It is myriad - as in myriad bad test results, not a myriad bad test results; didn't you pay attention in skool?
Really what happened was the time honored tradition of slashdot posts leaving out words in the article/title. In this particular case the phrase was probably supposed to be "a myriad of bad test results".
Amazon warehouses hire people on temporary contracts through a temp agency just before christmas and then lays them off in January.
So does UPS, Fed Ex, many major airlines, and other shipping/travel related companies. It's called seasonal positions. In fact, seasonal work was what eventually led to the job I have now which pays pretty well for someone my age/in my area.
"Members of the secret metadata trust.. we have Sheramil's Acrobat usage information right here! Let's see.. documentation for mom's smart tv... a pirate copy of Frank Herbert's 'Dune Encyclopedia'... uh... D.Gingery's book on metal lathes.. very well! How do we monetize this information?"
*crickets*
"Ah, screw it. We will just tell the government that he is planning to use his metalworking skills to turn a smart TV into a smuggling device for drugs(street name 'spice') and get a nice little reward from the government. Might as well make some money off of this."
They are important to the company (that's why they make that huge salary).
Janitors are important too, but look at what they make. A CEO not showing up for two months while he has a vacation in southern France and no one would notice. All the toilets in the company overflowing for two months and that would cause serious productivity damages.
So why are executives "important" if their absence is not missed?
A janitor is a cog. They can be easily replaced, and in most cases aren't even part of the company: most major companies outsource cleaning. Now, of course my comment was mostly sarcastic, as we all know that most cogs tend to do much more work than those higher ups.
In theory, the people up the chain of command get a huge salary because they are responsible when something breaks.
in practice, they get to blame you.
Of course. They are important to the company (that's why they make that huge salary). The company can't afford to lose them. However some cog way down the chain of command that makes a fraction of what they do (and thereby obviously isn't as important to the company as they are) is easily replaced so they are the ones that get blamed and get fired. Even if they do "resign", they get a seven or eight figure buyout and land somewhere else a few months later after taking a nice long vacation.
The common cavendish Banana is also a clone. all of them are genetically identical.
Don't forget that there is also a blight currently spreading through banana farms right now that is destroying crops. Since all these bananas are clones it spreads easily and none of them are able to defend against it.
Boy, the quality of the food must have increased markedly since I was in school in the 90s. The only edible thing was the Lucky Charms.
I went to school out in the country. The biscuits and gravy seemed to be popular (I found the gravy somewhat bland though), as was the pizza and stir fry. Really good chicken and dumplings and fried chicken, too.
Exactly. Colleges and universities, and especially frat houses, are full of morbidly obese fat kids. This is explained by their exceptionally high consumption of alcohol.
Or by the fact that most colleges have meal plans that are essentially all you can eat which leads to overeating since the food is "free" for the student (free as in not out of pocket since loans,parents, scholarships or whatever are paying for the meal plan as part of tuition/room/board)
Also, has LG kicked in some money for advertising here lately? First their threatening to include wifi on everything, now a point by point presentation about their OLED sets.
To be fair the "article" does mention Sony's OLED TVs (oh, but it just so happens they use LG displays so hey, LG still make some money off those too). Personally I was tempted to tag "ad" to this story.
I'm one of the few diehards that likes to listen to FM radio because its simple, couple buttons to press in the car and someone else chooses the music. I'll put up with ads for that.
Doesn't really help too much when, of the 4 rock stations in your major metropolitan city, 2 stations are actually just 1 station broadcasting on 2 sides of the city (and plays mostly popish/folky "alt" rock to boot), 1 mostly plays classic rock, and the 4 was changed over to yet another pop station when we already have 2 (and several times you can now hear the exact same song playing at the same time on all 3 pop stations). There's no variety in FM radio for music any more.
Plumbing, welding, electrician, A&P, etc. All jobs that are in high and constant demand, offer a chance for pretty good earning potential, and can't be offshored. Depending on which one you choose you even have the option of starting your own business down the line.
