After working for a couple weeks, I figured out one day that I was probably pulling in less than 2$ an hour because I was so slow at it.
And if they weren't shady, they'd be legally required to pay you the difference to get you to minimum wage (at least in the US). They could certainly fire you when they realize you aren't worth it, but minimum wage should be all yours.
Stream it? Just live trace it as cartoon animation and make it a Facebook game. If Farmville is any indication, we'll see free workers freely recruiting more free workers.
Go start a company. Entrepreneurs are the only men in tech that people know about. If asked, I could maybe name Grace Hopper, but CEOs of eBay or Yahoo aren't really "in tech" they are in "being CEO."
How cute. Google already does. Only without the housing - they have homeless employees that live on campus.
Facebook at least wants to give the illusion that their employees are free to go as far as 100 ft to home. Actually, Google does have its own housing project but they seem to not be that interested.
So wait... You only read garbage and toss it off as childish when there's way better material out there? I don't even read comics and I know that's shortsighted.
That's actually great advice. I'm not into comic books and I would assume they had all died out or are only in very large metro area. Doing a little research or driving to get to one and you can see what's featured and get a real quick glance at a lot of different options would really be worth it.
On the same subject, I've seen what you had with OS X. The computer had no recovery partition, so it somehow decided to wipe the main OS/user partition and replace that with a recovery partition during the update. And overwrote user data. And then couldn't find anywhere to install the OS update. Had to use data carving with PhotoRec just to get their photos back.
Most of the issue seems to be with the partition being in GPT, and with a special "size" of the rescue- vs. os-partition.
Have seen this, but with earlier releases. If you could roll it back / repair and make the system partition at least 500MB using something like GParted it will usually upgrade just fine.
Yeah, I think they just plain assumed that nobody installed Windows 7 in EFI mode because the hardware support was limited when 7 first came out. Because 7 only made something like a 100MB system reserved partition when it partitions the drive.
Amazing you even made it that far after an upgrade from 7. Of most of the computers I've dealt with, a clean install was required around the first anniversary update because it would fail to ever install - but not break anything.
Buying a new computer would be silly, since a clean install would also fix it.
Whether congress agrees has nothing to do with it. The fact that it was enacted without any oversight provisions makes it de facto unconstitutional. The fact that it lets the executive branch effectively act as the legislative branch during peacetime is also the same.
*Yes, unfixable, the update destroys the partition
Haven't seen that. Have seen drive letters get swapped around, USB keyboards and mice stop working, and all sorts of other things. Most I've seen were eventually fixable - but involved manually uninstalling updates using DISM in the preboot environment.
Do you dual-boot? GPT or MBR? Any strange hardware? Genuinely curious.
Sounds like the install process involves changing so many files, that just creating a duplicate Windows folder with hard links to unchanged files and pre-copying the new files would make the process go a lot faster. On reboot, just rename Windows to Windows.old, rename temp directory, and move updated registry and user settings into place.
Why just about every single file needs to be replaced during these upgrades is the real question.
It's still not a valid "national emergency." Renewed or not, this is a presidential power that has been granted too much overreach with no oversight. The order in August is just as bad. As is the original declaration of emergency by Obama in 2015. Being able to declare just about anything an "emergency" in order to have dictatorial powers is just plain fundamentally against the nature of our government's design. I could only hope that this is the last straw that finally gets attention at the issue, but it's unlikely.
I had to scroll a long way to find this post, but it seems so obvious. Literally, what, one day after the US tries to make Venezuela's cryptocurrency illegal?
This seems to be a case of the president saying a law should be enforced that most citizens wouldn't have known was even in existence
No, it's not. The law that's in existence gives the president emergency powers during a national emergency to enact things like this. It's definitely in existence and used to great effect. It was used 6 times between 1977 and 2000. All but one of those is easily obvious in matching the intent and scope of the law. In the last 18 years, it's been used 22 more times. The validity of the "national emergency" in question on most of those is very doubtful.
The point, though, is that this isn't the president using his enforcement powers. It's declaring a false "national emergency" to claim power that they should have no rights to. And emergency powers tend to go beyond the law because it's supposed to be a temporary emergency where congress would act too slowly to ensure the safety of the American people. And yet this national emergency in question was declared in 2015 by our former president. 3 years is quite a while for a temporary emergency with no perceivable threat to national security.
I think this is a variation of Dunning-Kruger. Lower-paid workers cannot understand what value the higher paid workers actually provide. Sometimes the higher pay is valid, sometimes not. But unless you are already an expert, you won't know. So while you help with race/gender pay inequality, you're also making a hostile work environment for managers and subordinates.
Both "sides" appear to like it. This was handed from Obama to Trump and both have some severe overstep on executive orders. In either case, I've disliked any sort of unchecked power in government - and executive orders were supposed to be part of the checks and balances against legislative power (mostly regarding selective enforcement of the law - which is an executive branch privilege).
That makes him able to make an executive order. It doesn't make it a law or any American's actions illegal. Obama calling Venezuala's situation a "national emergency" for us is highly questionable - and from there, that makes anything predicated on that really shaky to start with.
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If you're rich, you already can: https://www.engadget.com/2013/...
Psychopaths and sociopaths make up a large percentage of CEOs, regardless of gender.
Melinda Gates does great stuff--but she's not a tech leader--so different category.
Oh, she certainly is a tech leader. Unless you think Microsoft Bob isn't visionary.
