Me: I don't want your clouds, why should I waste my bandwidth and endure slow access times when I can store my files and my backups locally?
If you're storing your files and backups locally, then you don't really have "backups", you just another copy of data that will be lost in the fire/flood/tornado, whatever.
Chrome crashes on me less than once a month (I typically have to reboot for security patches before Chrome chrashes). Firefox must be crashing a *lot* if a 10% reduction is significant.
The suit cost $23 to make in Brooklyn. Making it in China and shipping it to Paraggio's office cost a mere $10
Manufacturing in America "makes me look like a bad business person," Paraggio told CNNMoney. She went with the Brooklyn option anyway. Surely, she thought, customers would prefer to see the "Made in the USA" label
"No one cares about Made in the USA," says Paraggio, who recently ordered some suits from China for the first time after Daymond John of Shark Tank gave her frank advice to get real about the bottom line. So she placed the order. And cried
In survey after survey, Americans say they prefer to buy "Made in the USA" products. But when it comes to actually spending, their choices tell a different story. "Consumers are all for Made in America until they have to pay for it," says Greg Portell, partner at consulting firm A.T. Kearney who specializing in advising retailers.
When it was a lot easier to get jobs, without worrying about them being eliminated and sent overseas. When products were of quality make and made in America
Those days are not coming back. Overhauling the H1-B program won't do anything to reduce the jobs being sent overseas because overseas workers are not H1-B's, they are natives in their own country and will work for much less money than American workers. Bringing H1-B's on-site for on-the-job training eases the process, but they are not neccessary. If your job is so easy to do that someone from another country can come and learn it in a few weeks, then it's a prime candidate for outsourcing entirely to another country.
Likewise, few people will pay for "American Quality" products -- even Trump uses Chinese factories to make his "Make America Great" trinkets. The only manufacturing that will stay in America will be heavily automated.
By dumping environmental regulations and reducing worker protections, Trump is trying to turn the USA into another China-like manufacturing powerhouse, but it's too little too late for that, and does anyone really want the air quality of China where you can actually see the air between your face and your hand (not to mention widespread pollution in the water and even the soil)? By the time we could catch up to China's manufacturing base, they will have already far surpassed us in automation so we still won't be able to compete.
I'd like to think that the USA still has the edge on educated workers, but with republican cuts in education (from pre-k and primary all the way through secondary education), fewer and fewer of the best and brightest minds will be coming from the USA - in the future our smartest citizens will be another country's H1-B problem.
> no potato chips due to a bad crop in Hokkaido, a key potato-producing region. The northern island was hit by a record number of typhoons last year...blah-blah...
Don't buy such cover stories. Last time there was a big potato it shortage happened in nazi Germany. Since they had no domestic mineral oil supplies and the romanian oil fields were lost to soviet invasion by 1944, the lack of kerosene (jet fuel) production meant the mass application of V2 (A4) ballistic missiles suffered a big setback. Germany's solution was to convert the V2 to alcohol-LOX fueling: they simply confiscated over 75% of the entire potato yield in the Reich and in the occupied territories, had it fermented and used the spirit to fuel the V2, of which over 3500 were launched against Belgium, Netherlands and Britain.
Similarly, it is quite likely that the oil-less Japan (they only have coal resources domestically) is now trying to amass potato crop for industrial alcohol production, likely in connection with some aero-space project, quite likely a clandestine military one, else they could simply buy more mineral oil from Russia or the Arabs in public tanker ship exchanges. I think USA, China and Korea better watch out!
That is such an unrealistic conspiracy theory.
The real truth is that the Emperor is taking over the country and he's amassing a stockpile of artillery for his potato guns. Everyone knows the destructive power of a potato gun, when I was a kid, one of my friends knocked a can off a fence 100 yards away with one. Yeah, that's right, we measured in yards in those days, the socialist "meter" wasn't even invented. We had plans on building a bigger gun that could hit the moon, but ran out of time before summer ended... plus we found his brother's stash of marijuana.
and the Asian market across the street from me has no potato chips. Also, the Safeway a couple of blocks from me doesn't either. Seems like the problem is spreading.