And +1000 for using the PIN, very disconcerting to wake up in the morning to find a drunk forum post, how much more so if you find a drunk order for 2000 inflatable Heidi Klum dolls.
You really should use Ali Baba for a purchase that large, since you could probably get a bulk discount straight from the manufacturer. Plus you can use the money you saved on more alcohol!
So, with all that wasted space on the base, why did they go with that ugly keyboard/touchpad layout instead of using a full-sized keyboard with the touchpad below that? Most people are going to be using that thing on a desk/table so will most likely use a USB or bluetooth mouse instead of the touchpad anyway.
Any potential innovation costs money and fails to produce the same levels of profit as existing products will be seen as a failure, so Apple is stuck doing nothing because its the most profitable thing in the short term.
The problem seems to be by the time the highly profitable products stop producing huge levels of profit they won't have any new products available because no innovation is likely to produce the same profits, so they don't do any innovation as it will be only a cost or cut in overall profitability.
What I'm curious is whether investors will be happy with innovation-less profit or whether they will respond to public criticism of lack of innovation and put pressure on Cook to pursue more meaningful innovation even if it hurts short term profitability. And more meaningful innovation means real stuff, not grinding users for headphone dongles or new wireless headphones.
The funny thing is with all the cash they have on hand Apple could easily fund R&D and innovation without impacting profits at all. Who knows, 10-20 years from now Apple might turn into the new Microsoft because they've spent the time coasting along on inertia rather than trying to find something new.
If you want me to go to the movie theatre then do two things. Improve the whole theatre experience and make better movies.
A lot of towns now have higher-end movie theaters with oversized reclining chairs with food and (alcoholic) beverage service in the theater. You pay a premium of course in regards to tickets(but not too bad) and the food is a bit pricey(this is where they make their money), but that helps guarantee you have a reduced chance of loud obnoxious kids or people yapping on cell phones because they are actually there for the movie/relaxing experience and have paid good money to do so. Plus with the wait staff occasionally moving around in the theater it also helps deter people from pulling out phones.
The new Toyota Tacomas are the same size as my 4 door full cab 2006 Toyota Tundra was. The new midsized pickups are old full size, these new full size pickups are damn near tractor trailer rigs.
I would, but it will be massively overpriced for what you get, especially for a Ford. I don't need a work site truck, I just want an electric truck I can commute to work with and do some light hauling for large items for/around the house. Because let's be honest: most people that own trucks never get close to doing the things they show in truck commercials.
If true, this raises the ethical question of America justifying meddling in the next Russian Presidential Election in 2018, or the one after that.
That's cute. You think there's going to be another Russian election soon. Don't you know Putin has pretty much assured he will be in power as long as he wants?
The Russians, if they did anything, didn't hack the election, they increased the elections truthyness!
All the leaked stuff, no one denies it was true.
So the USA wants to punish Russia for making US voters aware of inconvenient truths huh? Nice 'freedom' you have there!
I have dirt on 2 people both running in an election. The information I have on them is true, potentially damaging to both campaigns, but not known to the electorate. I decide to release the information that only pertains to the candidate I do not support. Now, I am not lying or fabricating anything and anything I am releasing is true, but you cannot deny that I have affected the outcome of the election by doing so. This is what the White House is accusing Russia of doing.
You asked for Muslim-majority democracies. Those states that I listed all have elected governments. If they are less free it is because they chose so. That's one reason why the US isn't very popular in the rest of the world: we spout on and on about democracy, but whenever a state elects a government or ruler we don't like we call foul. We have to decide what we want for the world: let people chose their own government (very often against their best interests as we just saw for ourselves less than 2 months ago), or force Western-style liberal democracy on people against their will-which of course is kind of the antithesis of democracy to begin with.
The difference is: the Bible has a New Testament. It's primary message? Scripture can be hard to interpret, so if you think it's telling you to hurt someone, that's how you know you're reading it wrong. That Jesus guy just wouldn't shut up about this: turn the other cheek, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, etc., etc.
