit worried that if I'm in a complete and total 3D immersive space that I won't be able to use it indoors for fear of bumping into invisible furniture.
I'm in a modest house and I have a tiny postage stamp yard. My Wifi signal is pretty good out on the street, all things considered, but I'm also afraid that if I revert to a five year old and play in the street that I'll be hit by an invisible car.
Have they considered making safe places to use this as part of their marketing strategy? Sort of a big open VR gym? And in that case, let's make multiplayer games where I can shoot my friends who are being presented to me as orcs. It'll make laser tag look like kinder blocks.
... but we're only free from the contractors if we specify that we need the CAD files for the individual components as part of the initial production contract.
On demand part printing is very cool, but it's kind of a yawn until they fly an entirely 3D printed plane.
Yeah, it was a Surface Pro that went BSOD. If they can't even get their OS to run without burps on their own hardware, how can they expect it to run well on anything else?
The majority of sold laptops do not come with touchscreens, even today. Where did you get that impression? It's still a feature you have to specifically search for.
They also get triggered on a single screen when you're playing a game set to borderless window. Nothing more irritating than trying to click a tiny icon in your screen and then having Windows try to helpfully pop up your charms bar instead.
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I'm typing on a Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000. I think I paid $11 for it. I'm devastated they discontinued it. The 3000 just isn't the same.
Yeah, this. The Windows key is the only real way to get to your start menu/screen thing.
It's also cost of living. I get paid less than someone an hour away because that person working an hour away is in a very expensive city while I work in a low rent college town.
Hey, that's how I do my alpha testing!
Good old fashioned brain teasers can help a lot. I used to do the cross hatch logic problems published by Dell magazines. Crossword puzzles, maybe even sudoku. Thing is, your sleep disorder is probably a major factor in your memory issues - our brains commit short term memory to long term while we sleep, and any sleep disorder that disrupts that process will have an adverse impact on your memory.
If you want to try the drug route, I use phosphodatyl choline supplements during crunch time. That's more for people with the occasional ADD symptom, though.
That's still illegal.
Wage discrimination based on race, gender, ethnicity, etc is illegal. "$50K/year is good for someone with your skill set" is perfectly acceptable. Telling him to his face that he's not worth any more than that because he's got brown skin and a Mumbai accent is not.
Oh, you can still hire a subcontractor in India for $30K/year. It's just that you'll get what you pay for. As you said, the top jobs there make the equivalent of their counterparts in the US and other places easily. But those jobs only go for the folks who have the critical thinking skills necessary to do programming right. The lead architect at my office was born in Mumbai, and there's a reason he makes more than any of us - the guy's a genius.
Actually, the majority of young teacher-hopefuls in college today come from very family-values, Republican oriented backgrounds. They love kids, and teaching was always considered a good mom-career. It's not until they get into the school system and discover that they're the punching bags of the Republican party that they discover that the Dems have their backs - or at least try to. Not everyone switches parties or joins the union, but not everyone stays silent either.
In the case of Japan and China, it's cram school. The kids go to regular school, then go to school in the evening for another 2-3 hours. Cram school is where they are "taught the test" (specifically, the high school and college entrance exam tests) while regular school is focused more on the standard curriculum.
Not really consumer systems like the ones in the pattern.
I'm guessing those lines are bigger than 2mm thick.
This also raises the question, how many equivalent whole computers were sold by individually upgraded parts? I got a new Haswell processor and a motherboard this year, but kept my RAM and HDDs and case and video card because they were all still less than two years old and worked fine with the new goodies.
Yet someplace out there, a dude bought some new hard drives, or someone got a new video card. Between me and 2-3 other people, we purchased parts that would add up to a new PC.
Yeah, but I have to dual boot to Windows to play the games I want, so I might as well pay half the cost for a Windows machine. Up front.
Older houses from the mid 20th century may have aluminum wiring, which turned out to be a really bad idea. They tried it because the cost of copper was going up and the cost of aluminum was going down, but it turns out that the properties of the two metals are different and the aluminum wires performed really poorly over time.
Cars in certain large metro areas have to pass regular emissions inspections, even if they are older. I know Atlanta has that requirement, as well as many big cities in California.
So work hasn't assigned you a work laptop, or at the very least, given you a VPN so you can get into a secured network to get your files? Not even OWA or the other open source equivalents on the work network to email yourself at the work address instead of sending it to an unsecured third party email?
There was nothing original about that book. You can find 500,000 similar things on Fanfiction.net.
I'm a bit worried that if I'm in a complete and total 3D immersive space that I won't be able to use it indoors for fear of bumping into invisible furniture.
I'm in a modest house and I have a tiny postage stamp yard. My Wifi signal is pretty good out on the street, all things considered, but I'm also afraid that if I revert to a five year old and play in the street that I'll be hit by an invisible car.
Have they considered making safe places to use this as part of their marketing strategy? Sort of a big open VR gym? And in that case, let's make multiplayer games where I can shoot my friends who are being presented to me as orcs. It'll make laser tag look like kinder blocks.
I thought the implication was that she lied about having no idea how coke was in her system because she was still an addict and still taking it?
... but we're only free from the contractors if we specify that we need the CAD files for the individual components as part of the initial production contract.
On demand part printing is very cool, but it's kind of a yawn until they fly an entirely 3D printed plane.
Yeah, it was a Surface Pro that went BSOD. If they can't even get their OS to run without burps on their own hardware, how can they expect it to run well on anything else?
Most people who would shit-talk their employer would be doing so as an AC, I assume.
The majority of sold laptops do not come with touchscreens, even today. Where did you get that impression? It's still a feature you have to specifically search for.
They also get triggered on a single screen when you're playing a game set to borderless window. Nothing more irritating than trying to click a tiny icon in your screen and then having Windows try to helpfully pop up your charms bar instead.