If you look at the Denver area, you'll quickly see that it's not so much of a community being able to make themselves a high-tech hub, it's more about some high tech people being able to open some high-tech businesses in an area not known for being high-tech... and succeeding.
The peripherals matter. Denver has a robust economy thanks to a large number of federal jobs. I'm not saying Denver is a "tech-hub" (well, any more than Sacramento would become a "tech-hub") but there are definitely a healthy amount of tech companies here, both small and large. We have plenty of stuff for the young employees (all the outdoors you could want, great looking women, active night life). I don't think Sacramento can compare when you look at these peripherals. Sure, it will compare favorably to Stockton or Fresno, but simply because it's a couple hours from Silicon Valley doesn't make it prime for a tech boom. You've got to want to attract young smart people, and I'm sorry, but nobody graduates and decides they're moving to Sacramento.
Hey GM, you know what car I'd like to buy? A brand new, 1992 Toyota Pickup (Hilux). Brand new. I'd prefer locks and windows that engage manually. I'd prefer that I wasn't beeped at incessantly if my seat belt is not clipped in or my lights are on. I'd also like to have physical switches that control heat, etc.
I do not want an internet plan.
I do not want an "infotainment" system.
I do not want cameras mounted all over.
I do not want a tailgate that automatically deploys for anything.
I do not want a steering wheel with buttons all over it.
I do not want a seat with buttons all over it.
I do not need a special box for my sunglasses or garage opener.
Okay, I know, I have a huge lawn that people keep walking on, but really, why is there NOBODY that sells basic vehicles that aren't loaded with all sorts of "safety features" that simply provide a safer way to do unsafe things while you drive? Hell, you can't even buy a light-duty pickup anymore (though they might still classify them as such). I am in a vehicle to move myself and optionally some other materials from point A to point B. I don't need to be entertained. I don't need a computer to tell me how to drive. I just want to go somewhere.
... and with that, I will return to my fruitless search looking for the guy who was smart enough to buy a warehouse full of 1992 Toyota pickups and keep them garaged for 20 years.
It's not difficult to print out select pages and bring them to class. As a student, the inconvenience of having to print so-and-so pages before class tomorrow is good trade for not having to lug around 60 lbs of books several miles each day in a crappy backpack.
Come to think of it, maybe I just have spun that angle harder and showed up to school with a full frame trekking pack. When the teachers would ask me about it, I simply tell them I need it prevent permanent back damage from hauling their "district approved" textbooks to and from school everyday. Ha... oh well, witch of the stairwell.
Sure, okay. Granted, when I had the idea, you could still register pretty much most generic nouns as a domain name, though, what's to stop a student from just printing out the few pages they might need in class? That way you could take notes on the material itself without having to worry about paying for the book.
When I was a computer savvy high school student back in 1994, I was fed up with having to lug 60 pounds of books to and from school every day (we had lockers, but weren't allowed to use them). It seemed like a really trivial concept to provide PDF documents of the books to those students who opted in. Hand me a CD at the beginning of the term and be done with it.
Here we are, some 20 years later, and the idea has still never been done in a reasonable way. The only logical conclusion is that educators are simply not interested in educating, their only interest is to sell the things students are obligated to purchase.
Many people in the current political climate believe that any formal, organized response to climate change will hurt the economy, cost jobs, cut growth, and create additional spending. In a larger sense, and if we accept these concerns, is this not borrowing from the future?
If a business has made its money by "borrowing from the future" through unsustainable and environmentally damaging practices, and that business is subsequently put out of business because of legal reform that makes their practices impractical financially, well yes, you are hurting certain current economic concerns, but in the long run those concerns would continue to do more harm than good.
To be honest, the episodes that I have watched made me feel a little insulted. I've no idea what sort of creds the writers have, but I got the impression that it was a show that parodied "geeks" made by people who have no idea what the word actually means.
Now, on the other hand, "did you try turning it off and on again?" is something that certainly rings common to me.
Oh shit! This is gonna be one of those "air-tight containers will no longer seal properly" kind of apocalypses? Crap. I guess my stash of plastic bins and trash bags is going to be useless. USELESS!!!
it's like saying Florida when someone asks you what city you're from.