I live in the SF Bay area and just bought an assortment of Calbee chips for the regular price. I guess the store owner didn't hear about the shortage. Yum Calbee French Salad chips!
Go eat something healthy for a change. There's no need for this kind of idiocy. We're more civilized in Europe and would never sink to this level.
Oh yeah? What about FRENCH fries!? They are just as calorie laden as potato chips and not nearly as tasty. Why did the French invent them if they are so civilized?
I'd rather be a fatass American than a poor worthless European piece of trash.
At least the poor European has real social services to fall on -- the fatass american won't be able to afford healthcare insurance for his heart bypass.
Netflix, which already eats up the fattest chunk of downstream bandwidth, is taking an even bigger bite: The No. 1 subscription-video service accounted for 36.5% of all downstream Internet bandwidth during peak periods in North America for March, according to a new report....
By comparison, for the same time periods, YouTube accounted for 15.6% of downstream Internet traffic, web browsing was 6%, Facebook was 2.7%, Amazon Instant Video was 2.0% and Hulu was 1.9%.
Piece of paper held onto the fridge with a magnet.
Works for me.
I used to use that piece of paper once.... problem is that it never left the 'fridge, so when I went to the store, I'd have to try to guess what I wrote on the list.
Now I use Google Keep and share the shopping list with my spouse, so either one of us can edit the list, and when either of us goes to the store we have access to it.
If you spend 100 hours to earn a $5000 prize, is that really any different than working for a real company at $50/hr?
For a real company, I'm guaranteed the $50/hr even if I'm sick that day.
It's different because you can work in your pajamas if you want to, and after you spend your 5 days of hacking you can take 2 weeks off before the next one and still earn the same money as the guy that works 40 hours/week.
And yeah, steady employment ensures a steady paycheck, but contracting (or whatever this hackathon "employment" is called) leads to a more flexible lifestyle - if you want to spend a month in costa rica, you can just go between gigs (or work remotely)
And your post reinforces the fact that you are not interested in intellectual discourse, but instead are looking for anything to contradict, no matter how stupid it makes you look. You might want to take a look at that.
You're looking for intellectual discourse on Slashdot, yet I'm the stupid one!?
Since companies will not give feedback on why they didn't hire you, there is no way to know why things went the way they went.
I got declined for a job. I had a friend who worked there and told me why I was declined. I was completely off base about what I thought was going on. He said it was just one guy who was completely against me since I had given a really bad answer to a technical question he asked. The guy didn't show it at all and he it didn't even register that he had such a huge grudge against me.
That's actually not relevant.
When computing the interview score for the hiring committee, the top and bottom scores are thrown out.
He could have given you a 0, and if everyone else gave you scores that average out to 3+: you're in, as far as the hiring committee goes, unless there's a huge red flag, such as lying about criminal record, education, etc..
Even when I worked for a company that did discard the top and bottom scores, if one person had a bad feeling about the candidate, he could persuade the rest of the team that the person is the wrong fit for the job. Unless someone steps up and defends the candidate, then he/she will likely not be hired.
People pay $80 a month?! For TV?!? Do you even watch it?
I used to pay $59 for ~60 channels -- when they raised it to $69, I decided enough was enough and switched to over-the-air + Netflix.
It turns out that the over-the-air digital channels look far better than the equivalent cable channels, the cable company used so much compression that digital compression artifacts were clearly visible.
It's actually $45/month -- $15 is the weekly pricing.
Is there a better deal for short-term hard-wired internet with no installation fee or term commitment?
$15/week sounds great for when I visit my parents so I don't have to use their crappy (but cheap) DSL service... my cell phone is faster than that, but latency sucks for interactive work.
You're just being argumentative. I have had a situation where I found a corrupted file (an extremely large video file), and subsequently backed up all but 5 files on my PC successfully. Blue screens are more obvious signs of a potential filesystem problem,
Making a larger point, most regulars on this site have very little love for Microsoft. Yet on this story, there are dozens of comments about how the updates aren't that bad, that they can't possibly harm data, etc etc. It's disgusting to see so many shills trying to muddy the waters of this discussion, including you. Perhaps you should spend your time programming a non-shitty OS instead of astroturfing here.
