You mean, nowadays you can't get documented workers to break their back on farms, under deplorable working conditions, for a tiny paycheck and no benefits. FTFY.
As a farm owner, I have to respectfully disagree. Check out the H2-A program. Though many labor contractors choose to not use this program, when they do, one requirement is to advertise the job to US citizens first. Typically, they can fill about 10% of the applications, and then a small fraction of those will actually complete the job.
Good wages and benefits don't alleviate the work involved with many farm labor jobs (try picking avocados commercially, or hand weeding a field for a day sometime). For better or worse, Americans are not physically capable of doing the work that the Mexican laborers are doing. We used to be able to, but life has gotten too easy for us and we don't have the same fortitude.
That is not meant as a slight to the American people (I am one also), it's just the same as not being able to drink the water in Mexico as a gringo. We don't do it, so we can't do it.
If we change our attitude toward work, there is certainly nothing stopping us from regaining this ability, but you fool yourself if you think you can do it now.
So what you are really saying is the population will be much lower since it will be too warm to support life?
That's great! Now we don't have to worry about that pesky global warming problem. Mother nature already has a plan all worked out. Once our population reduces, we won't have the ability to push as much carbon into the atmosphere, thereby cooling the planet.:-)
Sorry to be pessimistic, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
If you ever coded Conway's game of life, you know there are only two possible outcomes - infinite (the earth will cool to the point of absolute zero at some point or heat to the point of turning to a vapor and dispersing) or it will reach a governed stasis (the earth has some naturally occurring phenomenon that moderates our temperature). Historically, it looks like the latter, since we have had both ice and warm ages which it has recovered from. Therefore, while I wholeheartedly agree we are experiencing a climate change, we are mere children when it comes to understanding the real causes and ultimate effects. We may do our best (worst?) to try to overheat the planet only to find it cools as a result because the cloud cover ultimately shades out the sun (or some other completely unexpected outcome).
Or we could just ban SUVs. That would achieve the same goal and not make me drive something that cannot corner for shit.
Great idea! I'll start towing my 25' travel trailer with my BMW Z3. That should be a lot safer!
One small suggestion - don't drive in front of me if I need to emergency stop. If I am towing using a subcompact, I'll have to use you as an intertia reducing device.
This could be a real boon to photography, even for us photo snobs who like to take very small depth of field pictures for the artistic effects. Sensors are getting to the point where they are being restricted by the granularity of the glass, so we seem to have pixels to spare compared to the viewing medium (mostly our PC screens these days) - http://www.dpreview.com/news/1008/10082410canon120mpsensor.asp
It would be great if these two technologies can dovetail in a way that I can get a high resolution (6-8 megapixel equivalent in current terms) picture with the ability to pick both my depth of field and focal point post processing.
Sorry, you lost me in the middle there. I agree that a lot of businesses use Asterisk, and in my business (call centers), a lot of companies use Asterisk in interesting ways such as bridging between systems.
What was the bit about Avaya though? Avaya does not use Asterisk in any way that I am aware of. They build their own proprietary (yes some are Linux based) systems, not open source / Asterisk based.
Hardwood is also a real possibility. I am in the process of testing frames made of baltic birch ply, and have achieved 2.6 pound frames so far with good rigidity. It's not ground breaking, check out http://renovobikes.com/ for real works of art that are very ridable.
As an application designer, I'd like data this too. It would be great to get feedback on long pauses when in the middle of a process. For a real example, most of us suffer from the ribbon bar in Microsoft Office. What used to be a 3 second task is now a minute wasted trying to find the option in the ribbon bar, followed by resolving it in 3 seconds like before.
If they got feedback that the first time it was this slow, but then subsequently it took 2 seconds every time, great - we can chock it up to learning curve. However, I suspect they would find it consistently takes longer to poke around the ribbon bar and would come to the conclusion it sucks and we could go back to the perfectly useful menu system.
Conversely, I watch my 3 year old nephew pick up an iphone, swipe through two pages of icons, pick the one he wants, and start playing the game. No pauses, no hesitation. That seems to me they captured how (at least a 3 year old) intuitively works.
I do focus groups all the time, but this only lets me capture users at a specific point in time. If we could get this level of feedback from a built in usage library (without affecting performance), I think we could all do a better job of UI design that is intuitive.
Don't know what your aesthetic opinion of this car is, but I am seriously thinking about this one - Tesla Model S.
I think I'll wait a year and see if it is as good in production as it is on paper. The roadster is living up to reasonable expectations, so I think its likely this will too.
2) wait for global warming (sorry, climate change) to make it more comfortable for the batteries where you are. (and we'll join you there when it happens)
Sorry to *whoosh* on you, but there is something insidious about their comment even beyond the humor you so aptly pointed out.
