Yours is a reasonable conjecture, and I'd tend to agree on intuition alone. Is there proof to back it up?
What if staring at a glowing screen is the key and it doesn't matter what you stare at all day? Perhaps one day the data will support switching kids to e-paper only devices.
I also make more than what is listed in the article. But I didn't say anything because I'm an engineer and I understand what the word average means.
Job-search site Indeed crunched its Silicon Valley hiring numbers for 2018, looking at tech job searches, salaries, and employers, and found that engineers who combine tech skills with business skills as directors of product management earn the most, with an average salary of US $186,766. Last year, the gig came in as number two, at $173,556.
It's technical in that you have to use electronic lists and send lots of emails to people. If you hustle you can sell houses in the Bay Area and make 5X what an engineer does, with a whole lot less brains.
Road tax revenue does not have to come from a tax on any particular fuel and you damned well know that, ya deceptive cunt.
Voters ought to get pissed if the government uses road tax for something other than roads.
Now fuel tax can be used for lots of things, today a big part of it is roads. It sure is nice to drive over a bridge instead of fording several creeks every day. Could conceivably come from property tax or general fund. Which will be helpful in the future when few people are buying gas. Until then electric car owners get to skip out on an important tax.
The general shitty behavior of our society isn't new, although the degree waxes and wanes over the decades.
"Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."
I'm curious how you associate this with Reparations for slavery, or is that an unrelated tangent that happens to be on your mind? OK, I'll bite.
It would be very easy to work out a simple number for reparations that is mathematically fair, but would require second civil war to enforce. Does that mean that decedents of slaves were never actually wronged? I think it has more to do with money being more important than our cultural ideals of egalitarianism. Says more about us than about the people proposing reparations.
Oxygen (O2) ages cells and causes cancer as well. Demanding zero cancer in the world is unreasonable. It is OK to weigh harm and benefits and make an informed choice. The reason we're up in arms about industry lobbyists is they are hiding information from us and making all the choices. We're both under-informed and unable to choose.
The choice isn't between oil and no oil. There is a middle ground where we regulate industry, control pollution, and use resources in a way that compensates everyone for the damage it causes. Wild west, zero responsibility bullshit isn't a serious business model even if idiots are serious about defending it.
CGA was pretty common in a narrow range of years of the 1980's because it could output to a TV and users could skip buying a monitor. EGA ended up being big during the 286 era, but in terms of units didn't really sell that many. Budget machines (8088 and 8086) were shipping with CGA cards, including "SuperCGA" that provides some non-standard additional set of modes. Hercules was very popular for budget conscious people who wanted good text mode performance. The graphics of HGC was a novelty but usually not crucial for most users. (I liked it though!)
MC6845 CRTC was the heart of MDA, HGC, CGA and by extension EGA and VGA. That weird little chip was quite influential. Probably the only Motorola part.
As for 8250, it was only slightly worse than other options. I take a bigger issue with the decision to use the 8237 DMAC, it was a horrible DMA controller. But it's all Intel had in stock at the time. ISA was also an abomination. Lots of things about the PC were things that were not very forward thinking. Yet here we are, building super computing clusters out of their descendants.
Not just selling them. But building them up from components. The PC market grew organically from a cottage industry of PC clones. People who cloned other hardware, like Apple//e had a much harder time because not everything was off-the-shelf from component suppliers. Making an Amiga clone would be really hard for example, because of the rather complicated custom set of chips for it. A crappy little PC clone with CGA was a bunch of chips out of a catalog from Intel and Motorola.
We built a COMring cable, which let you run a token-ring like network over a specially constructed serial cable or over a null modem cable (if you only have 2 nodes). Then installed an IPX packet driver in order to run the game. at 57.6k and decent UARTs (16550) it played fine.
For parallel we ran LapLink cables, a type of parallel cable like you described. And transferred files with LANtastic or Laplink. Eventually a few people got 10Base2 cards and would act as gateways for those of us without network cards.
Lots of co-op games of Heretic were done our little improvised network.
C128 was designed around the perceived needs of business users. But Commodore was a gaming platform first and business users weren't really flocking to it. I guess if it were only about technology and price a C128 (1985) was cheaper than a an IBM PC AT (1984), but horribly inadequate in comparison when it came to running business software.
PCs were immortal, that's why it was successful (and why it was a terrible mistake for IBM). Thousands of PC builders and hundreds of component manufactures failed in the 80's and 90's. A PC company fails, two pop up to replace it. Commodore, Atari, and others were just one company holding together an architecture, they didn't have the luxury of failing.
Most likely reason is a firmware bug cause enough corruption that it can't even low-level format. If it were a prototype that a developer could diagnose, it would be easy for them to patch it and get it going again. But without that specialized environment you SSD and the data on it are trash.
In many ways I think I would have preferred the raw NAND systems like SmartMedia (now obsolete), where the host had the real brains and the media was as primitive as possible. SmartMedia formatting was about conforming to a software standard on the host side and was managed by a driver. A real driver that a could be debugged with ordinary tools, not some obscure firmware embedded in a device.
