Since they are making a change to the material design of Chrome, does that mean it will now be called Brushed Aluminum instead? Perhaps Oil-Rubbed Bronze?
Oddly, both come with the disclaimer that they're "not intended for use in diagnosis, cure, treatment or prevention of disease or other medical conditions."
I bet without this disclaimer, the PC would be subject to FDA regulations, and require clinical trials.
I don't know how things work in the US but most countries already have a system in place for doing assessments: driving tests, welfare assessments, social services, etc.
In the US driving and access to social services are considered privileges, and can therefore be easily denied. Firearms are considered a right under the 2nd amendment. So it's the responsibility for the government to provide a good reason to deny access to firearms. Where most other countries it's up to the citizens to provide a good reason for ownership.
I've known several Indian colleagues that gave up on the American dating scene and had their parents arrange a marriage. However, I know some that have been very successful with the American way of courtship (mostly women). However, one colleague of mine had quite a bit of drama in his family when he married a girl he met from another caste.
My main complaint about licensing isn't the fact it exists. It's that some of the requirements to obtain a license are needless. If you can pass an exam, and pay minimal fee, you should get a license. However, there are some States/Trades that require a diploma/certificate in order to sit for an exam. (e.g. you have to have a diploma from a cosmetology school before you can take the cosmetology exam, and therefore get a license) This is just a money grab for the institutions providing those diplomas/certifications.
There need to be provisions for on the job training.
If they were to write the amendment in today's conversational language, it would go like this: "Because a standing professional military, even if just local in scope, looks like an inevitable necessity, nobody with government power should use that as an excuse to infringe on a citizen's right to personally keep and bear their own arms."
This is a good interpretation. The purpose of the 2nd amendment is to prevent a fall into military dictatorship, or similar breeches of the social contract.
The question is, how do we balance the risk of falling to tyranny, versus the risk of random violence? I never hear a rational discussion on this topic. It's either, "you don't need guns because military and police..." or "Everyone needs guns because the military and police can't save you..."
Win7 had the advantage of arriving after all those companies fixed their software. I'd imagine tht had far more to do with it than "MS pouring in resources".
Yes! Vista was an incredible improvement in security compared to Microsoft's previous operating systems. It locked down the OS core functionality and pushed everything into a separate user space. The same way Linux does.
Of course, this means the days of programs accessing the registry every time they opened were over. (I actually have one program that still does this, it's a pain). Most of the issues wern't Vista's fault at all. Those apps should have never had that much access. Microsoft finally did the right thing and locked them out. It was painful, but for the greater good.
So much tech is in software development because it's cheap to develop and the returns are huge. I respect SpaceX because they are taking huge financial risks to develop groundbreaking hardware. You just don't see that in the "information age".
I want a comfortable private workspace with decent temperature control and access to decent coffee/snacks.
A few years ago my company bought a bunch of trendy new office furniture, and then turned down the heat to 65 deg F, and took away the coffee machines.
The lower taxes and cheaper living in those states come with the trade-off of lower spending on education, infrastructure and cultural institutions all of which are very important to the highly sought out employees companies like Amazon need.
There are cities in the Midwest. Most of the land-grant universities are there. It's not all cornfields.
But human nature being what it is, humans are inherently resistant to change and there are enumerable ways for people to sabotage new systems and make sure they don't work.
That tends to make it very difficult for managers to tell if the changes that were made were good or bad.
But I think some of the "sit on the loveseat" is driven by management's own disconnection with how actual workers get actual work done. They "work" in jobs that mostly consist of going to meetings and writing reports about meetings and arranging for informal meetings with other managers. To them, "work" is kind of an extended cocktail party, except with frappacinos, kambucha or giant water bottles, so sitting around on couches or in non-office type spaces makes complete sense.
Yes. I had this discussion with a technician once.
He said to me, "As you move up the chain of command, you do less and less real work."
I told him, "Your work changes as you move up. You do less value added work, like building things, and more communication."
"So the CEO does nothing but goes to meetings all day?"
It absolutely sucks. I'm only convinced management does it because they know it pisses everyone off and they want to downsize without firing anyone so they pull passive aggressive shit like this
This kind of crap is going on everywhere. Here in the Midwest, companies are changing their offices because, "It's the trend on the west coast."
My company bought new office furniture five years ago because "the trend" was to move to smaller desks. Some of the furniture in the collaborative work spaces now has a thick layer of dust because it's gone unused.
Now we're getting a new office layout this year. No more assigned desk! Sit where ever you want. How is that supposed to work?
No desks available? Sit down on the loveseat. (Seriously, this is an office. Not a dorm!) If you don't like the loveseat, there will be an area with different levels, like bleachers, or that episode from Seinfeld.
I just want a comfortable chair to sit on, a place to put my stuff, HVAC, a fridge, a microwave, and a restroom. Half the time that stuff doesn't work.
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Six sigma is 3.4 defects per million. Per the GP post, none of the major manufacturers are requiring that, except Lotus?
Seriously, I don't think Lotus has made a million cars in the entire history of the company. And they certainly aren't known for their quality.
...I read an article about this exact same technology. What improvements have been made since then?
...they're getting rid of all of the ads?
Since they are making a change to the material design of Chrome, does that mean it will now be called Brushed Aluminum instead? Perhaps Oil-Rubbed Bronze?
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In a city where a six figure salary can barely get by, I'm not surprised there is a crime problem.
Oddly, both come with the disclaimer that they're "not intended for use in diagnosis, cure, treatment or prevention of disease or other medical conditions."
I bet without this disclaimer, the PC would be subject to FDA regulations, and require clinical trials.
