WhatsApp allows voice and video calls over wifi for free
I live in the US and I don't know anyone that uses iMessage. Everyone (iphone, android) has WhatsApp, and it works with all long distance/international users on the first try. Plus unlike SMS you get a delivery confirmation and read receipt for every message. Only a very rare few friends and family don't use WhatsApp.
I might use Twitter if there was a client that was pleasant to use. I find it difficult to navigate using the stock app, and every time a good third party app comes out they seem to shut it down to avoid competition. If I want to read the president's tweets I just google "donald trump twitter" and most of the time someone has already summarized that day's outbursts along with relevant responses from the groups he had targeted that day -- no need to dig in and read the raw data.
I have a twitter account but there's no incentive to login to read the tweet and someone (x1000) has already responded with what I was already thinking so why bother.
Twitter is an interesting take on PRWire but not super interesting.
Hail, bird strikes, random acts of God, manufacturing defects etc etc replacement, plus 20% overhead = less than ideal service life for the panels. The utility companies typically do RTF, or "run to fail" and they need a number that's comfortably below the average design life so that they can budget for the the items listed at the beginning of this post. Any overages in savings go to pay for union worker's raises and benefits.
Really. Everything I've read says he's still using a Galaxy S6 smartphone from his campaign days. People were even doing analysis of which were "real" trump tweets vs "marketing" tweets as the marketing tweets always came from an iphone and the real ones came from the Android client.
Obama, Hillary did in fact use government issued blackberries though
We're not debating what ACA was trying to accomplish, we're trying to establish if it was a power grab by the federal government, and if so, what (if any) of the status quo changed.
To reiterate on the original poster's point, this is a poor choice of name for use in north america. Most Americans might recognize the name North Star but would find it difficult to draw the connection between that and what Pole Star means in that context.
Coming from Texas where there's not a whole lot of federal government representation (outside of the federal court system) it always stuns me to hear this great hatred of the federal government and I've not understood why a "power grab" that is represented as better health care for everyone. Is this a states' rights issue or who exactly are they stealing power from, and why are you so opposed to it?
Diesel engines (especially on the lower end of the HP range) cost 10x what gasoline engines do, but they only last 3x as long. And yet there's a huge, massive market for diesel engines due to their higher reliability. 20hp gas engine runs about $280-$375 depending on brand and features. 20 hp diesel runs about $3,300. With regular maintenance you will get 2000-3500 hours use from that gas engine before it wears out, while the diesel will probably need a rebuild at 10,000 hours and will happily do another 7,000-8,000 hours on the original block. Just change the oil, coolant and filters every 500 hours or so (500 hours is ~10,000 miles on a car)
It's either a direct allusion to a pole dancer, or indirect one to porn star. I guess in european motorsports pole is associated with finishing first, but a lot of things don't translate well across the pond.
At my last job (where I was still a bachelor and not like now, where I'm in the early family planning stages) I was locked in to a very low rental rate, had no external expenses (car, insurance, health costs etc) and was continuing to live the same (very, very cheap) lifestyle I had when I was unemployed during the 2008 crisis (a couple hundred dollars a month after rent)... if I could have gone down to 30 or even 20 hours a week I may have taken it. I had enough surplus money to travel extensively, but not enough to really save for the downpayment on a house.
If I didn't have to worry about rising rent costs or cost of health insurance (or family planning) I'd probably opt to take the fewest number of hours to meet my living costs + monthly savings quota.
Assuming they sort out the safely issues (I mean we stand on busses and trains and subways moving 50mph... my commuter train regularly tops 70mph here in America) yest take off and landing would be a bit sketch if it's setup the way a subway is, but if you take the time and effort to look at the problem from a new way, maybe add some specialized equipment... maybe it still can't be done, but it's certainly worth looking in to.
If it were safe and say, cost half as much, $150 round trip to Seattle from SF at the gate (not buying in advance) vs $350 or even $500 recently, heck yeah I would be willing to stand for two hours!
The elderly and sick, pregnant mothers, and people in wheelchairs would still have priority seating access of course.
Google News and Weather Underground are my top two sites for general information.
