This is a good idea. However, there are a couple of drawbacks: 1. Android tablets like to go to sleep when they aren't being used. The longest wake time is 30 minutes, there is no "never" setting. 2. Because the display is backlit, it would have to be plugged in constantly. Not a deal-breaker, but the battery would tend to wear out relatively quickly. And since you typically can't replace the battery, you have to replace the whole device.
Yes, I searched Google for GPS wall clocks. There are lots of results, but when you read the fine print, you find out they are just plain-old quartz movements. The sellers of these clocks just tag extra search keywords in hopes of finding customers.
There are a few kits available (not cheap), and one on Alibaba (but you have to buy 2,000), and a couple of others with prices in the hundreds.
Since you so easily found all these GPS clocks, perhaps you could share a link or two, preferably under $100!
2) Child autonomy and 4) supervise children. I wonder if those two came from the same children, or different ones. I hope that parents are smart enough to be the parents, and choose the right option. Sorry kits, you have to grow up to have autonomy.
Each generation of developer tools has vastly reduced the amount of human work needed to write software.
First-generation coding required laborious entry of numeric machine code. Second-generation coding turned this into somewhat human-readable assembly language. Third-generation coding abstracted software development to the point that a line of code could easily generate hundreds or thousands of lines of assembly language. "Expert Systems" automated programming tasks in many specialized areas.
Today's developer tools do more and more of the mechanical work of producing software. Yet the demand for good developers has never been stronger. The pie of software to be written is not a fixed size. The more that can be automated, the more that business owners want done.
Home Depot is as much a victim as customers. This incident is costing them millions, even without the lawsuit settlement.
Sure, businesses should beef up security. But if your local hardware store is robbed, and the burglars got in because the store didn't have bullet-proof glass windows, nobody sues the store owners, they look for the thieves and try to bring them to justice.
No matter what kind of security is employed by Home Depot or anyone else, criminals will find ways to get in. Let's not punish the victims!
Organizing paper statements requires having a system, some kind of stack of folders, that allow you to find statements you want to find. If you can do that, you can also organize e-statements using folders on your hard drive. If you can't do that, your paper statements are probably a mess too.
DON'T just trust the statement provider to keep them, download each statement each month as PDF and save it on your own hard drive. AND make sure you have backups! Statements aren't any good unless you hang on to them, whether they are e-statements or paper.
If you actually read the article, what they said was that nobody was using it, so they killed the feature. Now that it's gone, everybody seems to want it back!
I wonder just how many slashdotters actually have a Kindle. My guess is most go for devices attached to the Google Play Store instead.
Yes, you do typically have to live in or near a big city to get good tech jobs. Being from Texas, I know that the market for developers is hot in all of the major cities in this state. Home prices, the cost of living, and taxes are all low in Texas, even in the cities. Pay for programmers is good, well into six figures, and that pay goes a lot farther than it does in Silicon Valley. I'll grant you that commute times are often around one hour each way. But that's true with or without H1(b)s.
All this leads me to think that your struggles finding the work you want are not so much because of competition from H1(b) candidates, but more because of your own personal choices about where to live and what kind of pay you'll accept.
Despite Disney's actions, the future looks really bright for tech workers. For example, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that for software developers, the job outlook is "much better than average." http://www.bls.gov/ooh/compute...
If your children are interested in tech, you'll be hurting their futures if you try to steer them into other professions.
There might be some parts of the country, such as Detroit, where the job outlook isn't great. But in most places, technical professions are very much in demand.
I leave the checkbox unchecked too, because 1) It unchecks itself after a few days anyway 2) Slashdot ads have gotten more and more intrusive 3) I never see them any more because of AdBlock Plus!
Right now it's telling me that it blocked 8 ads on this page alone. That's not what I call "acceptable" advertising.
