Their margins are ridiculous, they could spend 2x more on infrastructure than they do and still be profitable. They need to quit blaming their own success for their horrible service, man up, and make a real investment in their network. Stupid thing is, they'd probably see their profits go up in the long term, but it might be a couple years out, maybe even *gasp* four or five before it hits break even! Inconceivable from a business prospective!
I've never done the job, but I can assure you that goatse is the very least of the what the internet has to offer in terms of disturbing images. Honestly, from what I hear about these jobs, the only people who can last long term and probably psychopathic to some degree or another: i.e. they have little to no empathy for others.
Men can subconciously detect women who are at the fertile point of their cycle, among other things men find women more sexually attractive. The obvious (to me anyway) hypothesis is that rapists are more likely to attack women who are ovulating.
No, that is not what he was trying to say at all. Go read his comments. What is is saying was that if a woman gets pregnant from a rape, it wasn't really a rape at all, the woman must have, on some level, consented to the act and/or is lying about being raped. His statements have nothing to do with differentiating between violent rape and non-violent rape, and everything to do with blaming the victim (and incidentally, forcing them to carry their rapist's baby to term). It is disturbing that this attitude can survive in a modern society, let alone in the mind of a person elected to high office.
If the routers have such a switch, it won't be long before someone else figures out how to enable it[...]
Most likely it will be a phone call: "Hello, this is Sam from your ISP, we're having some trouble with your connection, could you follow some troubleshooting steps for me?..."
Ugh, if you want a hard game go find a hard game. You want a platformer? I Wanna Be the Guy (or it's many fanmade and official sequels). You want puzzle? SpaceChem. You want a sim? Dwarf Fortress is terrifyingly complex when you first start it up. If you really insist on having modern AAA style graphics, I've heard Dark Souls is a quality Nintendo Hard but I haven't played it.
It's a big world out there. Get away from the biggest 5 publishers and I think you'll find lots of variety, including a variety of difficulties.
Does you IT make images and apply them to each new laptop as it comes in? Perhaps assuming that each laptop of identical product number is made of identical components? I've seen this crop up at least once, where different Wi-Fi cards were used in the same make and model of laptop, causing problems when the default image was laid over top.
Of course, the other possibility is just bad hardware, typically RAM, but it could probably be anything.
The point is, if you saw a blue screen, something is wrong and it's probably something that is diagnosable and fixable.
It's just barely playing on a Galaxy Nexus... and that's pretty dang borderline. I'm not sure if I were just picking it up for the first time I'd be able to play it (recognizing symbols and words as much off of memory as what you can see on the screen). It's a shame too, there's so much screen space that isn't used, some of it even being letterboxed out. Maybe they'll update someday? I can hope?
You must be too young to remember the days before the HDTV market killed hi-res displays. On laptops especially, the extra screen real-estate is awesome since going multi-head isn't an option. And I would personally much rather have a single 27" 4k monitor, than a 4x20" multi-head setup.
Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) has agreed to pay the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) $340 million to settle charges that the British bank concealed over $250 billion in transactions with Iranian clients and deliberately lied to New York banking regulators.
I wonder what their profit margins were on those transactions... I'm guessing it was higher than 0.136%, in fact, given that they knew what they were doing was illegal (and therefore risky) I'm guessing it was probably well over 1%. So how is a piddly $340 million fine going to deter anyone?
If you can build something on the scale of effectively harvesting a solar flair for energy, there are any number of easier, most consistent, more powerful (over the long run) sources that you could harvest instead. Your suggestion would be kind of like trying to power a military radio by absorbing the kinetic energy of bullets being fired at the soldier carrying it. Physically possible? Yeah, probably. But there are easier ways to solve the problem.
I find it handy to move links from my PC to my phone, just need an addon that generates the codes and it's taken care of. I have also occasionally used them to share contacts, but that's rarer.
So long as you split the NASA launch departments from the NASA science departments it could work, and is essentially what we're moving to anyway. The science is still funded through congress, they shop around for the rocket that does the job they need for the cost and risk they like.
Hmm, lets see... a reading where Winston is the bad guy huh? Does the government still unleash angry, starving rats to eat through his face because he had the temerity to have sex with someone and talking about political change? (do note: Winston never actually does anything to hurt anyone)
Sorry, not buying the "Winston was the real bad guy interpretation".
