This is kinda curious, cos I've hated pretty much every job I've had (at least once the first year honeymoon-period has been up), UNTIL I turned 35. Or 37 actually, but who's counting. By that time I'd had many different jobs that each sucked in different ways, so I was able to ask the right questions at interviews to establish, whether the workplace, the boss and the role was for me. My own vetting just got a lot better = increased job satisfaction.
Then again, I'm not shooting for management, so that might be why I'm not getting disenchanted with the whole thing. Would I prefer being independently wealthy and not employed per se? Sure. But really who wouldn't.
That is a fairly ridiculous statement. Making a horrendous decision and then acting to correct it only after it can't be concealed or managed anymore is not "good decisionmaking". It's having your hand forced in spite of yourself.
What exactly do you mean "unlike in Britain"? The U.S. protections of speech are by no means unique, in fact similar protections are commonplace in most democracies. Even in the U.S. frankly odd and undemocratic version of democracy, for now.
Apparently 14 to 21 units is in this study categorized as moderate drinking. It sounds like rather a lot to me. It's decidedly more than the occasional glass of wine with dinner or drinking alcohol at social functions. For the age group in question, it sounds like a lot and adverse effects shouldn't be all that surprising?
It was essentially to protect the trade balance, since Denmark has to import all cars, to limit consumption during the oil crisis, and lastly to tax luxury goods, which is common in Denmark. Even if two out of three of those don't apply anymore, it's hard for politicians to cut tax revenue, and lowering the tax would cause massive losses for current car owners, both private and corporate, which is not popular.
And the tax hasn't been 180 % for a few years now but 105/150 % depending on value. When it was lowered, a lot of car owners complained about it.
Firstly, the nominal tax rate for vehicles is 150 % and that's only for the higher parts of the value of more expensive vehicles. Second, starting in 2016 taxes for electric vehicles started being gradually phased in. As such the tax on electric vehicles went from zero to at most 20 % of the tax on non-electric vehicles in 2016, plus there is a deduction on top of that effectively making anything cheaper than a Tesla still tax free (the tax system is progressive and value based, but the deductions are fixed value).
A lot of vehicles were hoarded towards the end of the zero tax period ending in 2015, making the sales numbers artificially high by displacing sales that might otherwise have come in 2016 to 2015 due to the foreseen tax hike. A lot of those vehicles were bought to subsequently sell for profit once the taxes kicked in, which is evident in that many have since been sold or exported. In 2017 the tax rate rose to 40 %, though through deductions still pretty much only Teslas (and some expensive hybrids) are actually taxed.
Lastly, since late 2016 and all the way up until mid April 2017 there have been very public political discussions about extending the tax breaks for electric vehicles. This means that during that time, only an idiot would have bought an electric car, knowing that it was highly likely for taxes to be cut on them again shortly. This is in fact what happened, and rates were lowered from 40 % back to 20 % for two more years. This makes sales naturally very weak in Q1 2017.
So in short, you can't compare 2015 to 2016 or 2017 without taking into account what happened during that time politically and the market forces that drove the 2015 spike. Basically the article is bad, and you should feel bad.;)
The question should really just be a poll. Since that's essentially what it is anyway. Yes, I use it daily - I was bummed when iGoogle was shut down, but use a similar alternative now, checking it several times a day and using it as my seach page occasionally. I haven't seen any better alternatives.
I actually just this week stocked up on some Skylake parts, as to avoid a forced upgrade that comes with Kaby Lake. The key issue for me would be: Does the UI still look like the afterbirth from Win 3.1?
By all accounts, the answer is yes. It is utterly beyond me how such a terrible eye-straining flat UI could be launched in this decade.
How about don't use air conditioning in the first place (and in winter??), before you complain about China trying to supply power to its populace at all? Sounds ridiculously wasteful.
Among the sizzling innovations in the new Apple programming will be that you can no longer turn off your TV or stop playback once you've started an episode, it will automatically perform "updates" of your platform to prevent non-Apple content being played back in the future, and you will need to sign over your firstborn and put your house up as collateral to create a streaming account in the first place.
I can't actually tell if you're kidding or not, but I would probably buy a decent physics enabled game stuffed with dinosaurs. Problem is, you'd have to be playing a dinosaur too, right? At least not a human.
Obviously the most convnient targets for tax evasion litigation are tax evaders. But it's nice of Apple to point out that they are indeed in that pool.
So VR heralds a golden age. Like in the 90s, when VR was the hottests new thing. Then again in the 00s. And now the 10s. I can't wait for VR to be the hottest new thing in the 20s!
Excuse me, I am going to go not enjoy my 3D TV set while waiting for 3D TV to become the hottest new thing in the 20s.