The problem with your idea is that there is no "first" or "second" dimension, per se. In other words, there is no observed one-dimensional universe that is somehow superseded by a two-dimensional universe that theoretical one-dimensional creatures can't comprehend. Nor is there an observed two-dimensional universe within our three-dimensional universe. There are no lines or planes of existence that we can observe, only our three-dimensional universe. Lines and planes are simply abstract mathematical concepts, not physical realities. There is no observed evidence for 1-dimensional or 2-dimensional realities, any more than there is any observed evidence for a 4- or 5-dimensional reality. Only 3.
Science is by definition drawn upon observation. It's not necessary to disprove the existence of other "dimensions," instead, it is necessary for science to prove that they do exist.
Just because a mathematical model can easily go beyond 3 dimensions, doesn't mean that reality also goes beyond 3 dimensions.
Sure, you can think of time as the fourth dimension. But that's just a convenient way to make mathematical models handle reality. Time isn't a truly physical fourth dimension. To my knowledge, there isn't as yet any proof of the reality of dimensions beyond 3, only theories.
Much of what we understand about general relativity is based on mathematical models. As with any model, there are limits beyond which the model cannot go. Bohr's atomic model has long since shown to have flaws, but even today it is a useful model for many kinds of predictions. We're never going to have a perfect model, but that doesn't mean the model is no good, or that it can't be used to make good predictions. We should NEVER completely trust a model.
Using the term "designer babies" is a use of sensationalism to belittle the real medical advances going on. The implication of the term is that parents are considering gene editing just to get the hair or eye color they want. That would indeed be inappropriate. But the reality is that there are many serious genetic diseases, that may only be curable through gene editing. Should we ban all antibiotics because some use it as a growth hormone? Certainly not! Nor should we dismiss genetic therapies because some might have a desire to use it for vain manipulation.
It would have been nice to see some data or graphs, or better yet, a map, showing this trend. What was offered were anecdotes. San Francisco may attract a lot of tech talent, but is $150K in SF really a middle-class salary? Houston may not attract such large numbers of tech workers, but you can actually live on $70K.
Many young people, and some not so young, are living in their parents' basements, essentially getting an income for free. No rent, no grocery bill, no utility bills, no-cost Internet. All that is worth at least $1,000-2,000 per month.
What do these people do? Well, duh! If they don't have to work, most of them don't! Why would anyone work, when they can play video games all day, or read facebook posts, or sleep around, or whatever else they want to do?
Work is a basic human need, benefiting us in far more ways than just earning us money. It gives us a sense of belonging, of purpose, confidence, happiness, and self-esteem. But it's like eating vegetables. We all know we should, but our expanding waistlines make it clear that it's not enough motivation just to know that we should. Tying work to money is one of the greatest things we can do for our children, and our society.
For decades, the Telcos did nothing about unwanted calls. If anything, they encouraged it because they were able to often charge by the minute. All of this was possible because there was absolutely no competition. You signed up with Ma Bell, or you didn't get phone service. It literally took an act of Congress to force them to let you buy your own phone instead of leasing one of the two models (standard or trimline) offered by the Phone Company.
Nowadays, the old-fashioned Telcos are starting to feel the pressure of competition. People are ditching land lines in droves. They can actually choose a carrier now.
Guess what! Suddenly the Telcos are starting to remember they they have living, breathing, unhappy customers. FINALLY they are starting to innovate. Unfortunately, it's a bit too late.
Flagship phones use a lot of battery, in the interest of making the most powerful, cool devices out there.
Second-tier phones like the Moto G are less powerful, but they still run Android just fine, and they use a lot less battery power. These phones can easily last 2-3 days on a single charge. The one exception is when you use the GPS, in which case you need to keep it (or any phone) plugged in to a charger constantly while using that feature.
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This is a good idea. However, there are a couple of drawbacks:
1. Android tablets like to go to sleep when they aren't being used. The longest wake time is 30 minutes, there is no "never" setting.
2. Because the display is backlit, it would have to be plugged in constantly. Not a deal-breaker, but the battery would tend to wear out relatively quickly. And since you typically can't replace the battery, you have to replace the whole device.