What the white house is admitting is that they feel we work for them, not the other way round. Asked directly they deny this, but their actions speak loudly.
Just curious, how many of us use a cell phone while driving (regularly, not for emergencies), so they are in fact against the idea itself, not the possible shortcomings of the implementation?
You ask a very good question - poverty is proably the biggest reason political / religious leaders are able to convince their followers to commit acts of atrocity.
I have a question on implementation though - the world GDP was 60 trillion in 2008 (Adjusted to US dollars). Population at that time was 6.7 billion.
That means the average income per person is about $9,000. Or a family of four is $28,000. The US federal definition of poverty for a family of four is $22,000 (more if you're from California like I am).
Thus, if we want to defeat poverty, we can't just 'share the wealth', even from obscenely rich people. It would just mean we are all poor.
Do you think the republicans are right that the only way to achieve this is to grow our way out of it? Lower taxes so businesses hire more workers?
Should we all lower our standard of living so our costs are in line with the rest of the world? (any volunteers?)
Actually, both parent and grandparent are correct.
IT is a support function of the company. IT personnel should do everything in their power to help the company make more profit. If that means making an extra effort so a salesguy can use his cool new phone so he works harder, do it. If it means saying no to the sales guy who wants to give a prospect a $50,000 piece of equipment to make a $10,000 sale, tell them no.
Its a pretty simple formula if you keep it always at the forefront of your thinking.
Actually, my wife was a victim of this type of scam recently. They systematically cleaned our entire checking account out.
I, like you, felt that the bank's money was stolen, not ours. I put my money in the bank, and had not withdrawn it, so this was essentially a remote bank robbery in my opinion.
Where it gets interesting is this is EXACTLY how the bank treated it. They immediately refunded all money to the account, and then went after the fraud on the other end of the transaction.
Not sure if all banks treat you this way, but B of A did us right. (And they are usually listed as the most evil of providers, so I tend to think they are not unique).
I think identity theft was a real problem 10 years ago before it was understood, but now the banks realize it is not fraud by the victim in most cases and deal with it fairly.
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You mean, nowadays you can't get documented workers to break their back on farms, under deplorable working conditions, for a tiny paycheck and no benefits. FTFY.
As a farm owner, I have to respectfully disagree. Check out the H2-A program. Though many labor contractors choose to not use this program, when they do, one requirement is to advertise the job to US citizens first. Typically, they can fill about 10% of the applications, and then a small fraction of those will actually complete the job.
Good wages and benefits don't alleviate the work involved with many farm labor jobs (try picking avocados commercially, or hand weeding a field for a day sometime). For better or worse, Americans are not physically capable of doing the work that the Mexican laborers are doing. We used to be able to, but life has gotten too easy for us and we don't have the same fortitude.
That is not meant as a slight to the American people (I am one also), it's just the same as not being able to drink the water in Mexico as a gringo. We don't do it, so we can't do it.
If we change our attitude toward work, there is certainly nothing stopping us from regaining this ability, but you fool yourself if you think you can do it now.
That's great! Now we don't have to worry about that pesky global warming problem. Mother nature already has a plan all worked out. Once our population reduces, we won't have the ability to push as much carbon into the atmosphere, thereby cooling the planet. :-)
Sorry to be pessimistic, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
If you ever coded Conway's game of life, you know there are only two possible outcomes - infinite (the earth will cool to the point of absolute zero at some point or heat to the point of turning to a vapor and dispersing) or it will reach a governed stasis (the earth has some naturally occurring phenomenon that moderates our temperature). Historically, it looks like the latter, since we have had both ice and warm ages which it has recovered from. Therefore, while I wholeheartedly agree we are experiencing a climate change, we are mere children when it comes to understanding the real causes and ultimate effects. We may do our best (worst?) to try to overheat the planet only to find it cools as a result because the cloud cover ultimately shades out the sun (or some other completely unexpected outcome).
Thanks, I was trying to figure out what San Francisco authors had to do with science fiction. Must be a local thing to think of SF as San Francisco.
There are cars that can detect if you farted and adjust the air conditioning accordingly. http://www.automobilesreview.com/auto-news/2011-infiniti-m-forest-air-conditioning-system/19071/ I'd say intelligent cars are here, or at least that's what my wife told me to say.
Or we could just ban SUVs. That would achieve the same goal and not make me drive something that cannot corner for shit.
Great idea! I'll start towing my 25' travel trailer with my BMW Z3. That should be a lot safer!
One small suggestion - don't drive in front of me if I need to emergency stop. If I am towing using a subcompact, I'll have to use you as an intertia reducing device.
