Honestly, do so many people have such a slow computer that they have to care for such minor speed differences?
Seriously. I just switched from a 95 watt Phenom II x4 to a 45 watt Athlon II x2 because I wanted a quieter computer that wasn't warm to the touch. As it turns out, it's not only less wasteful but I can't even discern any performance decrease.
A break now and then to have a "hallway meeting" to socialize, go bowling down the hallway, or attack fellow co-workers with Nerf weapons is great for stress relief and can even boost productivity on a bad day
These are usually just a cheap way to distract people from the fact that their pay is terrible. Maybe I get 32k to be a computer programmer, but this foosball table sure is fun!
since the business still has its head over the water then maybe it should lay you off to cut costs and bring more value back to the shareholders.
Fire an executive and hire 100 productive employees for the same price as the single executive. All they do is draw huge paychecks while accomplishing absolutely nothing.
Smart criminals exist. We call them politicians and executives.
But they're not criminals: they are acting according to the logic of the system in which they exist. They are rewarded for their behavior by social prominence and an abundance of wealth, not punished for it like a burglar both by social stigma and the prison. If we didn't live in a place that both culturally and economically encourages the behavior, people like that would appear to no longer exist; they would be the pariahs on the fringe, unknown to all but the few who are forced to interact with them (perhaps victims, police, and fellow criminals who lack other social outlets).
When adopted, the motto was believed to be Latin and assumed to mean "Fairness, Justice, Equality" or "Justice, Friendship, Equality". Actually, the motto is a grammatically impossible and hardly translatable sequence of Latin words; the current interpretation is the best that could be made of it.
I don't really understand the point of pharmaceutical companies even having Facebook pages.
Because everybody wants one. For the same reason you've got those "share" buttons on every page you visit. Marketing people don't care that they're obnoxious and that nobody pays attention to them.
lmao batka is no "omnipotent moral busybody" he just happens to be a competent head of state with a strong enough nationalist streak that he won't let the EU shit all over his country. as if a robber baron (or any person of power) thinks himself to be immoral in the first place.
I say this is part of the de-skilling of programming. I use PHP all day every day at work. It has builtin functions that handle basically anything difficult I would ever need to do, thus largely eliminating the need for the CS education I have. Once HR realizes any jackass can write a working PHP application, salaries are really going to tumble.
The more power and control is given to the browser, the more complex they become, and the less likely it is that different browsers will be able to provide the same experience
This isn't necessarily true. After all, there is the historical counterexample of Java. While it isn't particularly popular for desktop applications these days, it did manage to provide the same applications on any OS with a JVM without any serious discrepancies. It's certainly possible for this stuff to work out very well, we just don't have much faith in the browser makers, for good reason.
How can...holding the Congress hostage to push a social health care bill exempt him from being a socialist?
The same way it did for Otto von Bismarck: he created social welfare programs to improve the condition of the working class without destabilizing the bourgeoisie. The whole point was to draw them away from the socialists and give them less incentive to radicalize, thus buttressing the empire from internal collapse. Perhaps a left-wing concession, but completely on behalf of a conservative realpolitik. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck#Paternalistic_welfare_state
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It's hard to use the computer when you find up the damn browser is eating half of your 4 Gigs of RAM
No it isn't. Stop watching the graphs and you won't even know.
Honestly, do so many people have such a slow computer that they have to care for such minor speed differences?
Seriously. I just switched from a 95 watt Phenom II x4 to a 45 watt Athlon II x2 because I wanted a quieter computer that wasn't warm to the touch.
As it turns out, it's not only less wasteful but I can't even discern any performance decrease.
Try firing up Firefox with 10-12 tabs and see it slowly, but steadly, eating you memory up.
Good! RAM is made to be used. This means your computer is working as intended.
Stop watching system graphs and just use the computer.
I can hear the girls swooning now.
"Oh, this? I paid 3x as much as anyone else pays for their laptop so that I can play lots of video games."