Yet, you argue that someone from Brazil should be called an American because the continent they come from is called South America. I'd buy that if they changed the country's name to "The Brazilian States of America".
A truck I bought after high school had several IAFF (firefighter organization) stickers in the window. I thought they looked pretty cool so they didn't bother me. The previous owner, however, told that I should keep them since cops will be more lenient if I am pulled over. His dad was a higher up in the fire department in that city and gave them to his son for this specific reason.
I was pulled over probably 3 or 4 times in that truck. Never got a ticket, which includes the time I charged over Donner Summit during a blizzard without snow chains and a bunch of drunken friends in the back (it was a 2WD truck).
Anecdotal? Sure. Did the stickers still do what I was told they would do? Absolutely.
... tell the boss to stop being so cheap and upgrade to this decade
I heard the same argument from the Microsoft reseller that sold us a bunch of new machines with Win 8 on them so that we can have employees connect to an HP-UNIX server running a POS through a terminal emulator. Really. (I was mysteriously left out of this discussion... the MS guys don't like me a whole lot).
We have a handful of registers that only work with the POS. Sure, employees can use them for web browsing here and there, but that is not a necessary feature of these machines. They exist to receive money from customers and keep the inventory accurate. Why in the world we needed new machines running Win 8 for this is beyond me, though, I imagine the MS resellers could drop a few buzzwords and make any average Joe think it necessary.
On a side note, my familiarity with Linux is limited to what I need to do to maintain some web servers. Can anyone point me in the direction of a free alternative to Reflections for HP (from Attachmate)? I am aware of QC Term, but it is not actively supported and it's rather buggy.
Are residents exempt from the 14% hotel tax? Do you have to be a San Francisco city/county resident to avoid this tax? What if you're from Daly City?
Preying on tourists is so common that residents of tourist towns often have to deal with it as well. As someone who has lived and still visits tourist areas regularly (despite not being a "tourist"), you get used to asking for "the discount" when you go to restaurants, shop at liquor stores, etc.
The guy was involved in dealing drugs and traveled in Central America. Don't you think you'd do the same as he in that type of situation? I don't think it's worthy of abhorrance to learn the intracacies of this type of travel. The drug dealing, on the other hand, that I can see how people might be opposed.
I am particularly intrigued by the creative use of press cards. Maybe/. could provide all of us an official press card as "documentation" in exchange for having to sift through all the garbage articles in order to get to a gem such as this.
Is exposure just a general "bathing" in sunlight? Is exposure light entering one's eyes and providing stimulation?
Does this have anything to do with the fact that I have always had a very high metabolism yet my sleep patterns rarely follow a daily/hourly routine. I do not wake/go to bed at the same time every day. I am generally awake for 18 hours, then sleep for 8, so I sort of have a 26 hour day, which, of course, causes a number of other problems, but hey, it is what it is.
You do know that there are printer manufacturers that provide you with options for using economic ink refill systems. I haven't been able to demo it yet, but there are some options from Sign Warehouse that will allow our business to print our own signage and we can be economical with the ink since they offer an optional refill system.
Well for commodity items - I get your point. However, my personal experience is owning a house that has a really unusual shelf pegs. Unusual in that they are simply not available.
This is essentially my thought. Our business has to constantly innovate new things that simply don't exist or they exist in ways that are not practical for us to test. If we're building a new set of projects for our facility, sometimes we need to adapt existing components and even then they don't always work.
With our own 3D printing, we can simply develop our own components. They will likely be low run (though we will need more in the future, also low run) and custom enough that we aren't going to be able to do it cheaper than with our own equipment. I really like the fact that we won't have to rely on some other company to remain in business or remain selling a certain component.
I'd really hate to have to compare the ingredients in a can of Coca Cola sold at WalMart to a can sold at any other retailer.
I get it, buy a laptop at WalMart, get a better price because the video card is a knock-off; however, buy a can of Coca Cola and get a better price because they use ethylene glycol instead of HFCS?
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Indeed, and I'd bet they deliver!!
If you look at the Denver area, you'll quickly see that it's not so much of a community being able to make themselves a high-tech hub, it's more about some high tech people being able to open some high-tech businesses in an area not known for being high-tech ... and succeeding.