You don't have to use arbitration if PayPal breaks the law. And that includes negligence. It'll be the civil court system and it's probably not worth attempting as an individual unless you lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
For small amounts it might be fun to take PayPal to small claims court in any state they do business. Depending on your state, it's no skin off you back if the case doesn't work out. And PayPal would have to bring in a lawyer to represent them, costing them probably more than they owe you. Logically they should settle once a hearing is schedule, and save themselves a lot of money. But admittedly corporations can't be trusted to behave in a rational way.
Easier to convince companies to buy stuff that is new and shiny. Technical merits aren't even part of the equation.
Package a simple protocol and collection of thin clients, and with the right marketing you can dominate the team communication business. Or be yet another player in a market crammed full of wannabes. Team chat services is a terrible business model, and really companies shouldn't pay for it. The worst possible option for end users is for this to be a SaaS, which is exactly what Slack is.
I give Slack 10 years before it fades away, the only chance it has is if it is bought by Cisco or someone equally evil.
Unfortunately the reality is people work a portion of their day off the clock in Vietnam. So they get a double whammy of lower effective pay and having to work longer hours. You can cite the official laws all you want, but legal code doesn't necessarily reflect reality. In Vietnam the local municipalities are corrupt and the national ministries ignore the plight of most ordinary folks. One party states are bad news for the proletariat.
Mexico's minimum wage is horrible too, I think it works out to around $140/month last I checked. In the US they can make that much in a week. They can often bring home a year's pay by working under-the-table in the US for 3 months. A good factory job in Mexico pays substantial more than the minimum wage. The working conditions are OK, but not great. There is a lot of government oversight and interest in factory conditions because they do want to avoid PR scandals there. Agricultural working conditions in Mexico are well below what the US would consider acceptable (downright illegal if done here)
I agree. I'm initially intended to comment on why Mexico might be a poor choice, but then I went back on my own thought because it might still be a viable choice for similar tech companies.
Advantage of Vietnam is it has no labor laws and fewer environmental regulations then Mexico. Weird how communist countries turned into the libertarian ideal where everyone is free to choose if they want to work without any regulations or if they don't want to eat.
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Yours is a reasonable conjecture, and I'd tend to agree on intuition alone. Is there proof to back it up?
What if staring at a glowing screen is the key and it doesn't matter what you stare at all day? Perhaps one day the data will support switching kids to e-paper only devices.
I also make more than what is listed in the article. But I didn't say anything because I'm an engineer and I understand what the word average means.
Job-search site Indeed crunched its Silicon Valley hiring numbers for 2018, looking at tech job searches, salaries, and employers, and found that engineers who combine tech skills with business skills as directors of product management earn the most, with an average salary of US $186,766. Last year, the gig came in as number two, at $173,556.
It's technical in that you have to use electronic lists and send lots of emails to people. If you hustle you can sell houses in the Bay Area and make 5X what an engineer does, with a whole lot less brains.
There is a certain level of self-respect in maintaining professional behavior.
Road tax revenue does not have to come from a tax on any particular fuel and you damned well know that, ya deceptive cunt.
Voters ought to get pissed if the government uses road tax for something other than roads.
Now fuel tax can be used for lots of things, today a big part of it is roads. It sure is nice to drive over a bridge instead of fording several creeks every day. Could conceivably come from property tax or general fund. Which will be helpful in the future when few people are buying gas. Until then electric car owners get to skip out on an important tax.
The general shitty behavior of our society isn't new, although the degree waxes and wanes over the decades.
"Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."
-- Thomas Hobbes; Leviathan c.1651
I'm curious how you associate this with Reparations for slavery, or is that an unrelated tangent that happens to be on your mind? OK, I'll bite.
It would be very easy to work out a simple number for reparations that is mathematically fair, but would require second civil war to enforce. Does that mean that decedents of slaves were never actually wronged? I think it has more to do with money being more important than our cultural ideals of egalitarianism. Says more about us than about the people proposing reparations.
Damn gas tax. Having paved roads is so unnecessary and is part of the liberal agenda of dependency.
I'll simply use my 4x4 on dirt roads or pay tolls along a beautiful private road system.
Oxygen (O2) ages cells and causes cancer as well. Demanding zero cancer in the world is unreasonable. It is OK to weigh harm and benefits and make an informed choice. The reason we're up in arms about industry lobbyists is they are hiding information from us and making all the choices. We're both under-informed and unable to choose.
The choice isn't between oil and no oil. There is a middle ground where we regulate industry, control pollution, and use resources in a way that compensates everyone for the damage it causes. Wild west, zero responsibility bullshit isn't a serious business model even if idiots are serious about defending it.
We have a culture where we tolerate lying when someone is trying to make a quick buck.
Businesses should tell the truth? Why do you hate capitalism? insert other facetious arguments here, etc
CGA was pretty common in a narrow range of years of the 1980's because it could output to a TV and users could skip buying a monitor. EGA ended up being big during the 286 era, but in terms of units didn't really sell that many. Budget machines (8088 and 8086) were shipping with CGA cards, including "SuperCGA" that provides some non-standard additional set of modes. Hercules was very popular for budget conscious people who wanted good text mode performance. The graphics of HGC was a novelty but usually not crucial for most users. (I liked it though!)
