"IT" is burger-flipper jobs. IT people rack servers, run cables, configure routers, and handle support tickets. They are your low-end, easily-replaced cogs.
You're looking at computer science and engineering people. Programmers, data analysts, computer engineers, the like. These people are highly-skilled, heavily-educated, and difficult to replace.
Someone on here once told me I should look into an online college instead of traditional Computer Science, because he has this really nice online college that was started by some governor. I took a look. They had Business Management and Information Technology, but no Computer Science. The guy couldn't understand the difference between CS and IT, and tried to explain that CS doesn't require math and that math is just fluff.
IT is not just "burger flippers" as you put it. Yes, some jobs would fall into this category such as patching, basic configuration, handing tickets, etc. But there are higher level jobs such as network/wifi and systems/storage architects which requires quite a bit of knowledge and skill and are hard to replace.
It's interesting that you put programmers in the category of being hard to replace. A lot of IT stuff requires boots on the ground. Programming doesn't, which makes it much easier to replace with H1B, outsourcing, etc. In other words, it's hard to change a patch cable from India but it's easy to outsource programming.
That being said, there are newer non-traditional areas of IT and data analysis that are booming, these includes jobs like bio-informatics, etc.
Some animals, especially dogs, most certainly talk back. Some need to get the last word in, whether it's a growl or a huff.
I swear that my sister's dog (purebred Samoyed), who was a talker as far as dogs go, picked up her grumbling from my Dad. If you told her to do something that she didn't want to do, she would do it but all the while making grumbling sounds sounding like she was telling you off.
Urine should be clear or slight yellow tinge. Medium- or dark-yellow means you're dehydrated.
You can't rely on that. If it's clear or pale, you're not dehydrated. The converse is not true.
This is just one indication of dehydration but you are right in saying that it's not always true. From my understanding, what you eat can influence the color as can other health issues. For an otherwise healthy person it's a good indication. Plus, if it changes to clear after drinking a lot of water, chances are that you were dehydrated.
See chart at the very bottom of the article at the link below. Link also includes a table that has the recommended fluid per day based on body weight...
Note: The color may be influenced by vitamins (i.e. Vitamin B2 can add a yellow tinge) or other things that you eat.
I thought it was normal for a 2x4 to actually measure 1.5x3.5 because of the planing that happens or somesuch.
Exactly. If you want an actual 2x4 you need to buy rough cut lumber from the mill. Planing the wood then reduces the size to the dimensions you find in the hardware store.
One of my long time friends runs a lumber mill. I used to work there summers with him and his Dad, who started it. It was hard hot work but I learned a lot, including how to run logs through the mill saw to cut it into boards and how to run the planer. He and his Dad could glance at a log and know exactly how many boards he could get from it and what dimensions.
I'm not saying that the CEO being a toxic dude-bro was the sole reason that he got ousted. I'm not even saying it was the main reason. But the VCs almost certainly considered it along with all the other reasons that they already had.
Yes, the fact that he wasn't pushing for an IPO was probably a big reason. But when a company has that bad of a public image problem, it doesn't help attracting investors for an IPO.
It's always fun to equate the downfall of a large fish to the actions of a little fish, especially when you are one (I'm one too). The problem is that the big fish don't even notice the little fishes and couldn't care less about their ranting and ravings unless there is something to be gained.
In my opinion, the VCs wanted him out to go forward with an IPO. He was dead set against it The fact that the Uber culture was exposed had no bearing on him leaving. They would have gotten rid of him anyway. In my opinion, any attribution to Uber culture issues is just a smokescreen.
Without Apple they're now rather short on customers and in trouble. The Chinese seem to want their own processor technology so I could well see a Chinese company buying them out.
I don't ever remember PowerVR being a competitor for 3dfx Voodoo in Canada or the US. I remember Matrox and ATI being 3dfx competitors. Perhaps it was a regional thing since PowerVR is located in the UK. I had a VooDoo 2 card then upgraded to a Matrox G400.
Not only will they track you and spy on you. but now they'll also censor your browsing.
At least they're not just silently modifying the traffic to mislead you...yet...
Now what's that theory about all participants in capitalism requiring perfect information about the market?