If 1984 were here, you'd be an unperson by now just for saying what you just said. People really need to read the book... surveillance was only one tiny facet of what makes the party horrible. It is the facet that enables the other, even worse parts, but it is not the be all and end all.
On the other hand, no one demanded seeing McCains birth certificate despite the fact that there were other hospitals he could have been born at within 5 miles of the one he was. Also, the fact that the court precedence at the time doesn't make it clear that he was a natural born citizen, though if not you could argue that he was declared one retro-actively by Title 8. Of course, then you can argue that the concept of retro-actively declaring someone a natural born citizen is a little... confusing. Heck, a federal district court judge is quoted as saying McCain is "highly probably" eligible.
My point isn't that McCain wasn't constitutionally eligible. My point is that arguments could have been made but weren't (probably more for PR reasons than anything) and that it's not as clear cut as you like to make it sound.
There's more doubt about McCain being constitutionally a natural born citizen than Obama.
Obama was born in Hawaii, even ignoring the fact that his birth certificate was shown I find it hard to believe that someone had the amazing foresight to put a fake birth announcement in the paper on the off chance he would want to run for president someday.
On the other hand, McCain was born in a Panama, at a navy base hospital. What, exactly, McCain's citizenship status would be is a matter of some legal debate, because of various laws in place at the time and enacted later that would effect it.
My point is, it was never brought up during the campaign because everyone who is honest with themselves knows that there's no conceivable difference between someone born in one place versus someone born someone else. Being born within the borders of the US does not grant you automatic super-patriot powers. As long as you've been a citizen for a hellava long time and have shown loyalty it really shouldn't matter. (Of course, more likely, no one brought it up because attacking the citizenship of a war hero is probably a terrible idea from a PR standpoint).
Personally, I always thought the natural born requirement was silly. Why don't we just change the requirement to being a US citizen for 35 years and put it in line with the age restrictions. If someone wants to move here at 20 and run for office at 55 I say why the hell shouldn't they be allowed to? If you're willing to believe that someone is willing to plot for 35 years to throw down the US by the ridiculously unlikely plan of being elected president, why do you doubt that someone wouldn't be willing to brainwash their child into doing it instead?
The implication of your statement is that companies need to sometimes say "this solution would save me money in 5 years vs this solution which costs half as much". There are times, quite possibly the majority of times, where the 'correct' decision is the cheaper one, and what you'll end up with is a world full of 'bad' software. What if the company simply doesn't have the money or time to invest in what you would consider the 'right' solution? What if implementing it the 'right' way is going to make you 6 months late to the market? What if there are simply no coders available with the skill sets you need?
There aren't enough 'good' coders in the world to implement all the software that needs to be written, let along 'very good' ones. Not to mention good architects, designers, requirements analysts, etc, etc, etc. And even if there were, software that needs to work together isn't always designed to do so. Hacks, cludges, and jerry rigged solutions are what hold the tech world together, no amount of wishful thinking is going to change that.
You'll miss out on some of the worlds greatest artistic works if you stop because it's depressing or otherwise not 'enjoyable'. Pan's Labyrinth is an amazing movie, but it's dark, depressing, and terrifying (and not in a good way, I mean in a way that will give grown men nightmares). Jurassic Bark is has one of the best endings to any single episode of any cartoon ever, but it will make you cry like a baby. Eon starts with the world powers nuking each other into oblivion, despite the fact that both sides knew exactly what would happen if they did so.
It's amazing that a CEO can come in and say "Make a better product!" and it comes as a shock to everyone. And I don't want to take away from what she's doing, on the contrary, I applaud it. Focusing on employees and quality products versus focusing on financials and Wall Street is a huge step in the right direction for any company. It's just sad that it's newsworthy.
This seems completely irrelevant; in the very best case it sounds like selection bias. The people using this technology will be more like to be tech enthusiasts. While I don't know the demographics of Vietnam, I know that in the States that kind of audience will typically have higher income levels.
But even that's a tenuous guess - my point was that the phrasing of the statement strongly implies that deposit balances are directly connected to card type (fingerprint vs pin); but there's nothing in TFA that supports that.
That is exactly what the point of the statement was. Banks want to have people with large accounts, implementing the print scanners on the cards increased the number of large accounts they have, therefore increasing the bank's profitability. It's probably taken directly out of a press release full of self-praise for what a great decision it was, which explains why the intent of the statement got so muddled.
