I pay cash for my cars because of three things: 1. I don't buy extravagant cars; the last new ones were between $25K-$30K and the last used ones were half that; 2. As soon as I buy a car I start saving for the next one; 3. A windfall in the 1999-2000 dot-com boom gave me the initial large chunk of cash to start doing this (among other things).
I could have done the same thing even if that windfall had never come, but it would have meant less money into my 401(k).
All this presumed enough income that I actually could save some of it. Not everyone has that, many live paycheck-to-paycheck, and very few have enough to save for cars *and* max out their 401(k), and save for kids' college, and keep some money liquid, etc. I've been very fortunate.
I've wondered about this with regard to call centers. There are stories of call centers where you aren't on the clock until you sit down and log in at your terminal, regardless of how long it takes from the time you enter the employer's premises to get to your terminal. That can be the same amunt of extra unpaid time each day that this lawsuit describes.
Very true. When CD-ROMs first came out, 650MB was unfathomably huge, in that era where PCs had 1-2MB of RAM and hard disks were in the 10-20MB range. Blu-Rays have about 50GB of space, but PCs have 8-16GB of RAM and 1-2TB disk drives. They'll presumably have the same durability that optical discs have always had, but they're not going to be able to back up a typical person's data without using multiple media. That means either manual disc switching, or jukeboxes that are either expensive or mechanically flimsy.
They're talking about the end of 2015. Even if they meet that schedule (unlikely--they may get the technology developed, but you still have to allow a few years for everybody to finish suing each other), they would still need to be something like 3-5TB to be useful as backup media.
Just being able to stuff all eight Harry Potter Blu-Rays on one disc isn't enough justification for Yet Another Disc Format.
The problem, aesthetically, is that it's a giant flat slab in the middle of the center console. A few smaller displays on a better-sculpted console would look a lot more appropriate for a $90,000 car. Nevertheless, my friend who's owned one for almost a year loves his.
Having been both a programmer and a janitor, I can say that cleaning toilets isn't that bad of a job, and vacuuming floors is a lot nicer of a gig that a lot of jobs in that wage bracket.
Simple reason: no PHBs. You might get someone who cracks the whip harder and harder, but that's much easier to deal with than the idiocy that PHBs in tech make you suffer through. Janitor bosses are usually idiots, but they don't think they're geniuses. As long as you show up on time and not drunk or stoned, and nobody on your run ever complains, they leave you alone. Hell, when nobody complains, they may let the stoned bit slide.
So was my grandfather. He became an optician by answering an ad in the paper: "Opticians wanted. No experience necessary; will train."
Compare that to a typical job requisition today. It's kind of the inverse of CV padding. The list of must-haves is so long that no five mortals or two gods could meet them all.
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Don't use Facebook. You'll get pregnant. And die.
And on a t-shirt.
MATE does seem to hit the "sweet spot" of adding new good stuff without breaking the old good stuff. It also runs very nicely on 10-year-old hardware.
Cristal, Maybach, diamonds in your iPhone... ...We'll never be royals...
I pay cash for my cars because of three things: 1. I don't buy extravagant cars; the last new ones were between $25K-$30K and the last used ones were half that; 2. As soon as I buy a car I start saving for the next one; 3. A windfall in the 1999-2000 dot-com boom gave me the initial large chunk of cash to start doing this (among other things).
I could have done the same thing even if that windfall had never come, but it would have meant less money into my 401(k).
All this presumed enough income that I actually could save some of it. Not everyone has that, many live paycheck-to-paycheck, and very few have enough to save for cars *and* max out their 401(k), and save for kids' college, and keep some money liquid, etc. I've been very fortunate.
I hadn't thought about that track for at least 15 years until you mentioned it just now.
Those were a good 15 years.
Unless, of course, your main application has gone EOL, and its replacement (and all its competitors) only runs on Windows.
Oops. I meant to moderate this "interesting", and hit "flamebait" by accident, so I'm replying to undo that. Sorry.
Someone from Homeland Security will be with you shortly.
I've wondered about this with regard to call centers. There are stories of call centers where you aren't on the clock until you sit down and log in at your terminal, regardless of how long it takes from the time you enter the employer's premises to get to your terminal. That can be the same amunt of extra unpaid time each day that this lawsuit describes.
You clearly don't have small children.
Very true. When CD-ROMs first came out, 650MB was unfathomably huge, in that era where PCs had 1-2MB of RAM and hard disks were in the 10-20MB range. Blu-Rays have about 50GB of space, but PCs have 8-16GB of RAM and 1-2TB disk drives. They'll presumably have the same durability that optical discs have always had, but they're not going to be able to back up a typical person's data without using multiple media. That means either manual disc switching, or jukeboxes that are either expensive or mechanically flimsy.
They're talking about the end of 2015. Even if they meet that schedule (unlikely--they may get the technology developed, but you still have to allow a few years for everybody to finish suing each other), they would still need to be something like 3-5TB to be useful as backup media.
Just being able to stuff all eight Harry Potter Blu-Rays on one disc isn't enough justification for Yet Another Disc Format.
The problem, aesthetically, is that it's a giant flat slab in the middle of the center console. A few smaller displays on a better-sculpted console would look a lot more appropriate for a $90,000 car. Nevertheless, my friend who's owned one for almost a year loves his.
I'm going to start hyping 4-D printing yesterday.
If you've got a dual-head printer, you many need to restart two spoolers.
OK, then the 046102 047111 005113 header.
How do we know that browser developers developed the OS, rather than newly-hired/volunteered OS developers?
Having been both a programmer and a janitor, I can say that cleaning toilets isn't that bad of a job, and vacuuming floors is a lot nicer of a gig that a lot of jobs in that wage bracket.
Simple reason: no PHBs. You might get someone who cracks the whip harder and harder, but that's much easier to deal with than the idiocy that PHBs in tech make you suffer through. Janitor bosses are usually idiots, but they don't think they're geniuses. As long as you show up on time and not drunk or stoned, and nobody on your run ever complains, they leave you alone. Hell, when nobody complains, they may let the stoned bit slide.
I can also think of some chronic pain scenarios where this might be a viable option.
Question to ask the telemarketer: "Is this really what you wanted to be when you grew up?"
Can this Mr. Jesus help me get to California?
"Level of trust"? Is that anything like John Glenn's quip about sitting on top of two million parts, all built by the lowest bidder?
So was my grandfather. He became an optician by answering an ad in the paper: "Opticians wanted. No experience necessary; will train."
Compare that to a typical job requisition today. It's kind of the inverse of CV padding. The list of must-haves is so long that no five mortals or two gods could meet them all.
"Quiet cubicle"? I have never experienced this phenomenon.