I think the HR people are the only people in my entire office who don't have a master's degree in something. Any company I've worked for, the HR folks had at bare minimum either 20 years experience or a 4 year BA (usually in something unrelated to HR. Like marketing, or social work, or history.)
To an HR person who probably got a BA at a brick and mortar institute, yes. That said, an employer really doesn't need to know that your classes were online, so long as you have the degree. And they won't know unless you tell them. Save that discussion for the interview process.
Doesn't help that it's a buyer's market. If they have 100 resumes for a position, 50 of which have degrees from brick and mortar institutes, and 50 of which have MOOC degrees, guess which 50 are going to be chopped first?
The PS3 was giving DNS errors. (I had to explain to a non tech person what DNS was.) It's entirely possible that the problem was on Sony's end, not Charter's end, but resetting the modem resolved it each time.
I know many people who still have cable television simply because it was cheaper to have a cable + Internet bundle than it was cable alone, or it was only $5 extra if they rolled in a phone line to their DSL connection, and so on.
The problem is that they let the quality of service as an ISP suffer compared to the pampering they give their primary business. Last week while we were at a friend's house streaming off Netflix, the cable Internet cut out at least three times. Yet the cable TV in the living room rolled along with no problems.
As more and more alternative ISPs are added that allow people to break away from the monopolies of Time Warner, Comcast, and Charter, customers will seriously consider dumping their cable package in favor of an ISP that doesn't break on a nightly basis.
Nope, didn't even bother to buy one. I played with a friend's briefly just after they came out, and after my first encounter with the 3D sickness, decided to stick with my DS Lite instead.
That's what killed the 3DS for me.
Fine tune the latency, resolution, and head tracking all you want, but if I can't play it for more than twenty minutes, I'm not interested.
If the states had actually taken care of their citizens (like Mass. and Romney did - hey! he did something right), then the Feds wouldn't have had to step in to begin with.
Funny thing was that the law as passed was the one more or less put forth by the conservative Heritage Foundation back in the '90s as the alternative to Hillarycare. You call it a bad law, but all the alternatives that the Dems and progressives really wanted (true single payer, Medicare for All) were far too socialist in nature to ever pass in cowardly America today.
It did. The government agreed to pick up the tab for Medicaid expansion for three years, then pick up 90% of the burden for another seven years, to allow time for the states to come up with revenue sharing on their own.
Republican governors didn't want to do that, because "coming up with revenue" means they can't spend any expected savings (from cost reductions in other areas, like ER subsidies) or worse, they might have to raise taxes a fraction of a percent in a decade. Quel horreur!
For someone who is simply storing large volumes of media, however, CrashPlan works out well. I forgot that we selected it for the backup system of the media server we installed for my senior project in my master's degree for our client. They needed to store about 600 GB of pictures and movies. A once daily backup is just fine for them - but I think we still negotiated a full Pro package for the other features.
Tenured professors at large universities stick their undergrads with their grad assistants and hustle their departments to get graduate level classes for teaching. (Or, at least, the senior level major-only classes.) The classes are smaller and the students are more engaged at those levels. Additionally, professors often request a semester or even year long sabbatical from teaching if they're doing intense research, especially if it involves travel abroad.
There are, but you'll be paying a lot of $$$ for that kind of storage in the cloud. I get 4GB for free from DropBox. SkyDrive from Microsoft will set you back $1000/month for 2TB - DropBox is about twice that much. It's not really practical for media files.
A much better solution would be archival quality Blue-Rays. They can hold 25 GB apiece and they're supposed to last 100 years, but they really just need to last long enough until a new, even denser storage media comes along.
Most homes today don't come with "smart" appliances unless someone specifically requests them during the building phase. That means if you want to have sensors and wifi in all your appliances, you'll have to install and replace them one by one. I might do that if a specific appliance breaks, but I'm not going to do it wholesale as long as any given appliance is still working.
And this really only applies to emotional eaters. Some people just eat junk food for their diet. Others eat healthy, then drink 500 calories worth of Starbucks in the morning and another 1000 calories of margaritas in the evening.
A percentage of what? Medication? Say a given treatment costs $2000 cash uninsured each month. The patient's insurance premium is $950/month for what was mediocre coverage. The patient's prescription copay keeps their out of pocket down to $50 (the "percentage" that the insurance company gets back.) The insurance company has a negotiated rate of $1200 on that treatment. The insurance company is still losing $1100/month. Then a generic version comes out that costs only $100/month. The insurance company has negotiated a rate on that of $50, and the customer's copay for generics is $10. The company is still making $910/month in profit on that customer.
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Yep. If people haven't upgraded yet, making their computer as slow as molasses is a good means of forcing them to get around to it, finally.
I think the HR people are the only people in my entire office who don't have a master's degree in something. Any company I've worked for, the HR folks had at bare minimum either 20 years experience or a 4 year BA (usually in something unrelated to HR. Like marketing, or social work, or history.)