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Their margins are ridiculous, they could spend 2x more on infrastructure than they do and still be profitable. They need to quit blaming their own success for their horrible service, man up, and make a real investment in their network. Stupid thing is, they'd probably see their profits go up in the long term, but it might be a couple years out, maybe even *gasp* four or five before it hits break even! Inconceivable from a business prospective!
I've never done the job, but I can assure you that goatse is the very least of the what the internet has to offer in terms of disturbing images. Honestly, from what I hear about these jobs, the only people who can last long term and probably psychopathic to some degree or another: i.e. they have little to no empathy for others.
Men can subconciously detect women who are at the fertile point of their cycle, among other things men find women more sexually attractive. The obvious (to me anyway) hypothesis is that rapists are more likely to attack women who are ovulating.
No, that is not what he was trying to say at all. Go read his comments. What is is saying was that if a woman gets pregnant from a rape, it wasn't really a rape at all, the woman must have, on some level, consented to the act and/or is lying about being raped. His statements have nothing to do with differentiating between violent rape and non-violent rape, and everything to do with blaming the victim (and incidentally, forcing them to carry their rapist's baby to term). It is disturbing that this attitude can survive in a modern society, let alone in the mind of a person elected to high office.
If the routers have such a switch, it won't be long before someone else figures out how to enable it[...]
Most likely it will be a phone call: "Hello, this is Sam from your ISP, we're having some trouble with your connection, could you follow some troubleshooting steps for me?..."
Onsite tape backups also have a tendency to become unreadable if said site burns down. Different products for different use cases.
More likely you'd pay 3.43 micro-BTC.
Ugh, if you want a hard game go find a hard game. You want a platformer? I Wanna Be the Guy (or it's many fanmade and official sequels). You want puzzle? SpaceChem. You want a sim? Dwarf Fortress is terrifyingly complex when you first start it up. If you really insist on having modern AAA style graphics, I've heard Dark Souls is a quality Nintendo Hard but I haven't played it.
It's a big world out there. Get away from the biggest 5 publishers and I think you'll find lots of variety, including a variety of difficulties.
Does you IT make images and apply them to each new laptop as it comes in? Perhaps assuming that each laptop of identical product number is made of identical components? I've seen this crop up at least once, where different Wi-Fi cards were used in the same make and model of laptop, causing problems when the default image was laid over top.
Of course, the other possibility is just bad hardware, typically RAM, but it could probably be anything.
The point is, if you saw a blue screen, something is wrong and it's probably something that is diagnosable and fixable.
It's just barely playing on a Galaxy Nexus... and that's pretty dang borderline. I'm not sure if I were just picking it up for the first time I'd be able to play it (recognizing symbols and words as much off of memory as what you can see on the screen). It's a shame too, there's so much screen space that isn't used, some of it even being letterboxed out. Maybe they'll update someday? I can hope?
You must be too young to remember the days before the HDTV market killed hi-res displays. On laptops especially, the extra screen real-estate is awesome since going multi-head isn't an option. And I would personally much rather have a single 27" 4k monitor, than a 4x20" multi-head setup.
Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) has agreed to pay the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) $340 million to settle charges that the British bank concealed over $250 billion in transactions with Iranian clients and deliberately lied to New York banking regulators.
I wonder what their profit margins were on those transactions... I'm guessing it was higher than 0.136%, in fact, given that they knew what they were doing was illegal (and therefore risky) I'm guessing it was probably well over 1%. So how is a piddly $340 million fine going to deter anyone?
If you can build something on the scale of effectively harvesting a solar flair for energy, there are any number of easier, most consistent, more powerful (over the long run) sources that you could harvest instead. Your suggestion would be kind of like trying to power a military radio by absorbing the kinetic energy of bullets being fired at the soldier carrying it. Physically possible? Yeah, probably. But there are easier ways to solve the problem.
I find it handy to move links from my PC to my phone, just need an addon that generates the codes and it's taken care of. I have also occasionally used them to share contacts, but that's rarer.
So long as you split the NASA launch departments from the NASA science departments it could work, and is essentially what we're moving to anyway. The science is still funded through congress, they shop around for the rocket that does the job they need for the cost and risk they like.
Hmm, lets see... a reading where Winston is the bad guy huh? Does the government still unleash angry, starving rats to eat through his face because he had the temerity to have sex with someone and talking about political change? (do note: Winston never actually does anything to hurt anyone)
Sorry, not buying the "Winston was the real bad guy interpretation".
"Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then..." -- P.K.Dick
Coming from him, that's actually even more terrifying than it should be.