Long ago Wunderground did their "web 2.0" redesign but retained the (much better) classic design at classic.wunderground.com... until they finally axed that in 2015. Now I don't really have a good one page fits all weather site anymore. I was thinking about just writing my own.
Now, Google News was a treasure trove of all the most important stories of the day, with the ability to turn off entertainment (kardashians, hollywood stuff) that was densely packed with lots of alternative stories. Now it is what I've seen best described as "white space heavy". Ugh.
Definitely looking for a new news aggregator, Google News used to be the best, now it's just as bad and useless as yahoo news or any other host of mediocre news sites.
The data density is what made Google News useful and unique, now it's just another "white space heavy" mediocre news page. What garbage. So sad, how the mighty have fallen.
I basically avoid airports now unless I am traveling more than 8 hours by car. It was barely worth it before, it's absolutely not worth it anymore. I submit to airport screenings for international travel, but travel is just miserable now, knowing you have to go through that degrading experience, and will have to do it again on the way home.
I don't think there's much/any overlap between being able to study for a test and being technically proficient. Most of the people coming out of university with comp sci degrees are mostly useless at doing real world tasks, whereas our top developers are all self taught, or have degrees completely unrelated to their profession. The general impression I have of people with uni degrees in comp sci are children with helicopter parents who wanted their kid to have a good job so they held their hand through high school and college to get them that piece of paper at the easiest/cheapest state school and got them a job that will pay their own rent, without teaching them any useful life/work skills.
The self taught ones are working in the industry for very different reasons/life paths.
Whole foods has a pretty incredible IT department, they have oodles of data back to at least the late 90s on every customer, purchase, and analysis of purchasing habits etc etc. They're a very big customer of Oracle's. It's hard if not impossible to buy that kind of dataset, and if you intend to move in to, own and dominate brick and mortar retail, you need decades of consumer data from many regions. Also they get access to a massive distribution network and long standing vendor relationships. Total slam dunk.
There's a finite number of advertising dollars, there's a finite number of eyeballs, and you want to target the most eyeballs per dollar of your target market, so you need to know how they're consuming media/news to do that effectively.
Marketing dollars fund the news companies/channels via the ads they buy, and those companies need to know where the viewers are, so that their sales people know what kind of advertising product/space to marketing buyers.
Television and Radio are known markets, very stable, we have a standard 30 second spot for both radio and TV, you can compare advertising costs in different markets very easily. Web is consumed in two different ways (At least) desktop and mobile, which are two very different use cases and factors, much like surfing at your desk at the office vs listening to the radio on your morning commute. You need to accomodate for those form factors and determine if you're going to do a 50/50 split or 90/10 split.
What this PR release is trying to point out is that seniors, who typically have been in the Television/Radio advertising market, have now begun turning to the mobile advertising market, and marketers should be talking increasingly to the mobile sales guy at the NYT/WSJ/Huff Post etc etc, rather than the television sales guy at Fox News, CNN, CNBC etc etc if you want to target all of the 65 and above demographic.
Given a weaker company with 100% pay and on site childcare, or a stronger company with 90% pay, I would definitely choose the one with on site childcare.
I'm on google fi so I'm stuck with nexus phones, however my Nexus 5x died due to the manufacturing defect so I was stuck with a Moto G4 for three weeks while my project fi officially supported pixel arrived.
I LOVED the moto G4, it's an amazing phone, best phone I've ever owned, and I've owned every Nexus since the Nexus S. The pixel by comparison is kind of sluggish, and the screen scratches like crazy. I'm hoping that the Pixel 2 is less of a piece of garbage but at this point I've given up on Halo phones, the best phones now are the $150-250 sub-premium phones that come with zero bloatware and gimmicky shit. I hate my pixel but keep it simply because text messages work on it with my plan and I need the project fi for international data. I would switch back to the Moto G4 in a heartbeat.
Turns out most people are so bored they will watch just about anything. See also: reality TV craze of the late-90s / early 2000s. Not sure if reality TV is still a thing, moved out of the house shortly after it peaked and never saw the value in paying for cable TV once I had to pay for it myself. I'm sure plenty of people watched at least one episode of this.