It's been reported that Amazon uses algorithms to determine what price you see on their web page. I'm willing to bet that the primary use for this is for the Amazon web page to show the same price or the same price minus a certain percent as the retail outlet. This way they could avoid tripping themselves up by showing a higher price or a significantly lower price on the Amazon web page.
And how is your brain's intelligence more than "a pattern matching algorithm"? Maybe your intelligence is not much more than neurons reacting to each other based on inputs.
Because it includes the ability to produce leaps of logic and imagination that has little bearing on your experiences. If it was just a pattern matching algorithm then you would never be able to think of things beyond the patterns that you have had experience with. That's what limits today's"AI"s. They don't have an ability to learn or develop new interests on their own, they have to be fed information .
That they started to rise to prominence when they did isn't some amazing stroke of genius or luck, it was because the various technologies had reached the needed point.
Are you suggesting we'd still have smartphones now if it wasn't for Apple?;)
Horrors.... no.... It's not a smartphone without rounded corners... (grin)
Amazon prime is like 'fast china' you can buy something for $4 you pay $4 and $4 only then it shows up at your door
I agree Amazon Prime.
The other one for me, being a Canadian and a hockey fan, is NHL TV (Game Center Live).
I get all of the NHL games, except for local blackouts. It lets me follow the Oilers even though I am on the East coast through game replays and recaps.
I had a '73 LTD, that thing was a tank. Power everything and heated seats... So big, the corners had rubber bumpers because you just couldn't see them.
My Dad swore by and at his LTD station wagons. He loved those things. I'm pretty sure he cried when they stopped making them. They could haul the family, a boat, and even lumber without missing a beat. Fortunately parts were cheap because there was always something breaking down. I definitely learned a lot about car maintenance as a kid.
I also learned to drive and took my driving test using the LTD. If you could park a LTD station wagon in a city, you could park just about anything.
They were definitely built like tanks. I once drove my Dad's off the road due to black ice. It took out a small tree and hit a boulder. It took two tow trucks to get it out. All it had was a dent in the car door and the oil pan. Replaced both and it was like nothing had ever happened.
That being said, I would put it up against my Jeep Grand Cherokee any day....
So the correct answer to the problem would be to complain to the states' own legislatures, which are supposed to be more responsive to their constituents than federal organizations anyway.
Except that the States are also benefiting both by the creation of for-profit prison systems and the sharing of revenue from scams like this. In my opinion, a prison system should never be privatized. There is too much opportunity for the exploitation of prisoners.
So, their office basically looks like it is a basketball court with a few card tables thrown together. Not even some external monitors. No surprise that nobody shows up to that office. At least provide some proper desks and decent KVM setups with dual monitors.
Our office is open seating but each seating area has a a group of proper office desks, every other station has dual monitors, KVM, mini-walls, and lockers. It also includes tables with bar type stools, areas with stand desks, and proper office carpeting for noise reduction. Plus we have meeting rooms and huddle rooms for when you need privacy. Everything from decor, desks, chairs, etc. is set up like a real office. The main difference being un-assigned seating and the mini-walls which creates an open space.
The WordPress office looks like an empty warehouse space with a couple of card tables thrown together. I wouldn't want to work in a space like that. Without proper carpeting and sound dampening every noise would be amplified.
Except that there are millions of eyes already on Trump's Twitter account and so this "bill" (actually just a stunt) would accomplish nothing if signed into law. Well, except set up yet another government group tasked with doing something that adds little or no value.
Not true. It would force all Presidential tweets to be archived for the public record, including tweets that might end up being deleted for various reasons. This will provide a historical record that can be analyzed by historians, researchers, and laughed at hilariously by people in 2030.... The comedic value alone makes this worth it... (grin)
The big difference post-'03 is they started 'Disneyfying' themselves, theme parks everywhere...
There are only 6 legoland theme parks.. and 4 of them were built before '03. The remaining two opened in '11 and just '17.
In my opinion, the "Disneyfying" and turnaround began with the Lego Star Wars video game in 2005. It did more, in my opinion, for the brand than anything else. Practically everyone I knew had a copy, even people who weren't big lego fans. The Star Wars co-branding, in my opinion, has been one of the biggest pieces. The Lego movies, mindstorms, etc. all add to the bottom line but it all started with the video games.