MC6845 CRTC was the heart of MDA, HGC, CGA and by extension EGA and VGA. That weird little chip was quite influential. Probably the only Motorola part.
As for 8250, it was only slightly worse than other options. I take a bigger issue with the decision to use the 8237 DMAC, it was a horrible DMA controller. But it's all Intel had in stock at the time. ISA was also an abomination. Lots of things about the PC were things that were not very forward thinking. Yet here we are, building super computing clusters out of their descendants.
There isn't enough RAM in the universe for even 1 megapython.
I'd like it to be made out of helium or something really light. Then I can finally have literal cloud computing.
Not just selling them. But building them up from components. The PC market grew organically from a cottage industry of PC clones. People who cloned other hardware, like Apple //e had a much harder time because not everything was off-the-shelf from component suppliers. Making an Amiga clone would be really hard for example, because of the rather complicated custom set of chips for it. A crappy little PC clone with CGA was a bunch of chips out of a catalog from Intel and Motorola.
We built a COMring cable, which let you run a token-ring like network over a specially constructed serial cable or over a null modem cable (if you only have 2 nodes). Then installed an IPX packet driver in order to run the game. at 57.6k and decent UARTs (16550) it played fine.
For parallel we ran LapLink cables, a type of parallel cable like you described. And transferred files with LANtastic or Laplink. Eventually a few people got 10Base2 cards and would act as gateways for those of us without network cards.
Lots of co-op games of Heretic were done our little improvised network.
C128 was designed around the perceived needs of business users. But Commodore was a gaming platform first and business users weren't really flocking to it. I guess if it were only about technology and price a C128 (1985) was cheaper than a an IBM PC AT (1984), but horribly inadequate in comparison when it came to running business software.
PCs were immortal, that's why it was successful (and why it was a terrible mistake for IBM). Thousands of PC builders and hundreds of component manufactures failed in the 80's and 90's. A PC company fails, two pop up to replace it. Commodore, Atari, and others were just one company holding together an architecture, they didn't have the luxury of failing.
Most likely reason is a firmware bug cause enough corruption that it can't even low-level format. If it were a prototype that a developer could diagnose, it would be easy for them to patch it and get it going again. But without that specialized environment you SSD and the data on it are trash.
In many ways I think I would have preferred the raw NAND systems like SmartMedia (now obsolete), where the host had the real brains and the media was as primitive as possible. SmartMedia formatting was about conforming to a software standard on the host side and was managed by a driver. A real driver that a could be debugged with ordinary tools, not some obscure firmware embedded in a device.
You don't have to use arbitration if PayPal breaks the law. And that includes negligence. It'll be the civil court system and it's probably not worth attempting as an individual unless you lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
For small amounts it might be fun to take PayPal to small claims court in any state they do business. Depending on your state, it's no skin off you back if the case doesn't work out. And PayPal would have to bring in a lawyer to represent them, costing them probably more than they owe you. Logically they should settle once a hearing is schedule, and save themselves a lot of money. But admittedly corporations can't be trusted to behave in a rational way.
Easier to convince companies to buy stuff that is new and shiny. Technical merits aren't even part of the equation.
Package a simple protocol and collection of thin clients, and with the right marketing you can dominate the team communication business. Or be yet another player in a market crammed full of wannabes. Team chat services is a terrible business model, and really companies shouldn't pay for it. The worst possible option for end users is for this to be a SaaS, which is exactly what Slack is.
I give Slack 10 years before it fades away, the only chance it has is if it is bought by Cisco or someone equally evil.
Unfortunately the reality is people work a portion of their day off the clock in Vietnam. So they get a double whammy of lower effective pay and having to work longer hours. You can cite the official laws all you want, but legal code doesn't necessarily reflect reality. In Vietnam the local municipalities are corrupt and the national ministries ignore the plight of most ordinary folks. One party states are bad news for the proletariat.
Mexico's minimum wage is horrible too, I think it works out to around $140/month last I checked. In the US they can make that much in a week. They can often bring home a year's pay by working under-the-table in the US for 3 months. A good factory job in Mexico pays substantial more than the minimum wage. The working conditions are OK, but not great. There is a lot of government oversight and interest in factory conditions because they do want to avoid PR scandals there. Agricultural working conditions in Mexico are well below what the US would consider acceptable (downright illegal if done here)
Organizations with more than about 10 people in them turn shitty real fast. Everything is great on a small scale, especially beer.
I agree. I'm initially intended to comment on why Mexico might be a poor choice, but then I went back on my own thought because it might still be a viable choice for similar tech companies.
Advantage of Vietnam is it has no labor laws and fewer environmental regulations then Mexico. Weird how communist countries turned into the libertarian ideal where everyone is free to choose if they want to work without any regulations or if they don't want to eat.
Never RTFA finally pays off.