The Koran desperately needs its own New Testament, just as Islam desperately needs it's own Reformation. That can only happen from within, of course, but we should recognize it for what it is.
Just in 2016 there were 2455 Islamic attacks in 60 countries, in which 21152 people were killed and 26499 injured. If that number surprises you, it's because the western press doesn't care to report attacks without western victims. Your false equivalence is obvious and foolish.
If all those rules of the OT aren't important, then why did the Council of Nicaea and subsequent generations of scholars and clergy leave them in there? The OT is still part of the Bible, so by choosing not to follow those rules you are proving my point that both religions pick and choose (and different followers of the religions choose differently than others) which to follow. As for Jesus saying turn the other cheek, you are correct. But simply read the Wikipedia page on the Bible and Violence and you will see how Christians have still chose to interpret the Bible as advocating violence, and the page on Christianity and violence is also enlightening.
Personally, I am of the opinion that, as Islam is roughly 600 years newer than Christianity, if we look at what the Chrsitian world was like 600 years ago there are a lot of parallels between Christianity then and Islam now. Christianity had its reformation which left it a much less violent and (as it has modernized) more tolerant religion (there is of course a lot of intolerance left). Islam has the dual issue of not having gone through a reformation and being judged on modern terms while still in it's ancient form. The problem is that change has to come from within and it has to come organically, it can't be forced. And right now I don't see any indications of anything that could cause that change. Maybe if the Mosul Dam collapses and kills hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and displaces millions more it may be apocalyptic enough and attributable to ISIS (and therefore extremist Islam) that it might trigger a reformation or a rise of moderate Islam, but even that is a bit of a stretch.
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It is myriad - as in myriad bad test results, not a myriad bad test results; didn't you pay attention in skool?
Really what happened was the time honored tradition of slashdot posts leaving out words in the article/title. In this particular case the phrase was probably supposed to be "a myriad of bad test results".
Amazon warehouses hire people on temporary contracts through a temp agency just before christmas and then lays them off in January.
So does UPS, Fed Ex, many major airlines, and other shipping/travel related companies. It's called seasonal positions. In fact, seasonal work was what eventually led to the job I have now which pays pretty well for someone my age/in my area.
"Members of the secret metadata trust.. we have Sheramil's Acrobat usage information right here! Let's see.. documentation for mom's smart tv... a pirate copy of Frank Herbert's 'Dune Encyclopedia'... uh... D.Gingery's book on metal lathes.. very well! How do we monetize this information?" *crickets*
"Ah, screw it. We will just tell the government that he is planning to use his metalworking skills to turn a smart TV into a smuggling device for drugs(street name 'spice') and get a nice little reward from the government. Might as well make some money off of this."
They are important to the company (that's why they make that huge salary).
Janitors are important too, but look at what they make. A CEO not showing up for two months while he has a vacation in southern France and no one would notice. All the toilets in the company overflowing for two months and that would cause serious productivity damages.
So why are executives "important" if their absence is not missed?
A janitor is a cog. They can be easily replaced, and in most cases aren't even part of the company: most major companies outsource cleaning. Now, of course my comment was mostly sarcastic, as we all know that most cogs tend to do much more work than those higher ups.
In theory, the people up the chain of command get a huge salary because they are responsible when something breaks. in practice, they get to blame you.
Of course. They are important to the company (that's why they make that huge salary). The company can't afford to lose them. However some cog way down the chain of command that makes a fraction of what they do (and thereby obviously isn't as important to the company as they are) is easily replaced so they are the ones that get blamed and get fired. Even if they do "resign", they get a seven or eight figure buyout and land somewhere else a few months later after taking a nice long vacation.
The common cavendish Banana is also a clone. all of them are genetically identical.
Don't forget that there is also a blight currently spreading through banana farms right now that is destroying crops. Since all these bananas are clones it spreads easily and none of them are able to defend against it.
Exactly. Why do people think they need to be white knights for Uber drivers? Uber drivers know what they are doing.