Yes, I'm arguing with your contention that you can safely wait for signs that your hard drive is failing before you make a back up -- I've had this same argument many times with friends and family that wanted me to magically retrieve some important file from their dead hard drive... yet none of them wanted to pay the $500+ that a data recovery service wanted to attempt a (non-guaranteed) recovery. The time to make a backup is now, not when you think your hard drive is failing.
It's disgusting to see so many shills trying to muddy the waters of this discussion, including you.
No need to make this into a partisan "You're either with us or against us" issue -- I never argued that the forced (or deceptive) upgrade was a good thing, I was just pointing out that if your hard drive fails during an operating system upgrade, it was due to fail soon anyway.
Perhaps you should spend your time programming a non-shitty OS instead of astroturfing here.
This is one of the worst things to come out of the current political environment - it's becoming nearly impossible to have any sort of polite discourse with anyone that disagrees with you because the conversation soon degrades into namecalling, proclamations of "This is fake news!", or partisan "If you don't agree with me, then you're my enemy".
It's a good thing Terrorists don't know about connecting flights, otherwise instead of taking a flight direct from a banned city to the USA, they'd take their iPad on a flight that connects through a non-banned city, perhaps even transferring from a Middle Eastern airline to a Western airline so they punish even more westerners.
Which is the same problem the USA has with domestic flights -- an attacker doesn't have to breach security at a large airport, they just need to bribe some random TSA worker in any of thousands of small airports to smuggle a box full of "drugs" that's really the explosive or weapon he wants. The person doing the smuggling doesn't even need to be in on it, they can think they are a well paid drug mule while they deliver a box of explosives to someone at JFK.
When I say "throw errors", I include such things as random bluescreens and corrupted files, which would prompt me to immediately back up whatever I can. You're not going to notice those early warning signs when a full-blown OS install is in progress, especially if the install keeps crashing and rebooting until the HD is destroyed.
If you wait until you see corrupted files to make your backup, how do you have any confidence in your backup? How do you know you haven't just saved corrupted copies of all of your files?
What kind of bank do you use that would allow unauthorized withdrawals just for knowing an account number? Have you thought of switching to a real bank?
Every bank. At least every USA bank -- thanks to "eChecks", the fraudster doesn't even need to use a laser printer and create a paper check like they used to. All they need is the account information that's printed on every check.
And note that depending on your bank and local laws, you may have only 30 days to report a fraudulent check drawn against your account or you may have no recourse at all.
Strange logic. If you aren't in the middle of an OS install, your sick HD will throw errors and give you a chance to back up your data.
That hasn't been my experience -- typically when the hard drive starts throwing errors, you're lucky to get anything off it at all, let alone a good backup of your data. Though that's why we have backups... and for those that don't think they need backups, that's why we have data recovery firms.
Yes pumpkinhead.. because Microsoft never voided good programming practice.. and was never deceitful about presenting an upgrade to Windows 10 to their users. Get back under your rock you useless troll. Obviously you are uniformed as to the lengths that MS went to increase the percentage of Windows 10 users.
Nothing in that article refutes my assertion that the people that are tricked into upgrading are the same kind of people that can't replace a hard drive on their own.
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Me: I don't want your clouds, why should I waste my bandwidth and endure slow access times when I can store my files and my backups locally?
If you're storing your files and backups locally, then you don't really have "backups", you just another copy of data that will be lost in the fire/flood/tornado, whatever.
Chrome crashes on me less than once a month (I typically have to reboot for security patches before Chrome chrashes). Firefox must be crashing a *lot* if a 10% reduction is significant.
I haven't heard anything about Trump increasing SOx, NOx, lead or mercury.
EPA seeks to derail cleanup of coal power plant pollution
http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/1...