Maybe complicated isn't the right word, but it has taken a rather nasty beating with the ugly stick, everything is moved (for no obvious reason, other than to f.. with people), and it is still more optimized towards touch than anyone with a desktop would need or want.
"Of course, older versions of Windows and alternative operating systems will still install and run on Kaby Lake and Zen. They are x86 processors, after all."
This is contraty to what I've read elsewhere, but I'd be interested to know once and for all, if I need new hardware (Kaby or lateR), will I be able to continue using Win7? If there are no kernel drivers (which is what the other articles stated), then... ?
I don't understand how anyone would find that question interesting. At least not without pictures for possible inspiration from the rare exceptional setup. From experience it's one of those things people love telling other people about, yet noone cares to hear about. Like your dreams. Or your kids.
Am I reading this right, the basic gist of the article is that custom, purposebuilt chips are faster at very specific tasks than general all-purpose chips?
Why aren't we instead discussing the reasons people do not want Win10 - a free "upgrade"? I understand MSs reasons to want everyone to be on the same platform so that they can move that platform to a service subscription model, but.. isn't the elefant in the room the obvious shortcomings of Win10 as "the last OS Microsoft will release" for the PC platform?
I mean if this is really to be the last large scale release, I'm puzzled by the obvious touchscreen focused UI, the frankly backwards styling and the amount of usability changes since win7 making migration a royal pain in the butt since pretty much everything has moved or been renamed. If you wanted to end on a high note, update the Win7 core and UI with the underpinnings of Win10 and call it a day.
Neither salt nor preservatives are inherently bad. First, preservatives could be pretty much anything, including a lot of natural substances with no harmful effects, eg. vinegar. Second, there is increasing evidence that the demonizing of salt is ill-founded. Each person likely has a different salt requirement to function optimally and the links to high blood pressure and other cardiovascular issues are based on questionable studies some of which have already been disproven.
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This is kinda curious, cos I've hated pretty much every job I've had (at least once the first year honeymoon-period has been up), UNTIL I turned 35. Or 37 actually, but who's counting. By that time I'd had many different jobs that each sucked in different ways, so I was able to ask the right questions at interviews to establish, whether the workplace, the boss and the role was for me. My own vetting just got a lot better = increased job satisfaction.
Then again, I'm not shooting for management, so that might be why I'm not getting disenchanted with the whole thing. Would I prefer being independently wealthy and not employed per se? Sure. But really who wouldn't.
That is a fairly ridiculous statement. Making a horrendous decision and then acting to correct it only after it can't be concealed or managed anymore is not "good decisionmaking". It's having your hand forced in spite of yourself.
What exactly do you mean "unlike in Britain"? The U.S. protections of speech are by no means unique, in fact similar protections are commonplace in most democracies. Even in the U.S. frankly odd and undemocratic version of democracy, for now.
So, uhm. Why wouldn't that make google etc. equally illegal? You can find magnet links very easily there to just about anything you could want.
Apparently 14 to 21 units is in this study categorized as moderate drinking. It sounds like rather a lot to me. It's decidedly more than the occasional glass of wine with dinner or drinking alcohol at social functions. For the age group in question, it sounds like a lot and adverse effects shouldn't be all that surprising?
It was essentially to protect the trade balance, since Denmark has to import all cars, to limit consumption during the oil crisis, and lastly to tax luxury goods, which is common in Denmark. Even if two out of three of those don't apply anymore, it's hard for politicians to cut tax revenue, and lowering the tax would cause massive losses for current car owners, both private and corporate, which is not popular.
And the tax hasn't been 180 % for a few years now but 105/150 % depending on value. When it was lowered, a lot of car owners complained about it.
Hardly anything in that summary is accurate.
Firstly, the nominal tax rate for vehicles is 150 % and that's only for the higher parts of the value of more expensive vehicles. Second, starting in 2016 taxes for electric vehicles started being gradually phased in. As such the tax on electric vehicles went from zero to at most 20 % of the tax on non-electric vehicles in 2016, plus there is a deduction on top of that effectively making anything cheaper than a Tesla still tax free (the tax system is progressive and value based, but the deductions are fixed value).
A lot of vehicles were hoarded towards the end of the zero tax period ending in 2015, making the sales numbers artificially high by displacing sales that might otherwise have come in 2016 to 2015 due to the foreseen tax hike. A lot of those vehicles were bought to subsequently sell for profit once the taxes kicked in, which is evident in that many have since been sold or exported. In 2017 the tax rate rose to 40 %, though through deductions still pretty much only Teslas (and some expensive hybrids) are actually taxed.