Your post reminds me of this clip from Airplane.
Boy, the quality of the food must have increased markedly since I was in school in the 90s. The only edible thing was the Lucky Charms.
I went to school out in the country. The biscuits and gravy seemed to be popular (I found the gravy somewhat bland though), as was the pizza and stir fry. Really good chicken and dumplings and fried chicken, too.
Exactly. Colleges and universities, and especially frat houses, are full of morbidly obese fat kids. This is explained by their exceptionally high consumption of alcohol.
Or by the fact that most colleges have meal plans that are essentially all you can eat which leads to overeating since the food is "free" for the student (free as in not out of pocket since loans,parents, scholarships or whatever are paying for the meal plan as part of tuition/room/board)
If this study were done in America you wouldn't even need mice. Just go into any Waffle House at 2am.
Also, has LG kicked in some money for advertising here lately? First their threatening to include wifi on everything, now a point by point presentation about their OLED sets.
To be fair the "article" does mention Sony's OLED TVs (oh, but it just so happens they use LG displays so hey, LG still make some money off those too). Personally I was tempted to tag "ad" to this story.
I'm one of the few diehards that likes to listen to FM radio because its simple, couple buttons to press in the car and someone else chooses the music. I'll put up with ads for that.
Doesn't really help too much when, of the 4 rock stations in your major metropolitan city, 2 stations are actually just 1 station broadcasting on 2 sides of the city (and plays mostly popish/folky "alt" rock to boot), 1 mostly plays classic rock, and the 4 was changed over to yet another pop station when we already have 2 (and several times you can now hear the exact same song playing at the same time on all 3 pop stations). There's no variety in FM radio for music any more.
Plumbing, welding, electrician, A&P, etc. All jobs that are in high and constant demand, offer a chance for pretty good earning potential, and can't be offshored. Depending on which one you choose you even have the option of starting your own business down the line.
And +1000 for using the PIN, very disconcerting to wake up in the morning to find a drunk forum post, how much more so if you find a drunk order for 2000 inflatable Heidi Klum dolls.
You really should use Ali Baba for a purchase that large, since you could probably get a bulk discount straight from the manufacturer. Plus you can use the money you saved on more alcohol!
So, with all that wasted space on the base, why did they go with that ugly keyboard/touchpad layout instead of using a full-sized keyboard with the touchpad below that? Most people are going to be using that thing on a desk/table so will most likely use a USB or bluetooth mouse instead of the touchpad anyway.
Any potential innovation costs money and fails to produce the same levels of profit as existing products will be seen as a failure, so Apple is stuck doing nothing because its the most profitable thing in the short term.
The problem seems to be by the time the highly profitable products stop producing huge levels of profit they won't have any new products available because no innovation is likely to produce the same profits, so they don't do any innovation as it will be only a cost or cut in overall profitability.
What I'm curious is whether investors will be happy with innovation-less profit or whether they will respond to public criticism of lack of innovation and put pressure on Cook to pursue more meaningful innovation even if it hurts short term profitability. And more meaningful innovation means real stuff, not grinding users for headphone dongles or new wireless headphones.
The funny thing is with all the cash they have on hand Apple could easily fund R&D and innovation without impacting profits at all. Who knows, 10-20 years from now Apple might turn into the new Microsoft because they've spent the time coasting along on inertia rather than trying to find something new.
On the other hand, Piracy warnings seem to have been correlated with a notable increase in interest in Downloadable Cars.
I think the only proper response to those "You wouldn't download a car..." ads is "Of course not. 3D printers aren't good enough yet."
If you want me to go to the movie theatre then do two things. Improve the whole theatre experience and make better movies.
A lot of towns now have higher-end movie theaters with oversized reclining chairs with food and (alcoholic) beverage service in the theater. You pay a premium of course in regards to tickets(but not too bad) and the food is a bit pricey(this is where they make their money), but that helps guarantee you have a reduced chance of loud obnoxious kids or people yapping on cell phones because they are actually there for the movie/relaxing experience and have paid good money to do so. Plus with the wait staff occasionally moving around in the theater it also helps deter people from pulling out phones.