I agree that it's not illegal. But I think this is what got him fired. If I knew the son of a bitch was sending stuff to the press trying to sabotage me I'd dump him too.
I think that your timeline of events is mixed up. I believe that Comey was fired on May 9th and the Memos weren't revealed until around May 16th, a week later. And this was only after President Trump bashed him on Twitter several times....
So, no, he wasn't fired for leaking stuff to the press. He was clearly fired because President Trump wanted Comey to publicly clear his name concerning the Russia investigation.
"According to Cox, when farmers decide to take land out of the CRP, it means that most of the money spent on environmental improvements on that land is wasted. "The benefit is lost really quickly," he says."
Farmed are pulling out of the CRP. The CRP agreements only last 10 years. After the 10 years the farmed pull out as opposed to continue.
During that 10 year span, or however long the land was set aside, there was a benefit to the environment. Yes, any future benefit disappears when the farmers voluntarily opt out of the program. But the farmer isn't to blame for the fact that the dollars were spent on a temporary fix with no permanent solution.
The dollars should have been used to buy up the land, not just rent it. For that I blame the people who decided on this program in the first place. My guess is that they might have honestly thought that we would be fixing environmental issue by now instead of making them worse....
The study cites 14-21 units/week of alcohol as "moderate consumption". That is not moderate, it's definitely into the "high" range. Thus, the conclusion is flawed when the paper talks about moderate consumption, because it isn't.
It you would read the paper, it supports the current UK recommended limits (14 units per week maximum) and posits that the current US limits are too high.
That is perfectly in line with what I've stated in this thread and in other comments on this article.
BTW, the definition of units is poorly defined here. Below is a link to the UK web page that shows what they mean. For me, I would have to be on a drinking spree to drink 6L of lager a week. I enjoy alcohol but I tend to limit it to a couple of coolers at occasional BBQs and a couple of glasses of wine at special occasions and nights out with friends.
A search engine is worse than worthless if it allows this to happen.
Well, that's how they started out, as a search company. They started accepting money to fudge the results to push those who pay to the top and created side ads. But Ad dollars are like crack, they got addictive. Now they post the ads on the op of the search instead of the results.
By the way, they got rid of the "don't be evil" motto when they became Alphabet. Now it's "Do the Right thing". Which, if you think about it, is much more ambiguous because the right thing for shareholders isn't always compatible with the right thing for users.
This is an example where the right thing for shareholders, charging lots of money for prominent ads that show up before every search, leads to the wrong thing for users, a first page with practically no good search results and one where Ad hijacking is easy....
It's more about the fact that consumers using gasoline cars do not have to pay the costs directly. Instead, the costs of their choice are socialized to everybody. If gasoline users had to pay enough gas taxes to cover all the costs associated with their use of gasoline that market would evaporate in a couple of years.
First of all, you forget that most countries charge taxes on gas purchases. In fact, these taxes were supposed to be earmarked for road improvements and to offset other expenses. The problem is that governments then discovered ways of diverting this money to other things like pet projects. Plus, the cost of scrubbers, etc. used in gas refinement are included in the price of gasoline. Gasoline is just one product of many that comes out of the refinery. The same process creates a ton of other things like propane, etc.
Second, you are a bit naive if you thing that electric car owners are paying for the full ride. We don't know what the environmental impact is going to be from producing all of those batteries and how to deal with the resulting waste.
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"IT" is burger-flipper jobs. IT people rack servers, run cables, configure routers, and handle support tickets. They are your low-end, easily-replaced cogs.
You're looking at computer science and engineering people. Programmers, data analysts, computer engineers, the like. These people are highly-skilled, heavily-educated, and difficult to replace.
Someone on here once told me I should look into an online college instead of traditional Computer Science, because he has this really nice online college that was started by some governor. I took a look. They had Business Management and Information Technology, but no Computer Science. The guy couldn't understand the difference between CS and IT, and tried to explain that CS doesn't require math and that math is just fluff.
IT is not just "burger flippers" as you put it. Yes, some jobs would fall into this category such as patching, basic configuration, handing tickets, etc. But there are higher level jobs such as network/wifi and systems/storage architects which requires quite a bit of knowledge and skill and are hard to replace.