I don't know how things work in the US but most countries already have a system in place for doing assessments: driving tests, welfare assessments, social services, etc.
In the US driving and access to social services are considered privileges, and can therefore be easily denied. Firearms are considered a right under the 2nd amendment. So it's the responsibility for the government to provide a good reason to deny access to firearms. Where most other countries it's up to the citizens to provide a good reason for ownership.
I've known several Indian colleagues that gave up on the American dating scene and had their parents arrange a marriage. However, I know some that have been very successful with the American way of courtship (mostly women). However, one colleague of mine had quite a bit of drama in his family when he married a girl he met from another caste.
They all seem happy regardless of how they met.
My main complaint about licensing isn't the fact it exists. It's that some of the requirements to obtain a license are needless. If you can pass an exam, and pay minimal fee, you should get a license. However, there are some States/Trades that require a diploma/certificate in order to sit for an exam. (e.g. you have to have a diploma from a cosmetology school before you can take the cosmetology exam, and therefore get a license) This is just a money grab for the institutions providing those diplomas/certifications.
There need to be provisions for on the job training.
If they were to write the amendment in today's conversational language, it would go like this: "Because a standing professional military, even if just local in scope, looks like an inevitable necessity, nobody with government power should use that as an excuse to infringe on a citizen's right to personally keep and bear their own arms."
This is a good interpretation. The purpose of the 2nd amendment is to prevent a fall into military dictatorship, or similar breeches of the social contract.
The question is, how do we balance the risk of falling to tyranny, versus the risk of random violence? I never hear a rational discussion on this topic. It's either, "you don't need guns because military and police..." or "Everyone needs guns because the military and police can't save you..."
My only complaint about Mint is the upgrade path is more complex than other distributions. It's basically a clean install.
Or, ironically, the French.
Based on the score, no one gets this joke. However, it is hilarious
See, France has been a major contributor to the development of the metric system, and is the keeper of the international prototype kilogram.
Vietnam was a French colony, known as French Indochina, until a bunch of Viatnamese farmers kicked them out in the First Indochina War.
Using plugins is a good idea, but I find killing the traffic further upstream is more effective.
Win7 had the advantage of arriving after all those companies fixed their software. I'd imagine tht had far more to do with it than "MS pouring in resources".
Yes! Vista was an incredible improvement in security compared to Microsoft's previous operating systems. It locked down the OS core functionality and pushed everything into a separate user space. The same way Linux does.
Of course, this means the days of programs accessing the registry every time they opened were over. (I actually have one program that still does this, it's a pain). Most of the issues wern't Vista's fault at all. Those apps should have never had that much access. Microsoft finally did the right thing and locked them out. It was painful, but for the greater good.
While perhaps more of a car manufacturer than tech company, I'd say that they still qualify at least partially as the latter.
Once upon a time, technology referred to any application of science for commercial purposes. Apparently, it only refers to software now.
Tesla is definitely a technology company BTW.
So much tech is in software development because it's cheap to develop and the returns are huge. I respect SpaceX because they are taking huge financial risks to develop groundbreaking hardware. You just don't see that in the "information age".
LibreOffice is perfectly fine for 99% of use cases unless you really absolutely need that ActiveX sync to Lotus Notes 5.x for mail merging.
I'll settle for the F4 key locking cells the same way it does in Excel.
I want a comfortable private workspace with decent temperature control and access to decent coffee/snacks.
A few years ago my company bought a bunch of trendy new office furniture, and then turned down the heat to 65 deg F, and took away the coffee machines.
There was a revolt...
The lower taxes and cheaper living in those states come with the trade-off of lower spending on education, infrastructure and cultural institutions all of which are very important to the highly sought out employees companies like Amazon need.
There are cities in the Midwest. Most of the land-grant universities are there. It's not all cornfields.
But human nature being what it is, humans are inherently resistant to change and there are enumerable ways for people to sabotage new systems and make sure they don't work.
That tends to make it very difficult for managers to tell if the changes that were made were good or bad.
But I think some of the "sit on the loveseat" is driven by management's own disconnection with how actual workers get actual work done. They "work" in jobs that mostly consist of going to meetings and writing reports about meetings and arranging for informal meetings with other managers. To them, "work" is kind of an extended cocktail party, except with frappacinos, kambucha or giant water bottles, so sitting around on couches or in non-office type spaces makes complete sense.
Yes. I had this discussion with a technician once.
He said to me, "As you move up the chain of command, you do less and less real work."
I told him, "Your work changes as you move up. You do less value added work, like building things, and more communication."
"So the CEO does nothing but goes to meetings all day?"
"Yup"
Don't forget a coffee machine. I lost that with my last career move. I miss it.
They tried taking away our coffee machines! That didn't last...
It absolutely sucks. I'm only convinced management does it because they know it pisses everyone off and they want to downsize without firing anyone so they pull passive aggressive shit like this
The jokes on them when they have to foot the bill for the repetitive strain injury claims.
This kind of crap is going on everywhere. Here in the Midwest, companies are changing their offices because, "It's the trend on the west coast."
My company bought new office furniture five years ago because "the trend" was to move to smaller desks. Some of the furniture in the collaborative work spaces now has a thick layer of dust because it's gone unused.
Now we're getting a new office layout this year. No more assigned desk! Sit where ever you want. How is that supposed to work?
No desks available? Sit down on the loveseat. (Seriously, this is an office. Not a dorm!) If you don't like the loveseat, there will be an area with different levels, like bleachers, or that episode from Seinfeld.
I just want a comfortable chair to sit on, a place to put my stuff, HVAC, a fridge, a microwave, and a restroom. Half the time that stuff doesn't work.