Still, I like it!
Yes, I searched Google for GPS wall clocks. There are lots of results, but when you read the fine print, you find out they are just plain-old quartz movements. The sellers of these clocks just tag extra search keywords in hopes of finding customers.
There are a few kits available (not cheap), and one on Alibaba (but you have to buy 2,000), and a couple of others with prices in the hundreds.
Since you so easily found all these GPS clocks, perhaps you could share a link or two, preferably under $100!
2) Child autonomy and 4) supervise children. I wonder if those two came from the same children, or different ones. I hope that parents are smart enough to be the parents, and choose the right option. Sorry kits, you have to grow up to have autonomy.
Each generation of developer tools has vastly reduced the amount of human work needed to write software.
First-generation coding required laborious entry of numeric machine code.
Second-generation coding turned this into somewhat human-readable assembly language.
Third-generation coding abstracted software development to the point that a line of code could easily generate hundreds or thousands of lines of assembly language.
"Expert Systems" automated programming tasks in many specialized areas.
Today's developer tools do more and more of the mechanical work of producing software. Yet the demand for good developers has never been stronger. The pie of software to be written is not a fixed size. The more that can be automated, the more that business owners want done.
Home Depot is as much a victim as customers. This incident is costing them millions, even without the lawsuit settlement.
Sure, businesses should beef up security. But if your local hardware store is robbed, and the burglars got in because the store didn't have bullet-proof glass windows, nobody sues the store owners, they look for the thieves and try to bring them to justice.
No matter what kind of security is employed by Home Depot or anyone else, criminals will find ways to get in. Let's not punish the victims!
Sadly, you probably ARE the only one.
Organizing paper statements requires having a system, some kind of stack of folders, that allow you to find statements you want to find. If you can do that, you can also organize e-statements using folders on your hard drive. If you can't do that, your paper statements are probably a mess too.
DON'T just trust the statement provider to keep them, download each statement each month as PDF and save it on your own hard drive. AND make sure you have backups! Statements aren't any good unless you hang on to them, whether they are e-statements or paper.
If you actually read the article, what they said was that nobody was using it, so they killed the feature. Now that it's gone, everybody seems to want it back!
I wonder just how many slashdotters actually have a Kindle. My guess is most go for devices attached to the Google Play Store instead.
Yes, you do typically have to live in or near a big city to get good tech jobs. Being from Texas, I know that the market for developers is hot in all of the major cities in this state. Home prices, the cost of living, and taxes are all low in Texas, even in the cities. Pay for programmers is good, well into six figures, and that pay goes a lot farther than it does in Silicon Valley. I'll grant you that commute times are often around one hour each way. But that's true with or without H1(b)s.
All this leads me to think that your struggles finding the work you want are not so much because of competition from H1(b) candidates, but more because of your own personal choices about where to live and what kind of pay you'll accept.
Despite Disney's actions, the future looks really bright for tech workers. For example, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that for software developers, the job outlook is "much better than average." http://www.bls.gov/ooh/compute...
If your children are interested in tech, you'll be hurting their futures if you try to steer them into other professions.
There might be some parts of the country, such as Detroit, where the job outlook isn't great. But in most places, technical professions are very much in demand.
I leave the checkbox unchecked too, because
1) It unchecks itself after a few days anyway
2) Slashdot ads have gotten more and more intrusive
3) I never see them any more because of AdBlock Plus!
Right now it's telling me that it blocked 8 ads on this page alone. That's not what I call "acceptable" advertising.
Do we believe in human rights, or just US Citizen rights?
If we believe only US Citizens should have rights, we are hypocrites.
Criminals use them to get around more easily, so we should definitely do away with them.