After working for a couple weeks, I figured out one day that I was probably pulling in less than 2$ an hour because I was so slow at it.
And if they weren't shady, they'd be legally required to pay you the difference to get you to minimum wage (at least in the US). They could certainly fire you when they realize you aren't worth it, but minimum wage should be all yours.
Stream it? Just live trace it as cartoon animation and make it a Facebook game. If Farmville is any indication, we'll see free workers freely recruiting more free workers.
Go start a company. Entrepreneurs are the only men in tech that people know about. If asked, I could maybe name Grace Hopper, but CEOs of eBay or Yahoo aren't really "in tech" they are in "being CEO."
If google did this
How cute. Google already does. Only without the housing - they have homeless employees that live on campus.
Facebook at least wants to give the illusion that their employees are free to go as far as 100 ft to home. Actually, Google does have its own housing project but they seem to not be that interested.
More valuable than their employees' cash, they want more of their employees' time.
So wait... You only read garbage and toss it off as childish when there's way better material out there? I don't even read comics and I know that's shortsighted.
That's actually great advice. I'm not into comic books and I would assume they had all died out or are only in very large metro area. Doing a little research or driving to get to one and you can see what's featured and get a real quick glance at a lot of different options would really be worth it.
On the same subject, I've seen what you had with OS X. The computer had no recovery partition, so it somehow decided to wipe the main OS/user partition and replace that with a recovery partition during the update. And overwrote user data. And then couldn't find anywhere to install the OS update. Had to use data carving with PhotoRec just to get their photos back.
Most of the issue seems to be with the partition being in GPT, and with a special "size" of the rescue- vs. os-partition.
Have seen this, but with earlier releases. If you could roll it back / repair and make the system partition at least 500MB using something like GParted it will usually upgrade just fine.
Yeah, I think they just plain assumed that nobody installed Windows 7 in EFI mode because the hardware support was limited when 7 first came out. Because 7 only made something like a 100MB system reserved partition when it partitions the drive.
Amazing you even made it that far after an upgrade from 7. Of most of the computers I've dealt with, a clean install was required around the first anniversary update because it would fail to ever install - but not break anything.
Buying a new computer would be silly, since a clean install would also fix it.
Whether congress agrees has nothing to do with it. The fact that it was enacted without any oversight provisions makes it de facto unconstitutional. The fact that it lets the executive branch effectively act as the legislative branch during peacetime is also the same.
If your customers aren't going for the upsell, you just degrade the lowball product until they do.
Amazon Prime Shipping in a nutshell.
*Yes, unfixable, the update destroys the partition
Haven't seen that. Have seen drive letters get swapped around, USB keyboards and mice stop working, and all sorts of other things. Most I've seen were eventually fixable - but involved manually uninstalling updates using DISM in the preboot environment.
Do you dual-boot? GPT or MBR? Any strange hardware? Genuinely curious.
Sounds like the install process involves changing so many files, that just creating a duplicate Windows folder with hard links to unchanged files and pre-copying the new files would make the process go a lot faster. On reboot, just rename Windows to Windows.old, rename temp directory, and move updated registry and user settings into place.
Why just about every single file needs to be replaced during these upgrades is the real question.
It's still not a valid "national emergency." Renewed or not, this is a presidential power that has been granted too much overreach with no oversight. The order in August is just as bad. As is the original declaration of emergency by Obama in 2015. Being able to declare just about anything an "emergency" in order to have dictatorial powers is just plain fundamentally against the nature of our government's design. I could only hope that this is the last straw that finally gets attention at the issue, but it's unlikely.
I had to scroll a long way to find this post, but it seems so obvious. Literally, what, one day after the US tries to make Venezuela's cryptocurrency illegal?
Almost everyone that uses Bitcoin needs lots of other people to have a copy of the blockchain or their Bitcoin is useless.
This seems to be a case of the president saying a law should be enforced that most citizens wouldn't have known was even in existence
No, it's not. The law that's in existence gives the president emergency powers during a national emergency to enact things like this. It's definitely in existence and used to great effect. It was used 6 times between 1977 and 2000. All but one of those is easily obvious in matching the intent and scope of the law. In the last 18 years, it's been used 22 more times. The validity of the "national emergency" in question on most of those is very doubtful.
The point, though, is that this isn't the president using his enforcement powers. It's declaring a false "national emergency" to claim power that they should have no rights to. And emergency powers tend to go beyond the law because it's supposed to be a temporary emergency where congress would act too slowly to ensure the safety of the American people. And yet this national emergency in question was declared in 2015 by our former president. 3 years is quite a while for a temporary emergency with no perceivable threat to national security.
I think this is a variation of Dunning-Kruger. Lower-paid workers cannot understand what value the higher paid workers actually provide. Sometimes the higher pay is valid, sometimes not. But unless you are already an expert, you won't know. So while you help with race/gender pay inequality, you're also making a hostile work environment for managers and subordinates.
Both "sides" appear to like it. This was handed from Obama to Trump and both have some severe overstep on executive orders. In either case, I've disliked any sort of unchecked power in government - and executive orders were supposed to be part of the checks and balances against legislative power (mostly regarding selective enforcement of the law - which is an executive branch privilege).
That makes him able to make an executive order. It doesn't make it a law or any American's actions illegal. Obama calling Venezuala's situation a "national emergency" for us is highly questionable - and from there, that makes anything predicated on that really shaky to start with.
legally
Funny word you chose. Now cite the law in question.