Depends on what class of laptop you buy. Did you buy the $399 15" laptop at best buy, or did you buy the $1200 business class laptop (thinkpad, elitebook, XPS etc). I have 30K air miles, 3000 sea miles and probably 200,000 road miles in my 2012-era, i5 Thinkpad over 5 years and wouldn't hesitate to check it for fear of damage. It gets used as a book stop, coffee coaster, paper weight and everything inbetween when not in use.
In major cities, $50 is a steal; $17 x 2 + uber/taxi fare to the theater both ways? $34 + 14 = $48. Plus they've introduced assigned theater seating in my city, which means all the good seats are taken by teenagers with too much time on their hands six weeks in advance.
The little crappy theaters they move the film to after opening weekend doesn't feel much larger than my own TV, seats generally are terrible, and booze costs a fortune there (if they serve it at all). If we do a double date night at the house with this sort of rental yes it's a bit expensive but we can cook food and then watch the movie on the couch. That's a huge win for everyone.
It's a lot easier for developers to throw together a web app that runs in full screen touch mode than finding someone who does systems level C stuff. A compute stick is $99 and has access to the full modern build chain of everything. A raspberry Pi is $40 but needs $60 worth of accessories and is still under-powered at the end of the day. Better to just go with what's easiest. $5 here or $20 there savings for a platform you're paying a developer between $50 and $200 an hour to work on just isn't worth it.
Back in the mid 2000s I worked for a high end art house movie theater, they had a desktop PC hooked up to a pair of 60" plasma HDTVs (this was a big deal back then) running a Macromedia Flash app in full screen mode, that was configured using a text file in notepad and some JPEGs we made ourselves. I can't imagine what some fancy custom thing would have cost back then. Way more than the $400 PC sitting in a dusty cupboard.
In the last 18 months there's been this external USB-C battery renaissance. As long as the seats have ~40w USB-C outlets you should be able to power most-all laptops
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WhatsApp allows voice and video calls over wifi for free
I live in the US and I don't know anyone that uses iMessage. Everyone (iphone, android) has WhatsApp, and it works with all long distance/international users on the first try. Plus unlike SMS you get a delivery confirmation and read receipt for every message. Only a very rare few friends and family don't use WhatsApp.
I might use Twitter if there was a client that was pleasant to use. I find it difficult to navigate using the stock app, and every time a good third party app comes out they seem to shut it down to avoid competition. If I want to read the president's tweets I just google "donald trump twitter" and most of the time someone has already summarized that day's outbursts along with relevant responses from the groups he had targeted that day -- no need to dig in and read the raw data.
I have a twitter account but there's no incentive to login to read the tweet and someone (x1000) has already responded with what I was already thinking so why bother.
Twitter is an interesting take on PRWire but not super interesting.
Hail, bird strikes, random acts of God, manufacturing defects etc etc replacement, plus 20% overhead = less than ideal service life for the panels. The utility companies typically do RTF, or "run to fail" and they need a number that's comfortably below the average design life so that they can budget for the the items listed at the beginning of this post. Any overages in savings go to pay for union worker's raises and benefits.
Really. Everything I've read says he's still using a Galaxy S6 smartphone from his campaign days. People were even doing analysis of which were "real" trump tweets vs "marketing" tweets as the marketing tweets always came from an iphone and the real ones came from the Android client.
Obama, Hillary did in fact use government issued blackberries though
Not a shill, peep that user ID and post history
We're not debating what ACA was trying to accomplish, we're trying to establish if it was a power grab by the federal government, and if so, what (if any) of the status quo changed.
To reiterate on the original poster's point, this is a poor choice of name for use in north america. Most Americans might recognize the name North Star but would find it difficult to draw the connection between that and what Pole Star means in that context.
Coming from Texas where there's not a whole lot of federal government representation (outside of the federal court system) it always stuns me to hear this great hatred of the federal government and I've not understood why a "power grab" that is represented as better health care for everyone. Is this a states' rights issue or who exactly are they stealing power from, and why are you so opposed to it?
