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  1. if you want to be paid for your results and not your time

    This is called a salary. Who in tech is working hourly? It's not just free overtime.

  2. Re:Like T-Mobile did with 4G on AT&T To Roll Out 5G Network That's Not Actually 5G (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    And....AT&T did this next...so this is really not new for them.

  3. Re:sega channel on Xbox Chief: We Need To Create a Netflix of Video Games (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And Nintendo Japan did something similar with satellite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  4. Re:No different than Trump on the bathroom scale on Computer Program Prevents 116-Year-Old Woman From Getting Pension (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    0mg is lighter than I would have expected.

  5. Depends on the size of the bank.

  6. Walled Garden Failure on Apple Wants To Turn Its Music App Into a One-Stop Shop For Pop Culture (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Netflix is not the walled garden that Apple wants. They produce their own content, sure. But you can use it on virtually any device, provided that you accept the DRM. What plays Apple content? iTunes, iPhones, and Apple TV.

  7. Re:Article sounds like B.S. on Windows is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (bit.ly) · · Score: 1

    You probably want the metadata on the source - there's a lot of useful information you can store there and it's much more onerous to strip it after every edit. It should only be stripped during compile time. Making this the default but allowing full control is a much better way of handling that.

  8. Re: Filed under: Nobody needs this! on Amazon Wants To Put a Camera and Microphone in Your Bedroom (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have a single rod, a nice closet system would make a huge difference: https://www.containerstore.com...

    We designed a custom setup with one rod across the top (up pretty high with some unusable shelving above the rod), and a lower rod on the left and right third. Middle is long hang / shelving / drawers. There are cheaper options elsewhere, but nothing beats their in-store software other than not being able to control the software myself.

  9. Re:It's pretty simple on Energy Star Program For Homes And Appliances Is On Trump's Chopping Block (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That it's truly meaningless and that a federal labeling program shouldn't exist - because it's mostly marketing fluff.

  10. Re:It's pretty simple on Energy Star Program For Homes And Appliances Is On Trump's Chopping Block (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And non-GMO is hard to truly verify, since cross-pollination with a neighboring farm is hard to avoid sometimes.

    That and standard cross-breeding nets you what most people should consider a GMO.

  11. Re:There should be a law... on Amazon Wants To Put a Camera and Microphone in Your Bedroom (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They launched it during April...just a bit late.

    Also in late April Fool's Day news, Nordstrom now has fake "muddy" blue jeans for $425.

  12. Re: Filed under: Nobody needs this! on Amazon Wants To Put a Camera and Microphone in Your Bedroom (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "how does this look?"

    Answer: it's too late now, you already bought it.

  13. Time to give Mythbuntu a chance? Or any distro with MythTV, but I think that gives you the most out of box help. I've been using MythTV for almost a decade now, and it definitely requires tweaking - but probably less so than blocking driver updates constantly.

  14. The big new feature according to their changelog was "Creators Update support."

    Which means they tested a preview build and Microsoft must have changed a lot after that.

  15. Re:That's the big problem... on Five Years Later, Legal Megaupload Data Is Still Trapped On Dead Servers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    An SD card is not even a medium-term backup. I'd trust a magnetic charge on a platter over an electrostatic charge held in limbo for months or years.

  16. Re:That's the big problem... on Five Years Later, Legal Megaupload Data Is Still Trapped On Dead Servers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Where in my comment did I write that I "hate Apple"?

    The English language doesn't have a word for the plural "you" except in the American South. I don't mean you , personally.

    A feature I don't use because I regularly move data off of my iPhone on a regular basis.

    Again, not advice specifically for you.

  17. If you're saving for any embedded asset. It's good for more than just web, because you can evaluate the output and make sure the quality is what you want.

  18. Re:How does it "eat up CPU cycles"? on Windows is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (bit.ly) · · Score: 1

    From the hard drive to RAM. Stupid typing.

  19. Re:How does it "eat up CPU cycles"? on Windows is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (bit.ly) · · Score: 1

    During the very quick process of transferring the data from the CPU to RAM. Though with bus mastering, I'm not sure you'd get even one more CPU cycle even with additional KB of data to be loaded (I'm not sure what goes on down at that level).

  20. Re:Article sounds like B.S. on Windows is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (bit.ly) · · Score: 1

    Programs have graphic resources embedded inside them all the time. They would take up a lot less space without unnecessary/unusable metadata. This stuff should be automatically stripped during the process of embedding anyway.

  21. Re:That's the big problem... on Five Years Later, Legal Megaupload Data Is Still Trapped On Dead Servers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You can hate Apple all you want, but at least they offer a reasonable price for their online backups. $0.99/mo. for up to 50GB. $2.99/mo. for up to 200GB. 5GB or under is free.

    I tell almost anyone with a nearly full phone to sign up - because they can opt to store fewer of the photos on the device itself. This doesn't preclude a local backup, but that will never happen with most users.

  22. Re:law is sadly funny on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And it was even a lowercase E.

  23. Re:Vigorous debate? Surely you jest on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    So going back to the original comment that started this thread offshoot.

    In many of the important ways, [libertarianism] is the same as [republicans]. Both want to let corporations to have the ultimate power over the people by destroying the parts of the government that interfere.

    I think you're agreeing with my main premise. There are a lot of wolves in sheep's clothing under the umbrella of libertarianism, too. But as there's no true Scotsman, I just have to accept that they are what they say they are.

  24. Re:low latency and guns - correlation or causation on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    correlation of population density.

  25. Re:So move to Chicago. on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    If you run your own continuous fiber optic cable directly from Hawaii to Chicago, you should be able to get sub-50ms. pings. It's all those pesky hops and retransmits that get in the way.