Looks like y'all followed our example real well
But I've always been under the impression that nucular engineers are very intelligent.
I'll just have to stick with the one wife.
How do you start with atheism and end up at polygamy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy#Religion
lmao yes teachers get paid as much as possible (about 30k with a master's degree and certificate where i live)
A break now and then to have a "hallway meeting" to socialize, go bowling down the hallway, or attack fellow co-workers with Nerf weapons is great for stress relief and can even boost productivity on a bad day
These are usually just a cheap way to distract people from the fact that their pay is terrible. Maybe I get 32k to be a computer programmer, but this foosball table sure is fun!
since the business still has its head over the water then maybe it should lay you off to cut costs and bring more value back to the shareholders.
Fire an executive and hire 100 productive employees for the same price as the single executive. All they do is draw huge paychecks while accomplishing absolutely nothing.
Smart criminals exist. We call them politicians and executives.
But they're not criminals: they are acting according to the logic of the system in which they exist. They are rewarded for their behavior by social prominence and an abundance of wealth, not punished for it like a burglar both by social stigma and the prison. If we didn't live in a place that both culturally and economically encourages the behavior, people like that would appear to no longer exist; they would be the pariahs on the fringe, unknown to all but the few who are forced to interact with them (perhaps victims, police, and fellow criminals who lack other social outlets).
And toy tie-ins: it's made of Legos, according to the photograph
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_power_station
I'm surprised this wasn't about someone trying to create electrical infrastructure for one of those libertopia floating cities in the ocean
Evidence of our slow but inevitable descent towards Idiocracy.
I don't take a stupid op-ed as evidence of anything except that the NYT is unsurprisingly still shit
From the Fraternal Order of Police on Wikipedia:
When adopted, the motto was believed to be Latin and assumed to mean "Fairness, Justice, Equality" or "Justice, Friendship, Equality". Actually, the motto is a grammatically impossible and hardly translatable sequence of Latin words; the current interpretation is the best that could be made of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_Order_of_Police#Emblem_and_motto
I don't really understand the point of pharmaceutical companies even having Facebook pages.
Because everybody wants one. For the same reason you've got those "share" buttons on every page you visit. Marketing people don't care that they're obnoxious and that nobody pays attention to them.
He's making a Slashdot comment, not a synthesizer
these things need to be told to your doctor, not a facebook page
Tell it to both (and more), unless you really think that telling only your doctor has any chance of getting a dangerous and ineffective drug recalled.
lmao batka is no "omnipotent moral busybody" he just happens to be a competent head of state with a strong enough nationalist streak that he won't let the EU shit all over his country. as if a robber baron (or any person of power) thinks himself to be immoral in the first place.
go read a narnia, fuckko
I say this is part of the de-skilling of programming. I use PHP all day every day at work. It has builtin functions that handle basically anything difficult I would ever need to do, thus largely eliminating the need for the CS education I have. Once HR realizes any jackass can write a working PHP application, salaries are really going to tumble.
No, he's talking about what'll happen to his waist later. After he eats the cookies, that is.
Farting for gas, not oil
The more power and control is given to the browser, the more complex they become, and the less likely it is that different browsers will be able to provide the same experience
This isn't necessarily true. After all, there is the historical counterexample of Java. While it isn't particularly popular for desktop applications these days, it did manage to provide the same applications on any OS with a JVM without any serious discrepancies. It's certainly possible for this stuff to work out very well, we just don't have much faith in the browser makers, for good reason.
What can your full-size box offer me that I don't already have?
A development environment and any type of software you can possibly imagine, all for free and with source code.
How can...holding the Congress hostage to push a social health care bill exempt him from being a socialist?
The same way it did for Otto von Bismarck: he created social welfare programs to improve the condition of the working class without destabilizing the bourgeoisie. The whole point was to draw them away from the socialists and give them less incentive to radicalize, thus buttressing the empire from internal collapse. Perhaps a left-wing concession, but completely on behalf of a conservative realpolitik.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck#Paternalistic_welfare_state