To an HR person who probably got a BA at a brick and mortar institute, yes. That said, an employer really doesn't need to know that your classes were online, so long as you have the degree. And they won't know unless you tell them. Save that discussion for the interview process.
Doesn't help that it's a buyer's market. If they have 100 resumes for a position, 50 of which have degrees from brick and mortar institutes, and 50 of which have MOOC degrees, guess which 50 are going to be chopped first?
I was just going to post that. It was more or less the only really interesting thing I remember from that entire book.
If they know everyone is adjusting their schedules to watch the 6PM sitcom, then they can charge advertisers twice as much for that slot.
The PS3 was giving DNS errors. (I had to explain to a non tech person what DNS was.) It's entirely possible that the problem was on Sony's end, not Charter's end, but resetting the modem resolved it each time.
I know many people who still have cable television simply because it was cheaper to have a cable + Internet bundle than it was cable alone, or it was only $5 extra if they rolled in a phone line to their DSL connection, and so on.
The problem is that they let the quality of service as an ISP suffer compared to the pampering they give their primary business. Last week while we were at a friend's house streaming off Netflix, the cable Internet cut out at least three times. Yet the cable TV in the living room rolled along with no problems.
As more and more alternative ISPs are added that allow people to break away from the monopolies of Time Warner, Comcast, and Charter, customers will seriously consider dumping their cable package in favor of an ISP that doesn't break on a nightly basis.
I don't care if it fails or succeeds. I just want a reassurance that I'm not going to hate it before I spend any money on it.
Nope, didn't even bother to buy one. I played with a friend's briefly just after they came out, and after my first encounter with the 3D sickness, decided to stick with my DS Lite instead.
That's what killed the 3DS for me. Fine tune the latency, resolution, and head tracking all you want, but if I can't play it for more than twenty minutes, I'm not interested.
If the states had actually taken care of their citizens (like Mass. and Romney did - hey! he did something right), then the Feds wouldn't have had to step in to begin with.
Funny thing was that the law as passed was the one more or less put forth by the conservative Heritage Foundation back in the '90s as the alternative to Hillarycare. You call it a bad law, but all the alternatives that the Dems and progressives really wanted (true single payer, Medicare for All) were far too socialist in nature to ever pass in cowardly America today.
His stage IV cancer is now suddenly in full remission? It's a miracle!
It did. The government agreed to pick up the tab for Medicaid expansion for three years, then pick up 90% of the burden for another seven years, to allow time for the states to come up with revenue sharing on their own.
Republican governors didn't want to do that, because "coming up with revenue" means they can't spend any expected savings (from cost reductions in other areas, like ER subsidies) or worse, they might have to raise taxes a fraction of a percent in a decade. Quel horreur!
You can unblock specific sites that actually deserve your revenue and/or are not obnoxious, while keeping the greater Internet locked down.
For someone who is simply storing large volumes of media, however, CrashPlan works out well. I forgot that we selected it for the backup system of the media server we installed for my senior project in my master's degree for our client. They needed to store about 600 GB of pictures and movies. A once daily backup is just fine for them - but I think we still negotiated a full Pro package for the other features.
Tenured professors at large universities stick their undergrads with their grad assistants and hustle their departments to get graduate level classes for teaching. (Or, at least, the senior level major-only classes.) The classes are smaller and the students are more engaged at those levels. Additionally, professors often request a semester or even year long sabbatical from teaching if they're doing intense research, especially if it involves travel abroad.
There are, but you'll be paying a lot of $$$ for that kind of storage in the cloud. I get 4GB for free from DropBox. SkyDrive from Microsoft will set you back $1000/month for 2TB - DropBox is about twice that much. It's not really practical for media files.
A much better solution would be archival quality Blue-Rays. They can hold 25 GB apiece and they're supposed to last 100 years, but they really just need to last long enough until a new, even denser storage media comes along.
Most homes today don't come with "smart" appliances unless someone specifically requests them during the building phase. That means if you want to have sensors and wifi in all your appliances, you'll have to install and replace them one by one. I might do that if a specific appliance breaks, but I'm not going to do it wholesale as long as any given appliance is still working.
Yeah, why spent $1000 for a 3D printer when you can spend $100 and get a weapon that is far less likely to blow up and take off your hand?
And this really only applies to emotional eaters. Some people just eat junk food for their diet. Others eat healthy, then drink 500 calories worth of Starbucks in the morning and another 1000 calories of margaritas in the evening.
I seriously thought their April Fool's video got leaked five months early.
A percentage of what? Medication? Say a given treatment costs $2000 cash uninsured each month. The patient's insurance premium is $950/month for what was mediocre coverage. The patient's prescription copay keeps their out of pocket down to $50 (the "percentage" that the insurance company gets back.) The insurance company has a negotiated rate of $1200 on that treatment. The insurance company is still losing $1100/month. Then a generic version comes out that costs only $100/month. The insurance company has negotiated a rate on that of $50, and the customer's copay for generics is $10. The company is still making $910/month in profit on that customer.
Thanks to the ACA, no one can be denied insurance for pre-existing conditions ever again.