Diesel engines (especially on the lower end of the HP range) cost 10x what gasoline engines do, but they only last 3x as long. And yet there's a huge, massive market for diesel engines due to their higher reliability. 20hp gas engine runs about $280-$375 depending on brand and features. 20 hp diesel runs about $3,300. With regular maintenance you will get 2000-3500 hours use from that gas engine before it wears out, while the diesel will probably need a rebuild at 10,000 hours and will happily do another 7,000-8,000 hours on the original block. Just change the oil, coolant and filters every 500 hours or so (500 hours is ~10,000 miles on a car)
It's either a direct allusion to a pole dancer, or indirect one to porn star. I guess in european motorsports pole is associated with finishing first, but a lot of things don't translate well across the pond.
At my last job (where I was still a bachelor and not like now, where I'm in the early family planning stages) I was locked in to a very low rental rate, had no external expenses (car, insurance, health costs etc) and was continuing to live the same (very, very cheap) lifestyle I had when I was unemployed during the 2008 crisis (a couple hundred dollars a month after rent)... if I could have gone down to 30 or even 20 hours a week I may have taken it. I had enough surplus money to travel extensively, but not enough to really save for the downpayment on a house.
If I didn't have to worry about rising rent costs or cost of health insurance (or family planning) I'd probably opt to take the fewest number of hours to meet my living costs + monthly savings quota.
Assuming they sort out the safely issues (I mean we stand on busses and trains and subways moving 50mph... my commuter train regularly tops 70mph here in America) yest take off and landing would be a bit sketch if it's setup the way a subway is, but if you take the time and effort to look at the problem from a new way, maybe add some specialized equipment... maybe it still can't be done, but it's certainly worth looking in to.
If it were safe and say, cost half as much, $150 round trip to Seattle from SF at the gate (not buying in advance) vs $350 or even $500 recently, heck yeah I would be willing to stand for two hours!
The elderly and sick, pregnant mothers, and people in wheelchairs would still have priority seating access of course.
Google News and Weather Underground are my top two sites for general information.
Long ago Wunderground did their "web 2.0" redesign but retained the (much better) classic design at classic.wunderground.com... until they finally axed that in 2015. Now I don't really have a good one page fits all weather site anymore. I was thinking about just writing my own.
Now, Google News was a treasure trove of all the most important stories of the day, with the ability to turn off entertainment (kardashians, hollywood stuff) that was densely packed with lots of alternative stories. Now it is what I've seen best described as "white space heavy". Ugh.
Definitely looking for a new news aggregator, Google News used to be the best, now it's just as bad and useless as yahoo news or any other host of mediocre news sites.
The data density is what made Google News useful and unique, now it's just another "white space heavy" mediocre news page. What garbage. So sad, how the mighty have fallen.
I basically avoid airports now unless I am traveling more than 8 hours by car. It was barely worth it before, it's absolutely not worth it anymore. I submit to airport screenings for international travel, but travel is just miserable now, knowing you have to go through that degrading experience, and will have to do it again on the way home.
I don't think there's much/any overlap between being able to study for a test and being technically proficient. Most of the people coming out of university with comp sci degrees are mostly useless at doing real world tasks, whereas our top developers are all self taught, or have degrees completely unrelated to their profession. The general impression I have of people with uni degrees in comp sci are children with helicopter parents who wanted their kid to have a good job so they held their hand through high school and college to get them that piece of paper at the easiest/cheapest state school and got them a job that will pay their own rent, without teaching them any useful life/work skills.
The self taught ones are working in the industry for very different reasons/life paths.
Old people, when they eat out, typically do so at 4pm in the afternoon far away from normal rush hour
Whole foods has a pretty incredible IT department, they have oodles of data back to at least the late 90s on every customer, purchase, and analysis of purchasing habits etc etc. They're a very big customer of Oracle's. It's hard if not impossible to buy that kind of dataset, and if you intend to move in to, own and dominate brick and mortar retail, you need decades of consumer data from many regions. Also they get access to a massive distribution network and long standing vendor relationships. Total slam dunk.