It's interesting that you put programmers in the category of being hard to replace. A lot of IT stuff requires boots on the ground. Programming doesn't, which makes it much easier to replace with H1B, outsourcing, etc. In other words, it's hard to change a patch cable from India but it's easy to outsource programming.
That being said, there are newer non-traditional areas of IT and data analysis that are booming, these includes jobs like bio-informatics, etc.
Some animals, especially dogs, most certainly talk back. Some need to get the last word in, whether it's a growl or a huff.
I swear that my sister's dog (purebred Samoyed), who was a talker as far as dogs go, picked up her grumbling from my Dad. If you told her to do something that she didn't want to do, she would do it but all the while making grumbling sounds sounding like she was telling you off.
Urine should be clear or slight yellow tinge. Medium- or dark-yellow means you're dehydrated.
You can't rely on that. If it's clear or pale, you're not dehydrated. The converse is not true.
This is just one indication of dehydration but you are right in saying that it's not always true. From my understanding, what you eat can influence the color as can other health issues. For an otherwise healthy person it's a good indication. Plus, if it changes to clear after drinking a lot of water, chances are that you were dehydrated.
Citation needed.
See chart at the very bottom of the article at the link below. Link also includes a table that has the recommended fluid per day based on body weight...
Note: The color may be influenced by vitamins (i.e. Vitamin B2 can add a yellow tinge) or other things that you eat.
http://www.navyfitness.org/nut...
I thought it was normal for a 2x4 to actually measure 1.5x3.5 because of the planing that happens or somesuch.
Exactly. If you want an actual 2x4 you need to buy rough cut lumber from the mill. Planing the wood then reduces the size to the dimensions you find in the hardware store.
One of my long time friends runs a lumber mill. I used to work there summers with him and his Dad, who started it. It was hard hot work but I learned a lot, including how to run logs through the mill saw to cut it into boards and how to run the planer. He and his Dad could glance at a log and know exactly how many boards he could get from it and what dimensions.
I'm not saying that the CEO being a toxic dude-bro was the sole reason that he got ousted. I'm not even saying it was the main reason. But the VCs almost certainly considered it along with all the other reasons that they already had.
Yes, the fact that he wasn't pushing for an IPO was probably a big reason. But when a company has that bad of a public image problem, it doesn't help attracting investors for an IPO.
It's always fun to equate the downfall of a large fish to the actions of a little fish, especially when you are one (I'm one too). The problem is that the big fish don't even notice the little fishes and couldn't care less about their ranting and ravings unless there is something to be gained.
In my opinion, the VCs wanted him out to go forward with an IPO. He was dead set against it The fact that the Uber culture was exposed had no bearing on him leaving. They would have gotten rid of him anyway. In my opinion, any attribution to Uber culture issues is just a smokescreen.
http://fortune.com/2016/06/09/...
it was an interesting blip in the development of GPUs.
You make it sound like PowerVR was just a competing product to the 3DFX Voodoo. They continued to make PowerVR chips long after that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR
Most of the iPhones use PowerVR (see GPU column):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_mobile_application_processors#List_of_Apple_processors
Without Apple they're now rather short on customers and in trouble. The Chinese seem to want their own processor technology so I could well see a Chinese company buying them out.
I don't ever remember PowerVR being a competitor for 3dfx Voodoo in Canada or the US. I remember Matrox and ATI being 3dfx competitors. Perhaps it was a regional thing since PowerVR is located in the UK. I had a VooDoo 2 card then upgraded to a Matrox G400.
http://www.techspot.com/articl...
Not only will they track you and spy on you. but now they'll also censor your browsing.
At least they're not just silently modifying the traffic to mislead you...yet...
Now what's that theory about all participants in capitalism requiring perfect information about the market?
It's been reported that Amazon uses algorithms to determine what price you see on their web page. I'm willing to bet that the primary use for this is for the Amazon web page to show the same price or the same price minus a certain percent as the retail outlet. This way they could avoid tripping themselves up by showing a higher price or a significantly lower price on the Amazon web page.
And how is your brain's intelligence more than "a pattern matching algorithm"? Maybe your intelligence is not much more than neurons reacting to each other based on inputs.