The suit cost $23 to make in Brooklyn. Making it in China and shipping it to Paraggio's office cost a mere $10
Manufacturing in America "makes me look like a bad business person," Paraggio told CNNMoney. She went with the Brooklyn option anyway. Surely, she thought, customers would prefer to see the "Made in the USA" label
"No one cares about Made in the USA," says Paraggio, who recently ordered some suits from China for the first time after Daymond John of Shark Tank gave her frank advice to get real about the bottom line. So she placed the order. And cried
In survey after survey, Americans say they prefer to buy "Made in the USA" products. But when it comes to actually spending, their choices tell a different story.
"Consumers are all for Made in America until they have to pay for it," says Greg Portell, partner at consulting firm A.T. Kearney who specializing in advising retailers.
When it was a lot easier to get jobs, without worrying about them being eliminated and sent overseas. When products were of quality make and made in America
Those days are not coming back. Overhauling the H1-B program won't do anything to reduce the jobs being sent overseas because overseas workers are not H1-B's, they are natives in their own country and will work for much less money than American workers. Bringing H1-B's on-site for on-the-job training eases the process, but they are not neccessary. If your job is so easy to do that someone from another country can come and learn it in a few weeks, then it's a prime candidate for outsourcing entirely to another country.
Likewise, few people will pay for "American Quality" products -- even Trump uses Chinese factories to make his "Make America Great" trinkets. The only manufacturing that will stay in America will be heavily automated.
By dumping environmental regulations and reducing worker protections, Trump is trying to turn the USA into another China-like manufacturing powerhouse, but it's too little too late for that, and does anyone really want the air quality of China where you can actually see the air between your face and your hand (not to mention widespread pollution in the water and even the soil)? By the time we could catch up to China's manufacturing base, they will have already far surpassed us in automation so we still won't be able to compete.
I'd like to think that the USA still has the edge on educated workers, but with republican cuts in education (from pre-k and primary all the way through secondary education), fewer and fewer of the best and brightest minds will be coming from the USA - in the future our smartest citizens will be another country's H1-B problem.
> no potato chips due to a bad crop in Hokkaido, a key potato-producing region. The northern island was hit by a record number of typhoons last year...blah-blah...
Don't buy such cover stories. Last time there was a big potato it shortage happened in nazi Germany. Since they had no domestic mineral oil supplies and the romanian oil fields were lost to soviet invasion by 1944, the lack of kerosene (jet fuel) production meant the mass application of V2 (A4) ballistic missiles suffered a big setback. Germany's solution was to convert the V2 to alcohol-LOX fueling: they simply confiscated over 75% of the entire potato yield in the Reich and in the occupied territories, had it fermented and used the spirit to fuel the V2, of which over 3500 were launched against Belgium, Netherlands and Britain.
Similarly, it is quite likely that the oil-less Japan (they only have coal resources domestically) is now trying to amass potato crop for industrial alcohol production, likely in connection with some aero-space project, quite likely a clandestine military one, else they could simply buy more mineral oil from Russia or the Arabs in public tanker ship exchanges. I think USA, China and Korea better watch out!
That is such an unrealistic conspiracy theory.
The real truth is that the Emperor is taking over the country and he's amassing a stockpile of artillery for his potato guns. Everyone knows the destructive power of a potato gun, when I was a kid, one of my friends knocked a can off a fence 100 yards away with one. Yeah, that's right, we measured in yards in those days, the socialist "meter" wasn't even invented. We had plans on building a bigger gun that could hit the moon, but ran out of time before summer ended... plus we found his brother's stash of marijuana.
and the Asian market across the street from me has no potato chips. Also, the Safeway a couple of blocks from me doesn't either. Seems like the problem is spreading.
I live in the SF Bay area and just bought an assortment of Calbee chips for the regular price. I guess the store owner didn't hear about the shortage. Yum Calbee French Salad chips!
Go eat something healthy for a change. There's no need for this kind of idiocy. We're more civilized in Europe and would never sink to this level.
Oh yeah? What about FRENCH fries!? They are just as calorie laden as potato chips and not nearly as tasty. Why did the French invent them if they are so civilized?