It would be great if these two technologies can dovetail in a way that I can get a high resolution (6-8 megapixel equivalent in current terms) picture with the ability to pick both my depth of field and focal point post processing.
Whoosh.
What was the bit about Avaya though? Avaya does not use Asterisk in any way that I am aware of. They build their own proprietary (yes some are Linux based) systems, not open source / Asterisk based.
If I missed something, I'd love an update.
Hardwood is also a real possibility. I am in the process of testing frames made of baltic birch ply, and have achieved 2.6 pound frames so far with good rigidity. It's not ground breaking, check out http://renovobikes.com/ for real works of art that are very ridable.
If they got feedback that the first time it was this slow, but then subsequently it took 2 seconds every time, great - we can chock it up to learning curve. However, I suspect they would find it consistently takes longer to poke around the ribbon bar and would come to the conclusion it sucks and we could go back to the perfectly useful menu system.
Conversely, I watch my 3 year old nephew pick up an iphone, swipe through two pages of icons, pick the one he wants, and start playing the game. No pauses, no hesitation. That seems to me they captured how (at least a 3 year old) intuitively works.
I do focus groups all the time, but this only lets me capture users at a specific point in time. If we could get this level of feedback from a built in usage library (without affecting performance), I think we could all do a better job of UI design that is intuitive.
I think I'll wait a year and see if it is as good in production as it is on paper. The roadster is living up to reasonable expectations, so I think its likely this will too.
1) move to a warmer climate, like the rest of us
2) wait for global warming (sorry, climate change) to make it more comfortable for the batteries where you are. (and we'll join you there when it happens)
in the mean time, sorry - your screwed. :-P
What the white house is admitting is that they feel we work for them, not the other way round. Asked directly they deny this, but their actions speak loudly.
The dolphins will just say 'so long' and thank us for the fish when it gets down to it.
Just curious, how many of us use a cell phone while driving (regularly, not for emergencies), so they are in fact against the idea itself, not the possible shortcomings of the implementation?
I want an Android device with Android Market, but I don't want a phone. Is that so much to ask?
Looks like you will get this with the Samsung Tab.
Be careful what you ask for - it may not have a phone, but require a contract anyway... http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/16/samsung-galaxy-tab-wifi-only-version-coming/
Sorry couldn't be bothered to RTFS
Er, burglary is always premeditated.
Is that true? IANAL, but I would be curious to know what the legal perspective is on premeditation vs. seeing an unlocked car with some CDs in it.
I have a question on implementation though - the world GDP was 60 trillion in 2008 (Adjusted to US dollars). Population at that time was 6.7 billion.
That means the average income per person is about $9,000. Or a family of four is $28,000. The US federal definition of poverty for a family of four is $22,000 (more if you're from California like I am).
Thus, if we want to defeat poverty, we can't just 'share the wealth', even from obscenely rich people. It would just mean we are all poor.
Do you think the republicans are right that the only way to achieve this is to grow our way out of it? Lower taxes so businesses hire more workers?
Should we all lower our standard of living so our costs are in line with the rest of the world? (any volunteers?)
IT is a support function of the company. IT personnel should do everything in their power to help the company make more profit. If that means making an extra effort so a salesguy can use his cool new phone so he works harder, do it. If it means saying no to the sales guy who wants to give a prospect a $50,000 piece of equipment to make a $10,000 sale, tell them no.
Its a pretty simple formula if you keep it always at the forefront of your thinking.
Let's put the research into providing the rider all that information on fastest route.
As batteries get lighter, electric motorcycles get more practical - http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/498/3116/Motorcycle-Article/TTXGP--Electric-Motorcycles-Race-Isle-of-Man.aspx as an example.
Until then, tow a battery trailer, with room for groceries on top.
For them, and those of us who get to drive next to them with the windows rolled down.
Oh well, as an AC you probably don't care much about karma.
A radio station in California (KOME) used to claim it is physically impossible to over cum.
And remember - don't touch that dial, there's kome on it.
Actually, my wife was a victim of this type of scam recently. They systematically cleaned our entire checking account out.
I, like you, felt that the bank's money was stolen, not ours. I put my money in the bank, and had not withdrawn it, so this was essentially a remote bank robbery in my opinion.
Where it gets interesting is this is EXACTLY how the bank treated it. They immediately refunded all money to the account, and then went after the fraud on the other end of the transaction.
Not sure if all banks treat you this way, but B of A did us right. (And they are usually listed as the most evil of providers, so I tend to think they are not unique).
I think identity theft was a real problem 10 years ago before it was understood, but now the banks realize it is not fraud by the victim in most cases and deal with it fairly.