The new Toyota Tacomas are the same size as my 4 door full cab 2006 Toyota Tundra was. The new midsized pickups are old full size, these new full size pickups are damn near tractor trailer rigs.
I would, but it will be massively overpriced for what you get, especially for a Ford. I don't need a work site truck, I just want an electric truck I can commute to work with and do some light hauling for large items for/around the house. Because let's be honest: most people that own trucks never get close to doing the things they show in truck commercials.
If true, this raises the ethical question of America justifying meddling in the next Russian Presidential Election in 2018, or the one after that.
That's cute. You think there's going to be another Russian election soon. Don't you know Putin has pretty much assured he will be in power as long as he wants?
This is a site for nerds, who sit in their parents' basements all day watching Star Track.
Is that astronauts racing each other during EVAs or people on the ISS running on treadmills? Either way, sounds pretty boring.
The Russians, if they did anything, didn't hack the election, they increased the elections truthyness!
All the leaked stuff, no one denies it was true.
So the USA wants to punish Russia for making US voters aware of inconvenient truths huh? Nice 'freedom' you have there!
I have dirt on 2 people both running in an election. The information I have on them is true, potentially damaging to both campaigns, but not known to the electorate. I decide to release the information that only pertains to the candidate I do not support. Now, I am not lying or fabricating anything and anything I am releasing is true, but you cannot deny that I have affected the outcome of the election by doing so. This is what the White House is accusing Russia of doing.
You asked for Muslim-majority democracies. Those states that I listed all have elected governments. If they are less free it is because they chose so. That's one reason why the US isn't very popular in the rest of the world: we spout on and on about democracy, but whenever a state elects a government or ruler we don't like we call foul. We have to decide what we want for the world: let people chose their own government (very often against their best interests as we just saw for ourselves less than 2 months ago), or force Western-style liberal democracy on people against their will-which of course is kind of the antithesis of democracy to begin with.
The difference is: the Bible has a New Testament. It's primary message? Scripture can be hard to interpret, so if you think it's telling you to hurt someone, that's how you know you're reading it wrong. That Jesus guy just wouldn't shut up about this: turn the other cheek, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, etc., etc.
The Koran desperately needs its own New Testament, just as Islam desperately needs it's own Reformation. That can only happen from within, of course, but we should recognize it for what it is.
Just in 2016 there were 2455 Islamic attacks in 60 countries, in which 21152 people were killed and 26499 injured. If that number surprises you, it's because the western press doesn't care to report attacks without western victims. Your false equivalence is obvious and foolish.
If all those rules of the OT aren't important, then why did the Council of Nicaea and subsequent generations of scholars and clergy leave them in there? The OT is still part of the Bible, so by choosing not to follow those rules you are proving my point that both religions pick and choose (and different followers of the religions choose differently than others) which to follow. As for Jesus saying turn the other cheek, you are correct. But simply read the Wikipedia page on the Bible and Violence and you will see how Christians have still chose to interpret the Bible as advocating violence, and the page on Christianity and violence is also enlightening.
Personally, I am of the opinion that, as Islam is roughly 600 years newer than Christianity, if we look at what the Chrsitian world was like 600 years ago there are a lot of parallels between Christianity then and Islam now. Christianity had its reformation which left it a much less violent and (as it has modernized) more tolerant religion (there is of course a lot of intolerance left). Islam has the dual issue of not having gone through a reformation and being judged on modern terms while still in it's ancient form. The problem is that change has to come from within and it has to come organically, it can't be forced. And right now I don't see any indications of anything that could cause that change. Maybe if the Mosul Dam collapses and kills hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and displaces millions more it may be apocalyptic enough and attributable to ISIS (and therefore extremist Islam) that it might trigger a reformation or a rise of moderate Islam, but even that is a bit of a stretch.