Lastly, since late 2016 and all the way up until mid April 2017 there have been very public political discussions about extending the tax breaks for electric vehicles. This means that during that time, only an idiot would have bought an electric car, knowing that it was highly likely for taxes to be cut on them again shortly. This is in fact what happened, and rates were lowered from 40 % back to 20 % for two more years. This makes sales naturally very weak in Q1 2017.
So in short, you can't compare 2015 to 2016 or 2017 without taking into account what happened during that time politically and the market forces that drove the 2015 spike. Basically the article is bad, and you should feel bad. ;)
Source: I drafted the legislation and can read.
Lets ban those pesky burglary enabling hammers.
The question should really just be a poll. Since that's essentially what it is anyway. Yes, I use it daily - I was bummed when iGoogle was shut down, but use a similar alternative now, checking it several times a day and using it as my seach page occasionally. I haven't seen any better alternatives.
My first system was a ZX-81. But it was really only good for learning a bit of basic.
My first useful home computer was the Amiga500. Which was a thoroughly awesome thing.
I actually just this week stocked up on some Skylake parts, as to avoid a forced upgrade that comes with Kaby Lake. The key issue for me would be: Does the UI still look like the afterbirth from Win 3.1?
By all accounts, the answer is yes. It is utterly beyond me how such a terrible eye-straining flat UI could be launched in this decade.
How about don't use air conditioning in the first place (and in winter??), before you complain about China trying to supply power to its populace at all? Sounds ridiculously wasteful.
Among the sizzling innovations in the new Apple programming will be that you can no longer turn off your TV or stop playback once you've started an episode, it will automatically perform "updates" of your platform to prevent non-Apple content being played back in the future, and you will need to sign over your firstborn and put your house up as collateral to create a streaming account in the first place.
I can't actually tell if you're kidding or not, but I would probably buy a decent physics enabled game stuffed with dinosaurs. Problem is, you'd have to be playing a dinosaur too, right? At least not a human.
Obviously the most convnient targets for tax evasion litigation are tax evaders. But it's nice of Apple to point out that they are indeed in that pool.
So VR heralds a golden age. Like in the 90s, when VR was the hottests new thing. Then again in the 00s. And now the 10s. I can't wait for VR to be the hottest new thing in the 20s!
Excuse me, I am going to go not enjoy my 3D TV set while waiting for 3D TV to become the hottest new thing in the 20s.
Maybe complicated isn't the right word, but it has taken a rather nasty beating with the ugly stick, everything is moved (for no obvious reason, other than to f.. with people), and it is still more optimized towards touch than anyone with a desktop would need or want.
"Of course, older versions of Windows and alternative operating systems will still install and run on Kaby Lake and Zen. They are x86 processors, after all."
... ?
This is contraty to what I've read elsewhere, but I'd be interested to know once and for all, if I need new hardware (Kaby or lateR), will I be able to continue using Win7? If there are no kernel drivers (which is what the other articles stated), then
Nah, they were waterboarding agents, but with the drought and all.
I don't understand how anyone would find that question interesting. At least not without pictures for possible inspiration from the rare exceptional setup. From experience it's one of those things people love telling other people about, yet noone cares to hear about. Like your dreams. Or your kids.
Note to self. According to the justice system, it would have been better to just rape the officials, than mildly embarass them publicly.
Am I reading this right, the basic gist of the article is that custom, purposebuilt chips are faster at very specific tasks than general all-purpose chips?
Such amaze, much fast, wow.
Why aren't we instead discussing the reasons people do not want Win10 - a free "upgrade"? I understand MSs reasons to want everyone to be on the same platform so that they can move that platform to a service subscription model, but .. isn't the elefant in the room the obvious shortcomings of Win10 as "the last OS Microsoft will release" for the PC platform?
I mean if this is really to be the last large scale release, I'm puzzled by the obvious touchscreen focused UI, the frankly backwards styling and the amount of usability changes since win7 making migration a royal pain in the butt since pretty much everything has moved or been renamed. If you wanted to end on a high note, update the Win7 core and UI with the underpinnings of Win10 and call it a day.
"the Antique based software company SlySoft"
Yeah, OK, DVDs are practically antiques by now, but I'm pretty sure that's not a state. Antigua I assume?
Neither salt nor preservatives are inherently bad. First, preservatives could be pretty much anything, including a lot of natural substances with no harmful effects, eg. vinegar. Second, there is increasing evidence that the demonizing of salt is ill-founded. Each person likely has a different salt requirement to function optimally and the links to high blood pressure and other cardiovascular issues are based on questionable studies some of which have already been disproven.
So my question is really, what was your point?