Because it includes the ability to produce leaps of logic and imagination that has little bearing on your experiences. If it was just a pattern matching algorithm then you would never be able to think of things beyond the patterns that you have had experience with. That's what limits today's"AI"s. They don't have an ability to learn or develop new interests on their own, they have to be fed information .
That they started to rise to prominence when they did isn't some amazing stroke of genius or luck, it was because the various technologies had reached the needed point.
Are you suggesting we'd still have smartphones now if it wasn't for Apple? ;)
Horrors.... no.... It's not a smartphone without rounded corners... (grin)
Amazon prime is like 'fast china' you can buy something for $4 you pay $4 and $4 only then it shows up at your door
I agree Amazon Prime.
The other one for me, being a Canadian and a hockey fan, is NHL TV (Game Center Live).
I get all of the NHL games, except for local blackouts. It lets me follow the Oilers even though I am on the East coast through game replays and recaps.
Seriously, it's just a pattern matching algorithm.
It's not able to do other things.
AI can both walk and chew gum at the same time.
Oh, wait, ok, maybe it's smarter than the Comrade-in-Chief, but that's still not AI.
The AI guys call them "Weak AI", fearing that they would be out of a job if anyone realized that we don't have AI yet.
https://www.techopedia.com/def...
I had a '73 LTD, that thing was a tank. Power everything and heated seats... So big, the corners had rubber bumpers because you just couldn't see them.
My Dad swore by and at his LTD station wagons. He loved those things. I'm pretty sure he cried when they stopped making them. They could haul the family, a boat, and even lumber without missing a beat. Fortunately parts were cheap because there was always something breaking down. I definitely learned a lot about car maintenance as a kid.
I also learned to drive and took my driving test using the LTD. If you could park a LTD station wagon in a city, you could park just about anything.
They were definitely built like tanks. I once drove my Dad's off the road due to black ice. It took out a small tree and hit a boulder. It took two tow trucks to get it out. All it had was a dent in the car door and the oil pan. Replaced both and it was like nothing had ever happened.
That being said, I would put it up against my Jeep Grand Cherokee any day....
So the correct answer to the problem would be to complain to the states' own legislatures, which are supposed to be more responsive to their constituents than federal organizations anyway.
Except that the States are also benefiting both by the creation of for-profit prison systems and the sharing of revenue from scams like this. In my opinion, a prison system should never be privatized. There is too much opportunity for the exploitation of prisoners.
How would an Apple AI distinguish itself from other AIs?
by taking twice as long to arrive at your destination than the google variant.
Google will have standard cup holders.
Apple will change the cup holders every year, requiring a new adapter for your Apple iCoffee Cup...
So, their office basically looks like it is a basketball court with a few card tables thrown together. Not even some external monitors. No surprise that nobody shows up to that office. At least provide some proper desks and decent KVM setups with dual monitors.
Our office is open seating but each seating area has a a group of proper office desks, every other station has dual monitors, KVM, mini-walls, and lockers. It also includes tables with bar type stools, areas with stand desks, and proper office carpeting for noise reduction. Plus we have meeting rooms and huddle rooms for when you need privacy. Everything from decor, desks, chairs, etc. is set up like a real office. The main difference being un-assigned seating and the mini-walls which creates an open space.
The WordPress office looks like an empty warehouse space with a couple of card tables thrown together. I wouldn't want to work in a space like that. Without proper carpeting and sound dampening every noise would be amplified.
Except that there are millions of eyes already on Trump's Twitter account and so this "bill" (actually just a stunt) would accomplish nothing if signed into law. Well, except set up yet another government group tasked with doing something that adds little or no value.
Not true. It would force all Presidential tweets to be archived for the public record, including tweets that might end up being deleted for various reasons. This will provide a historical record that can be analyzed by historians, researchers, and laughed at hilariously by people in 2030.... The comedic value alone makes this worth it... (grin)
The big difference post-'03 is they started 'Disneyfying' themselves, theme parks everywhere...
There are only 6 legoland theme parks.. and 4 of them were built before '03. The remaining two opened in '11 and just '17.
