According to the article, the 500-year film was developed in the 1990s, when microfilm was being phased out everywhere. That doesn't leave a lot of 500-year microfilm out there!
Your reasons are on target. Android may be Linux, but it is completely controlled by Google. Yeah, I know, you can download it and make your own custom version, but good luck getting anyone else to use your custom version! AND it has none of the one-off options of Linux, like "zoom maps out flat or spherical."
The hardest part of programming is not the coding. It's deciding exactly what you want the software to do! This is called engineering.
In a way, it's like road building. The hard part is not moving the dirt around and pouring concrete. The hard part is deciding where you want the road to go, buying the land where it will go, putting up with people who don't want the road nearby.
In the bad old days of Basic, software structure and layers were non-existent. Good luck trying to reverse-engineer somebody else's old code! Today, programming has become much better structured, making it far easier to maintain and extend. There's no way I want to go back!
This is precisely what keeps Linux from going mainstream: it allows every nerd to have their little special option for everything. The sheer volume of options overwhelms even many of us geeks!
I would really love to see some app store competition. This 30% take on everything is ridiculous. If the big app stores would charge a flat fee, or cap their take at a certain dollar amount, much more quality software would show up on the app stores, instead of just rinky-dink cheap and free apps. If there were app store competition, we'd have a lot better choices.
Google also knows MORE about you than any of these DNA companies, and their entire business model is built on selling your information to the highest bidder. Why is this any worse?
Yep, there's plenty of room out in the western part of the state. There, you'll learn what it means to work for a living. But it's OK, you'll get to actually KEEP your money. Those are two of the lessons the New Orleans immigrants learned after Katrina!
What they need is people who think outside the box. An idea shower might help going forward. This new research will push the envelope, drilling down to new ideas. This will be a win-win scenario, impacting the bottom line. The game plan should be results-driven so we can all hit the ground running. When all is said and done, we might find we have re-invented the wheel, forcing us to go back to the drawing board. It's a no-brainer!
So you feel underpaid? Go out and get a better-paying job, where you are paid what you are worth! Oh, you can't find a job that will pay you more? Maybe there's a reason for that! Maybe you aren't worth as much as you think you are!
I've certainly worked with people who feel under-paid, They tend to be the complainers, and they usually need a pay cut more than a pay raise. The good ones are too busy getting things done to complain, and their employers notice and bend over backwards to keep them.
Of course there are exceptions, where people are not paid fairly. But I suspect this is far less common than 60%.
By definition, exactly 50% make less than the median, and exactly 50% make more than the median. Not 60/40. 60% COULD make less than the mean, but not the median.
UBI won't eliminate begging. Many homeless people have mental illnesses that prevent them from being successful at "normal" jobs and lives. UBI won't fix that.
If you call customer service, and someone picks up the phone right away and starts talking to you, that's all you need to know...it's a robot. Real humans are too expensive to have enough excess capacity to pick up the phone right away, so you'll always have to wait to talk to one.
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This reminds me of the Atari 400, which had only a touch keyboard.
Well, most Mac users I know don't touch-type anyway, so it's probably just the same to them.
Seems like a scam on top of a scam!
According to the article, the 500-year film was developed in the 1990s, when microfilm was being phased out everywhere. That doesn't leave a lot of 500-year microfilm out there!
Your reasons are on target. Android may be Linux, but it is completely controlled by Google. Yeah, I know, you can download it and make your own custom version, but good luck getting anyone else to use your custom version! AND it has none of the one-off options of Linux, like "zoom maps out flat or spherical."
The hardest part of programming is not the coding. It's deciding exactly what you want the software to do! This is called engineering.
In a way, it's like road building. The hard part is not moving the dirt around and pouring concrete. The hard part is deciding where you want the road to go, buying the land where it will go, putting up with people who don't want the road nearby.
In the bad old days of Basic, software structure and layers were non-existent. Good luck trying to reverse-engineer somebody else's old code! Today, programming has become much better structured, making it far easier to maintain and extend. There's no way I want to go back!
This is precisely what keeps Linux from going mainstream: it allows every nerd to have their little special option for everything. The sheer volume of options overwhelms even many of us geeks!
I would really love to see some app store competition. This 30% take on everything is ridiculous. If the big app stores would charge a flat fee, or cap their take at a certain dollar amount, much more quality software would show up on the app stores, instead of just rinky-dink cheap and free apps. If there were app store competition, we'd have a lot better choices.
Nobody ever WILL do this right, because it CAN'T be done right. The entire concept violates principles of motivation bound up in human DNA.
A contractual agreement like this does not go away legally when a company folds.
Google also knows MORE about you than any of these DNA companies, and their entire business model is built on selling your information to the highest bidder. Why is this any worse?
Yep, there's plenty of room out in the western part of the state. There, you'll learn what it means to work for a living. But it's OK, you'll get to actually KEEP your money. Those are two of the lessons the New Orleans immigrants learned after Katrina!
They already have lots of snakes and dongles you can purchase, to plug in your "legacy" headphones.
...in writing the requirements!
But...when you turn around, those same children imitate and repeat those "embarrassing" jokes to their friends!
Yum!
What they need is people who think outside the box. An idea shower might help going forward. This new research will push the envelope, drilling down to new ideas. This will be a win-win scenario, impacting the bottom line. The game plan should be results-driven so we can all hit the ground running. When all is said and done, we might find we have re-invented the wheel, forcing us to go back to the drawing board. It's a no-brainer!
Perhaps you get your news from a much more reliable source, like YouTube or Reddit. Or...slashdot!
So you feel underpaid? Go out and get a better-paying job, where you are paid what you are worth! Oh, you can't find a job that will pay you more? Maybe there's a reason for that! Maybe you aren't worth as much as you think you are!
I've certainly worked with people who feel under-paid, They tend to be the complainers, and they usually need a pay cut more than a pay raise. The good ones are too busy getting things done to complain, and their employers notice and bend over backwards to keep them.
Of course there are exceptions, where people are not paid fairly. But I suspect this is far less common than 60%.
By definition, exactly 50% make less than the median, and exactly 50% make more than the median. Not 60/40. 60% COULD make less than the mean, but not the median.
Of course, I know that cash still exists. But I can't remember the last time I actually used it.
UBI won't eliminate begging. Many homeless people have mental illnesses that prevent them from being successful at "normal" jobs and lives. UBI won't fix that.
Kind of like how 95% of farm jobs have been automated over the past 100 years? Somehow, people still managed to find other work!
Yep, I have the T-shirt! Random people come up to me and ask "What does that mean?"
If you call customer service, and someone picks up the phone right away and starts talking to you, that's all you need to know...it's a robot. Real humans are too expensive to have enough excess capacity to pick up the phone right away, so you'll always have to wait to talk to one.