The problem with your idea is that there is no "first" or "second" dimension, per se. In other words, there is no observed one-dimensional universe that is somehow superseded by a two-dimensional universe that theoretical one-dimensional creatures can't comprehend. Nor is there an observed two-dimensional universe within our three-dimensional universe. There are no lines or planes of existence that we can observe, only our three-dimensional universe. Lines and planes are simply abstract mathematical concepts, not physical realities. There is no observed evidence for 1-dimensional or 2-dimensional realities, any more than there is any observed evidence for a 4- or 5-dimensional reality. Only 3.
Science is by definition drawn upon observation. It's not necessary to disprove the existence of other "dimensions," instead, it is necessary for science to prove that they do exist.
Just because a mathematical model can easily go beyond 3 dimensions, doesn't mean that reality also goes beyond 3 dimensions.
Sure, you can think of time as the fourth dimension. But that's just a convenient way to make mathematical models handle reality. Time isn't a truly physical fourth dimension. To my knowledge, there isn't as yet any proof of the reality of dimensions beyond 3, only theories.
Much of what we understand about general relativity is based on mathematical models. As with any model, there are limits beyond which the model cannot go. Bohr's atomic model has long since shown to have flaws, but even today it is a useful model for many kinds of predictions. We're never going to have a perfect model, but that doesn't mean the model is no good, or that it can't be used to make good predictions. We should NEVER completely trust a model.
Chicago, of course!
Using the term "designer babies" is a use of sensationalism to belittle the real medical advances going on. The implication of the term is that parents are considering gene editing just to get the hair or eye color they want. That would indeed be inappropriate. But the reality is that there are many serious genetic diseases, that may only be curable through gene editing. Should we ban all antibiotics because some use it as a growth hormone? Certainly not! Nor should we dismiss genetic therapies because some might have a desire to use it for vain manipulation.
It would have been nice to see some data or graphs, or better yet, a map, showing this trend. What was offered were anecdotes. San Francisco may attract a lot of tech talent, but is $150K in SF really a middle-class salary? Houston may not attract such large numbers of tech workers, but you can actually live on $70K.
Many young people, and some not so young, are living in their parents' basements, essentially getting an income for free. No rent, no grocery bill, no utility bills, no-cost Internet. All that is worth at least $1,000-2,000 per month.
What do these people do? Well, duh! If they don't have to work, most of them don't! Why would anyone work, when they can play video games all day, or read facebook posts, or sleep around, or whatever else they want to do?
Work is a basic human need, benefiting us in far more ways than just earning us money. It gives us a sense of belonging, of purpose, confidence, happiness, and self-esteem. But it's like eating vegetables. We all know we should, but our expanding waistlines make it clear that it's not enough motivation just to know that we should. Tying work to money is one of the greatest things we can do for our children, and our society.
Some products are "guaranteed for life." What/whose life?
I suppose if it lasts only 1,000 years, they'll come back in their time machine and sue the inventors.
Just like any commercial claim, it seems prudent to read the fine print.
For decades, the Telcos did nothing about unwanted calls. If anything, they encouraged it because they were able to often charge by the minute. All of this was possible because there was absolutely no competition. You signed up with Ma Bell, or you didn't get phone service. It literally took an act of Congress to force them to let you buy your own phone instead of leasing one of the two models (standard or trimline) offered by the Phone Company.
Nowadays, the old-fashioned Telcos are starting to feel the pressure of competition. People are ditching land lines in droves. They can actually choose a carrier now.
Guess what! Suddenly the Telcos are starting to remember they they have living, breathing, unhappy customers. FINALLY they are starting to innovate. Unfortunately, it's a bit too late.
You mean, kind of like it is on Google?
Flagship phones use a lot of battery, in the interest of making the most powerful, cool devices out there.
Second-tier phones like the Moto G are less powerful, but they still run Android just fine, and they use a lot less battery power. These phones can easily last 2-3 days on a single charge. The one exception is when you use the GPS, in which case you need to keep it (or any phone) plugged in to a charger constantly while using that feature.
Yeah, let's all go to Bing!
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