In my opinion, the "Disneyfying" and turnaround began with the Lego Star Wars video game in 2005. It did more, in my opinion, for the brand than anything else. Practically everyone I knew had a copy, even people who weren't big lego fans. The Star Wars co-branding, in my opinion, has been one of the biggest pieces. The Lego movies, mindstorms, etc. all add to the bottom line but it all started with the video games.
This probably means you'll have to live in a city run by Democrats, but you'll adjust.
Here is an complete list of states where the biggest city is not run by Democrats:
1. Oklahoma
You forgot one... but it's really a district, not a state....
Washington, DC
PS: Yes, I know the mayor is a democrat...
I agree that it's not illegal. But I think this is what got him fired. If I knew the son of a bitch was sending stuff to the press trying to sabotage me I'd dump him too.
I think that your timeline of events is mixed up. I believe that Comey was fired on May 9th and the Memos weren't revealed until around May 16th, a week later. And this was only after President Trump bashed him on Twitter several times....
So, no, he wasn't fired for leaking stuff to the press. He was clearly fired because President Trump wanted Comey to publicly clear his name concerning the Russia investigation.
Really douche bag. RTFA:
"According to Cox, when farmers decide to take land out of the CRP, it means that most of the money spent on environmental improvements on that land is wasted. "The benefit is lost really quickly," he says."
Farmed are pulling out of the CRP. The CRP agreements only last 10 years. After the 10 years the farmed pull out as opposed to continue.
During that 10 year span, or however long the land was set aside, there was a benefit to the environment. Yes, any future benefit disappears when the farmers voluntarily opt out of the program. But the farmer isn't to blame for the fact that the dollars were spent on a temporary fix with no permanent solution.
The dollars should have been used to buy up the land, not just rent it. For that I blame the people who decided on this program in the first place. My guess is that they might have honestly thought that we would be fixing environmental issue by now instead of making them worse....
The study cites 14-21 units/week of alcohol as "moderate consumption". That is not moderate, it's definitely into the "high" range. Thus, the conclusion is flawed when the paper talks about moderate consumption, because it isn't.
It you would read the paper, it supports the current UK recommended limits (14 units per week maximum) and posits that the current US limits are too high.
That is perfectly in line with what I've stated in this thread and in other comments on this article.
BTW, the definition of units is poorly defined here. Below is a link to the UK web page that shows what they mean. For me, I would have to be on a drinking spree to drink 6L of lager a week. I enjoy alcohol but I tend to limit it to a couple of coolers at occasional BBQs and a couple of glasses of wine at special occasions and nights out with friends.
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/a...
A search engine is worse than worthless if it allows this to happen.
Well, that's how they started out, as a search company. They started accepting money to fudge the results to push those who pay to the top and created side ads. But Ad dollars are like crack, they got addictive. Now they post the ads on the op of the search instead of the results.
By the way, they got rid of the "don't be evil" motto when they became Alphabet. Now it's "Do the Right thing". Which, if you think about it, is much more ambiguous because the right thing for shareholders isn't always compatible with the right thing for users.
This is an example where the right thing for shareholders, charging lots of money for prominent ads that show up before every search, leads to the wrong thing for users, a first page with practically no good search results and one where Ad hijacking is easy....
No, it isn't. As the OP pointed out, pizza driver get tips. Wal-mart delivery drivers wouldn't (do you tip the UPS man?)
No, but I probably should... maybe a holiday gift card... It's been forever since I stepped into a mall to buy anything...
It's more about the fact that consumers using gasoline cars do not have to pay the costs directly. Instead, the costs of their choice are socialized to everybody. If gasoline users had to pay enough gas taxes to cover all the costs associated with their use of gasoline that market would evaporate in a couple of years.
First of all, you forget that most countries charge taxes on gas purchases. In fact, these taxes were supposed to be earmarked for road improvements and to offset other expenses. The problem is that governments then discovered ways of diverting this money to other things like pet projects. Plus, the cost of scrubbers, etc. used in gas refinement are included in the price of gasoline. Gasoline is just one product of many that comes out of the refinery. The same process creates a ton of other things like propane, etc.
Second, you are a bit naive if you thing that electric car owners are paying for the full ride. We don't know what the environmental impact is going to be from producing all of those batteries and how to deal with the resulting waste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...