I'm so glad they we call them FREEDOM FRIES now.
I'd rather be a fatass American than a poor worthless European piece of trash.
At least the poor European has real social services to fall on -- the fatass american won't be able to afford healthcare insurance for his heart bypass.
If a show is available on-demand, viewers won't be able to skip ads, even if they recorded the episode on DVR
Stuff like this is what drives people to use bittorrent - why pay for content if you have to sit through the ads anyway?
Obligatory TheOatmeal:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/g...
Think about it then ask yourself, who has the biggest streaming platform on the internet?
Netflix?
https://variety.com/2015/digit...
Netflix, which already eats up the fattest chunk of downstream bandwidth, is taking an even bigger bite: The No. 1 subscription-video service accounted for 36.5% of all downstream Internet bandwidth during peak periods in North America for March, according to a new report. ...
By comparison, for the same time periods, YouTube accounted for 15.6% of downstream Internet traffic, web browsing was 6%, Facebook was 2.7%, Amazon Instant Video was 2.0% and Hulu was 1.9%.
Piece of paper held onto the fridge with a magnet.
Works for me.
I used to use that piece of paper once.... problem is that it never left the 'fridge, so when I went to the store, I'd have to try to guess what I wrote on the list.
Now I use Google Keep and share the shopping list with my spouse, so either one of us can edit the list, and when either of us goes to the store we have access to it.
If you spend 100 hours to earn a $5000 prize, is that really any different than working for a real company at $50/hr?
For a real company, I'm guaranteed the $50/hr even if I'm sick that day.
It's different because you can work in your pajamas if you want to, and after you spend your 5 days of hacking you can take 2 weeks off before the next one and still earn the same money as the guy that works 40 hours/week.
And yeah, steady employment ensures a steady paycheck, but contracting (or whatever this hackathon "employment" is called) leads to a more flexible lifestyle - if you want to spend a month in costa rica, you can just go between gigs (or work remotely)
And your post reinforces the fact that you are not interested in intellectual discourse, but instead are looking for anything to contradict, no matter how stupid it makes you look. You might want to take a look at that.
You're looking for intellectual discourse on Slashdot, yet I'm the stupid one!?
Google bought Youtube (Nov 2006) less than two years after Youtube was founded (Feb 2005).
That doesn't change the fact that prior to Feb 2005, not a single ad ran on Youtube.
Since companies will not give feedback on why they didn't hire you, there is no way to know why things went the way they went.
I got declined for a job. I had a friend who worked there and told me why I was declined. I was completely off base about what I thought was going on. He said it was just one guy who was completely against me since I had given a really bad answer to a technical question he asked. The guy didn't show it at all and he it didn't even register that he had such a huge grudge against me.
That's actually not relevant.
When computing the interview score for the hiring committee, the top and bottom scores are thrown out.
He could have given you a 0, and if everyone else gave you scores that average out to 3+: you're in, as far as the hiring committee goes, unless there's a huge red flag, such as lying about criminal record, education, etc..
Even when I worked for a company that did discard the top and bottom scores, if one person had a bad feeling about the candidate, he could persuade the rest of the team that the person is the wrong fit for the job. Unless someone steps up and defends the candidate, then he/she will likely not be hired.
People pay $80 a month?! For TV?!? Do you even watch it?
I used to pay $59 for ~60 channels -- when they raised it to $69, I decided enough was enough and switched to over-the-air + Netflix.
It turns out that the over-the-air digital channels look far better than the equivalent cable channels, the cable company used so much compression that digital compression artifacts were clearly visible.
$60 a month for 10Mb/s internet?
What the fuck is this shit comcast?
It's actually $45/month -- $15 is the weekly pricing.
Is there a better deal for short-term hard-wired internet with no installation fee or term commitment?
$15/week sounds great for when I visit my parents so I don't have to use their crappy (but cheap) DSL service... my cell phone is faster than that, but latency sucks for interactive work.
It's wrong for (white) men to subjugate women, demean them, or harass them in the office.