There's a finite number of advertising dollars, there's a finite number of eyeballs, and you want to target the most eyeballs per dollar of your target market, so you need to know how they're consuming media/news to do that effectively.
Marketing dollars fund the news companies/channels via the ads they buy, and those companies need to know where the viewers are, so that their sales people know what kind of advertising product/space to marketing buyers.
Television and Radio are known markets, very stable, we have a standard 30 second spot for both radio and TV, you can compare advertising costs in different markets very easily. Web is consumed in two different ways (At least) desktop and mobile, which are two very different use cases and factors, much like surfing at your desk at the office vs listening to the radio on your morning commute. You need to accomodate for those form factors and determine if you're going to do a 50/50 split or 90/10 split.
What this PR release is trying to point out is that seniors, who typically have been in the Television/Radio advertising market, have now begun turning to the mobile advertising market, and marketers should be talking increasingly to the mobile sales guy at the NYT/WSJ/Huff Post etc etc, rather than the television sales guy at Fox News, CNN, CNBC etc etc if you want to target all of the 65 and above demographic.
Given a weaker company with 100% pay and on site childcare, or a stronger company with 90% pay, I would definitely choose the one with on site childcare.
I'm on google fi so I'm stuck with nexus phones, however my Nexus 5x died due to the manufacturing defect so I was stuck with a Moto G4 for three weeks while my project fi officially supported pixel arrived.
I LOVED the moto G4, it's an amazing phone, best phone I've ever owned, and I've owned every Nexus since the Nexus S. The pixel by comparison is kind of sluggish, and the screen scratches like crazy. I'm hoping that the Pixel 2 is less of a piece of garbage but at this point I've given up on Halo phones, the best phones now are the $150-250 sub-premium phones that come with zero bloatware and gimmicky shit. I hate my pixel but keep it simply because text messages work on it with my plan and I need the project fi for international data. I would switch back to the Moto G4 in a heartbeat.
Turns out most people are so bored they will watch just about anything. See also: reality TV craze of the late-90s / early 2000s. Not sure if reality TV is still a thing, moved out of the house shortly after it peaked and never saw the value in paying for cable TV once I had to pay for it myself. I'm sure plenty of people watched at least one episode of this.
Depends on what class of laptop you buy. Did you buy the $399 15" laptop at best buy, or did you buy the $1200 business class laptop (thinkpad, elitebook, XPS etc). I have 30K air miles, 3000 sea miles and probably 200,000 road miles in my 2012-era, i5 Thinkpad over 5 years and wouldn't hesitate to check it for fear of damage. It gets used as a book stop, coffee coaster, paper weight and everything inbetween when not in use.
In major cities, $50 is a steal; $17 x 2 + uber/taxi fare to the theater both ways? $34 + 14 = $48. Plus they've introduced assigned theater seating in my city, which means all the good seats are taken by teenagers with too much time on their hands six weeks in advance.
The little crappy theaters they move the film to after opening weekend doesn't feel much larger than my own TV, seats generally are terrible, and booze costs a fortune there (if they serve it at all). If we do a double date night at the house with this sort of rental yes it's a bit expensive but we can cook food and then watch the movie on the couch. That's a huge win for everyone.
It's a lot easier for developers to throw together a web app that runs in full screen touch mode than finding someone who does systems level C stuff. A compute stick is $99 and has access to the full modern build chain of everything. A raspberry Pi is $40 but needs $60 worth of accessories and is still under-powered at the end of the day. Better to just go with what's easiest. $5 here or $20 there savings for a platform you're paying a developer between $50 and $200 an hour to work on just isn't worth it.
Back in the mid 2000s I worked for a high end art house movie theater, they had a desktop PC hooked up to a pair of 60" plasma HDTVs (this was a big deal back then) running a Macromedia Flash app in full screen mode, that was configured using a text file in notepad and some JPEGs we made ourselves. I can't imagine what some fancy custom thing would have cost back then. Way more than the $400 PC sitting in a dusty cupboard.
In the last 18 months there's been this external USB-C battery renaissance. As long as the seats have ~40w USB-C outlets you should be able to power most-all laptops