The peripherals matter. Denver has a robust economy thanks to a large number of federal jobs. I'm not saying Denver is a "tech-hub" (well, any more than Sacramento would become a "tech-hub") but there are definitely a healthy amount of tech companies here, both small and large. We have plenty of stuff for the young employees (all the outdoors you could want, great looking women, active night life). I don't think Sacramento can compare when you look at these peripherals. Sure, it will compare favorably to Stockton or Fresno, but simply because it's a couple hours from Silicon Valley doesn't make it prime for a tech boom. You've got to want to attract young smart people, and I'm sorry, but nobody graduates and decides they're moving to Sacramento.
Hey GM, you know what car I'd like to buy? A brand new, 1992 Toyota Pickup (Hilux). Brand new. I'd prefer locks and windows that engage manually. I'd prefer that I wasn't beeped at incessantly if my seat belt is not clipped in or my lights are on. I'd also like to have physical switches that control heat, etc.
I do not want an internet plan.
I do not want an "infotainment" system.
I do not want cameras mounted all over.
I do not want a tailgate that automatically deploys for anything.
I do not want a steering wheel with buttons all over it.
I do not want a seat with buttons all over it.
I do not need a special box for my sunglasses or garage opener.
Okay, I know, I have a huge lawn that people keep walking on, but really, why is there NOBODY that sells basic vehicles that aren't loaded with all sorts of "safety features" that simply provide a safer way to do unsafe things while you drive? Hell, you can't even buy a light-duty pickup anymore (though they might still classify them as such). I am in a vehicle to move myself and optionally some other materials from point A to point B. I don't need to be entertained. I don't need a computer to tell me how to drive. I just want to go somewhere.
... and with that, I will return to my fruitless search looking for the guy who was smart enough to buy a warehouse full of 1992 Toyota pickups and keep them garaged for 20 years.
It's not difficult to print out select pages and bring them to class. As a student, the inconvenience of having to print so-and-so pages before class tomorrow is good trade for not having to lug around 60 lbs of books several miles each day in a crappy backpack.
Come to think of it, maybe I just have spun that angle harder and showed up to school with a full frame trekking pack. When the teachers would ask me about it, I simply tell them I need it prevent permanent back damage from hauling their "district approved" textbooks to and from school everyday. Ha... oh well, witch of the stairwell.
Sure, okay. Granted, when I had the idea, you could still register pretty much most generic nouns as a domain name, though, what's to stop a student from just printing out the few pages they might need in class? That way you could take notes on the material itself without having to worry about paying for the book.
When I was a computer savvy high school student back in 1994, I was fed up with having to lug 60 pounds of books to and from school every day (we had lockers, but weren't allowed to use them). It seemed like a really trivial concept to provide PDF documents of the books to those students who opted in. Hand me a CD at the beginning of the term and be done with it.
Here we are, some 20 years later, and the idea has still never been done in a reasonable way. The only logical conclusion is that educators are simply not interested in educating, their only interest is to sell the things students are obligated to purchase.
... and maybe to fire ballistic spongey goo at anything it is about to collide with.
I see these signs all the time, sometimes the child will be on a little scooter or something with those lines trailing them to denote movement.
That kid doesn't look too slow to me.
Many people in the current political climate believe that any formal, organized response to climate change will hurt the economy, cost jobs, cut growth, and create additional spending. In a larger sense, and if we accept these concerns, is this not borrowing from the future?
If a business has made its money by "borrowing from the future" through unsustainable and environmentally damaging practices, and that business is subsequently put out of business because of legal reform that makes their practices impractical financially, well yes, you are hurting certain current economic concerns, but in the long run those concerns would continue to do more harm than good.
Ask yourself the same question before you turn the radio down and tell people to shush while you look for a street address in an unfamiliar city.
+1
To be honest, the episodes that I have watched made me feel a little insulted. I've no idea what sort of creds the writers have, but I got the impression that it was a show that parodied "geeks" made by people who have no idea what the word actually means.
Now, on the other hand, "did you try turning it off and on again?" is something that certainly rings common to me.
I am woperson, hear me roar!
Oh shit! This is gonna be one of those "air-tight containers will no longer seal properly" kind of apocalypses? Crap. I guess my stash of plastic bins and trash bags is going to be useless. USELESS!!!
Who says an EMP is a necessary part of an apocalypse?
it's like saying Florida when someone asks you what city you're from.