Except if you are into BDSM involving fantasies of sexual slavery of women.
Yes, that's what fantasies are. Feel free to fantasize about anything you like, just don't bring it into the office.
You're just being argumentative. I have had a situation where I found a corrupted file (an extremely large video file), and subsequently backed up all but 5 files on my PC successfully. Blue screens are more obvious signs of a potential filesystem problem,
Making a larger point, most regulars on this site have very little love for Microsoft. Yet on this story, there are dozens of comments about how the updates aren't that bad, that they can't possibly harm data, etc etc. It's disgusting to see so many shills trying to muddy the waters of this discussion, including you. Perhaps you should spend your time programming a non-shitty OS instead of astroturfing here.
Yes, I'm arguing with your contention that you can safely wait for signs that your hard drive is failing before you make a back up -- I've had this same argument many times with friends and family that wanted me to magically retrieve some important file from their dead hard drive... yet none of them wanted to pay the $500+ that a data recovery service wanted to attempt a (non-guaranteed) recovery. The time to make a backup is now, not when you think your hard drive is failing.
It's disgusting to see so many shills trying to muddy the waters of this discussion, including you.
No need to make this into a partisan "You're either with us or against us" issue -- I never argued that the forced (or deceptive) upgrade was a good thing, I was just pointing out that if your hard drive fails during an operating system upgrade, it was due to fail soon anyway.
Perhaps you should spend your time programming a non-shitty OS instead of astroturfing here.
This is one of the worst things to come out of the current political environment - it's becoming nearly impossible to have any sort of polite discourse with anyone that disagrees with you because the conversation soon degrades into namecalling, proclamations of "This is fake news!", or partisan "If you don't agree with me, then you're my enemy".
It's a good thing Terrorists don't know about connecting flights, otherwise instead of taking a flight direct from a banned city to the USA, they'd take their iPad on a flight that connects through a non-banned city, perhaps even transferring from a Middle Eastern airline to a Western airline so they punish even more westerners.
Which is the same problem the USA has with domestic flights -- an attacker doesn't have to breach security at a large airport, they just need to bribe some random TSA worker in any of thousands of small airports to smuggle a box full of "drugs" that's really the explosive or weapon he wants. The person doing the smuggling doesn't even need to be in on it, they can think they are a well paid drug mule while they deliver a box of explosives to someone at JFK.
When I say "throw errors", I include such things as random bluescreens and corrupted files, which would prompt me to immediately back up whatever I can. You're not going to notice those early warning signs when a full-blown OS install is in progress, especially if the install keeps crashing and rebooting until the HD is destroyed.
If you wait until you see corrupted files to make your backup, how do you have any confidence in your backup? How do you know you haven't just saved corrupted copies of all of your files?
What kind of bank do you use that would allow unauthorized withdrawals just for knowing an account number? Have you thought of switching to a real bank?
Every bank. At least every USA bank -- thanks to "eChecks", the fraudster doesn't even need to use a laser printer and create a paper check like they used to. All they need is the account information that's printed on every check.
And note that depending on your bank and local laws, you may have only 30 days to report a fraudulent check drawn against your account or you may have no recourse at all.
Strange logic. If you aren't in the middle of an OS install, your sick HD will throw errors and give you a chance to back up your data.
That hasn't been my experience -- typically when the hard drive starts throwing errors, you're lucky to get anything off it at all, let alone a good backup of your data. Though that's why we have backups... and for those that don't think they need backups, that's why we have data recovery firms.
Yes pumpkinhead.. because Microsoft never voided good programming practice.. and was never deceitful about presenting an upgrade to Windows 10 to their users. Get back under your rock you useless troll. Obviously you are uniformed as to the lengths that MS went to increase the percentage of Windows 10 users.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3073457/windows/how-microsofts-nasty-new-windows-10-pop-up-tricks-you-into-upgrading.html
Peace out you uniformed pisshead.
Nothing in that article refutes my assertion that the people that are tricked into upgrading are the same kind of people that can't replace a hard drive on their own.