If 1984 were here, you'd be an unperson by now just for saying what you just said. People really need to read the book... surveillance was only one tiny facet of what makes the party horrible. It is the facet that enables the other, even worse parts, but it is not the be all and end all.
On the other hand, no one demanded seeing McCains birth certificate despite the fact that there were other hospitals he could have been born at within 5 miles of the one he was. Also, the fact that the court precedence at the time doesn't make it clear that he was a natural born citizen, though if not you could argue that he was declared one retro-actively by Title 8. Of course, then you can argue that the concept of retro-actively declaring someone a natural born citizen is a little... confusing. Heck, a federal district court judge is quoted as saying McCain is "highly probably" eligible.
My point isn't that McCain wasn't constitutionally eligible. My point is that arguments could have been made but weren't (probably more for PR reasons than anything) and that it's not as clear cut as you like to make it sound.
There's more doubt about McCain being constitutionally a natural born citizen than Obama.
Obama was born in Hawaii, even ignoring the fact that his birth certificate was shown I find it hard to believe that someone had the amazing foresight to put a fake birth announcement in the paper on the off chance he would want to run for president someday.
On the other hand, McCain was born in a Panama, at a navy base hospital. What, exactly, McCain's citizenship status would be is a matter of some legal debate, because of various laws in place at the time and enacted later that would effect it.
My point is, it was never brought up during the campaign because everyone who is honest with themselves knows that there's no conceivable difference between someone born in one place versus someone born someone else. Being born within the borders of the US does not grant you automatic super-patriot powers. As long as you've been a citizen for a hellava long time and have shown loyalty it really shouldn't matter. (Of course, more likely, no one brought it up because attacking the citizenship of a war hero is probably a terrible idea from a PR standpoint).
Personally, I always thought the natural born requirement was silly. Why don't we just change the requirement to being a US citizen for 35 years and put it in line with the age restrictions. If someone wants to move here at 20 and run for office at 55 I say why the hell shouldn't they be allowed to? If you're willing to believe that someone is willing to plot for 35 years to throw down the US by the ridiculously unlikely plan of being elected president, why do you doubt that someone wouldn't be willing to brainwash their child into doing it instead?
The implication of your statement is that companies need to sometimes say "this solution would save me money in 5 years vs this solution which costs half as much". There are times, quite possibly the majority of times, where the 'correct' decision is the cheaper one, and what you'll end up with is a world full of 'bad' software. What if the company simply doesn't have the money or time to invest in what you would consider the 'right' solution? What if implementing it the 'right' way is going to make you 6 months late to the market? What if there are simply no coders available with the skill sets you need?
There aren't enough 'good' coders in the world to implement all the software that needs to be written, let along 'very good' ones. Not to mention good architects, designers, requirements analysts, etc, etc, etc. And even if there were, software that needs to work together isn't always designed to do so. Hacks, cludges, and jerry rigged solutions are what hold the tech world together, no amount of wishful thinking is going to change that.
You'll miss out on some of the worlds greatest artistic works if you stop because it's depressing or otherwise not 'enjoyable'. Pan's Labyrinth is an amazing movie, but it's dark, depressing, and terrifying (and not in a good way, I mean in a way that will give grown men nightmares). Jurassic Bark is has one of the best endings to any single episode of any cartoon ever, but it will make you cry like a baby. Eon starts with the world powers nuking each other into oblivion, despite the fact that both sides knew exactly what would happen if they did so.
It's amazing that a CEO can come in and say "Make a better product!" and it comes as a shock to everyone. And I don't want to take away from what she's doing, on the contrary, I applaud it. Focusing on employees and quality products versus focusing on financials and Wall Street is a huge step in the right direction for any company. It's just sad that it's newsworthy.
This seems completely irrelevant; in the very best case it sounds like selection bias. The people using this technology will be more like to be tech enthusiasts. While I don't know the demographics of Vietnam, I know that in the States that kind of audience will typically have higher income levels.
But even that's a tenuous guess - my point was that the phrasing of the statement strongly implies that deposit balances are directly connected to card type (fingerprint vs pin); but there's nothing in TFA that supports that.
That is exactly what the point of the statement was. Banks want to have people with large accounts, implementing the print scanners on the cards increased the number of large accounts they have, therefore increasing the bank's profitability. It's probably taken directly out of a press release full of self-praise for what a great decision it was, which explains why the intent of the statement got so muddled.