Yet, you argue that someone from Brazil should be called an American because the continent they come from is called South America. I'd buy that if they changed the country's name to "The Brazilian States of America".
A truck I bought after high school had several IAFF (firefighter organization) stickers in the window. I thought they looked pretty cool so they didn't bother me. The previous owner, however, told that I should keep them since cops will be more lenient if I am pulled over. His dad was a higher up in the fire department in that city and gave them to his son for this specific reason.
I was pulled over probably 3 or 4 times in that truck. Never got a ticket, which includes the time I charged over Donner Summit during a blizzard without snow chains and a bunch of drunken friends in the back (it was a 2WD truck).
Anecdotal? Sure. Did the stickers still do what I was told they would do? Absolutely.
... tell the boss to stop being so cheap and upgrade to this decade
I heard the same argument from the Microsoft reseller that sold us a bunch of new machines with Win 8 on them so that we can have employees connect to an HP-UNIX server running a POS through a terminal emulator. Really. (I was mysteriously left out of this discussion ... the MS guys don't like me a whole lot).
We have a handful of registers that only work with the POS. Sure, employees can use them for web browsing here and there, but that is not a necessary feature of these machines. They exist to receive money from customers and keep the inventory accurate. Why in the world we needed new machines running Win 8 for this is beyond me, though, I imagine the MS resellers could drop a few buzzwords and make any average Joe think it necessary.
On a side note, my familiarity with Linux is limited to what I need to do to maintain some web servers. Can anyone point me in the direction of a free alternative to Reflections for HP (from Attachmate)? I am aware of QC Term, but it is not actively supported and it's rather buggy.
So if you live in SF and you want to stay out at a hotel one night, you can avoid the 14% tax by providing a copy of your lease to the concierge?
Oh my.
What about people that aren't tourists?
Are residents exempt from the 14% hotel tax? Do you have to be a San Francisco city/county resident to avoid this tax? What if you're from Daly City?
Preying on tourists is so common that residents of tourist towns often have to deal with it as well. As someone who has lived and still visits tourist areas regularly (despite not being a "tourist"), you get used to asking for "the discount" when you go to restaurants, shop at liquor stores, etc.
The guy was involved in dealing drugs and traveled in Central America. Don't you think you'd do the same as he in that type of situation? I don't think it's worthy of abhorrance to learn the intracacies of this type of travel. The drug dealing, on the other hand, that I can see how people might be opposed.
I am particularly intrigued by the creative use of press cards. Maybe /. could provide all of us an official press card as "documentation" in exchange for having to sift through all the garbage articles in order to get to a gem such as this.
*extends palm*
Interesting that a majority of species of trees in the US are also of foreign origin.
Is exposure just a general "bathing" in sunlight? Is exposure light entering one's eyes and providing stimulation?
Does this have anything to do with the fact that I have always had a very high metabolism yet my sleep patterns rarely follow a daily/hourly routine. I do not wake/go to bed at the same time every day. I am generally awake for 18 hours, then sleep for 8, so I sort of have a 26 hour day, which, of course, causes a number of other problems, but hey, it is what it is.
You do know that there are printer manufacturers that provide you with options for using economic ink refill systems. I haven't been able to demo it yet, but there are some options from Sign Warehouse that will allow our business to print our own signage and we can be economical with the ink since they offer an optional refill system.
Well for commodity items - I get your point. However, my personal experience is owning a house that has a really unusual shelf pegs. Unusual in that they are simply not available.
This is essentially my thought. Our business has to constantly innovate new things that simply don't exist or they exist in ways that are not practical for us to test. If we're building a new set of projects for our facility, sometimes we need to adapt existing components and even then they don't always work.
With our own 3D printing, we can simply develop our own components. They will likely be low run (though we will need more in the future, also low run) and custom enough that we aren't going to be able to do it cheaper than with our own equipment. I really like the fact that we won't have to rely on some other company to remain in business or remain selling a certain component.
I'd really hate to have to compare the ingredients in a can of Coca Cola sold at WalMart to a can sold at any other retailer.
I get it, buy a laptop at WalMart, get a better price because the video card is a knock-off; however, buy a can of Coca Cola and get a better price because they use ethylene glycol instead of HFCS?