1. Tradition. 2. Football (soccer for you) was never about "down-to-the-second" time precision like it is for basketball or hockey, where exact timing adds to the drama and one lucky throw/shot could traverse the field in seconds and score a goal. In football (soccer for you) that is damn near impossible and certainly never a viable strategy. 3. The referee does have power indeed. Maybe more than needed but still plenty. He gets to decide extra time based on a variety of factors that can't really be automated.
This is retarded. The game result must be based on correct decisions rather than finish on time. What does "on time" mean, anyway? Most sports out there don't even have limited play time; for example, all games where the winner is the one who reaches X points (field- and table-tennis, chess, volleyball, etc). Time-based games often have a bracket phase where a winner must be chosen out of the two opponents, which means that if the score is equal, the match goes into overtime, and there's your duration expectation flying right out the window.
I guess the topic boils down to "American sports columnist rants about less popular game having new rules he doesn't like". Maybe the added game time made him be late for lunch and his wife chided him.
VR porn is horrible. Imagine putting the headset on, starting some PoV porn and looking down... why the fuck do I, white nerd, have a huge black dick???
I have yet to play a game the only allowed a facebook account. If I came across then I wouldn't play that game. But this might be due to the fact that I don't play any free games unless they're open source.
So... you don't play those games because you don't want to play those games. Great logic, but that doesn't mean they go away. Also, I was talking about mobile games and apps, rather than PC ones.
I seem to have no problem finding games to spend money on. You're looking in the wrong places. I suggest GOG.com or Humble Bundle. The key is to look for the games that cost money up front.
I have spent thousands of EUR on PC games, I wasn't talking about those. I was talking about mobile games, where the situation is grim.
I've done it. You have to side load any apps but it's nearly as horrible as you might think. It does take a bit of tinkering and some technical know how that is above the average user. Still, you could also just create an empty google account and only tie you phone to it. Yes, you technically have a Google account but there's nothing of real value in it.
Which brings us back to the original discussion. Every Google account is empty... at the beginning. Then you add contacts. Then you use Whatsapp. Then you move around and your location is recorded. Maybe you watch a few videos. Maybe you start using e-mail of some sort. Soon enough, that empty Google account isn't empty anymore.
What I'm saying is most apps out there use Facebook's or Google's infrastructure for account management. They don't have their own account management infrastructure, so you're screwed anyway. No Facebook account? Sorry, you can't save your progress in this game. Sorry, you can't aggregate your data in this app. Sorry, you can't use that app at all. What remains after you've eliminated is generally useless.
Also, try using a smartphone without being logged in to either Apple's or Google's account. Yeah, I know, "don't use a smartphone". Be a hermit in a connected world.
The problem, though, is there is almost no other type of stuff out there. The stuff that is free without sucking your data off and has no ads usually sucks donkey balls.
It could also be that the industry-level issue like standard practices for salary increases with years of experience just don't match the additional value a more experience employee provides to the company, particularly when you go beyond 50 and learning new things has become much harder than for a 20 or 30-something. Actually, considering how many new things you have to constantly be learning in the tech sector it's probably no wonder you start seeing an increasing rift between salary and employee value, along management behavior reflecting this, when people start getting to the kind of age where learning new things is genuinely harder than when you were still in your 30s.
My gut feeling is still that the guy who's suing IBM for age discrimination may have performed the best in his sales team, but when compared to his peers and normalized for salary his performance wasn't all that great anymore.
Again, I understand all that, I just don't agree with the practice of "you're fired even though you did nothing wrong and are a great performer". This can be rephrased as "someone else overvalued your work and you take the blame". It sucks and shouldn't happen. Is his performance/salary ratio a bit worse that his younger peers? That might just as well be, and there's plenty valid reasons why, the question is: do we fire such a person, even though they've been with the company for so long? Do we REALLY need that money we're paying him extra compared to a younger peer?
This is the problem with most faceless behemoths of companies out there, they never balance the effect of such decision upon a human being versus the effect of keeping him towards the company itself. It's horrible behavior.
While I agree that "management thinks they're not worth the extra salary compared to their younger peers", I still challenge the sanity of said management's conclusion. After all, that large salary is supposed to reflect the employee's performance. So what went wrong? Was the salary increase not justified?
Because otherwise it's the classic problem of "I am performing the best I can and still get fired for reasons other than my own performance or company critical troubles". And that's really horrible.
Yes, for small ones all you need is to have the USB port protrude from the back of the charger.
Secondly, this would mean adding cables rated for 240V AC to devices that are supposed to supply 5V or maybe 12V DC. That's a waste of copper.
Cables are rated for power consumption (amperage). A fast charger (1.67A @9V) would consume a maximum of 20W, maybe, considering efficiency loss. That would be equal to 0.09A at 240V AC.
Seriously, why couldn't they design the plug to take up vertical space, and not horizontal space?
They have. And it's equally bad. There's even an animation in TFA depincting that very situation. What needs to happen is to have a regular, small footprint plug continued with a wire which goes into the AC/DC converter itself. problem solved. Everyone's happy.
He will have to prove that IBM got rid of him specifically because of his age, which will be difficult for him unless someone at IBM was dumb enough to put it in writing somewhere or said it in front of a few, still happily employed, people who will be willing to testify to that.
Actually it's relatively easy to get to the bottom of this, in theory. In practice, it would take some time. But what needs to happen is compare his data (position, salary, bonuses, revenue brought by him directly and indirectly, for how long was he employed by the company) with his peers' data. Assign a weight to each data point (e.g. salary weight is 30% of total) and you get a general score. Apply same methodology to his peers and check whether his younger peers were retained with the company even though they had a lower aggregate score. Play with the data point weights to obtain best/worst possible situation and compare again with his peers' results.
I know of a case (resolved internally) when an older employee was told to resign and he fought back. HR said he was "redundant" because he had too few projects, and eventually it turned out his millennial manager kept assigning bigger projects to his millennial team members and left the older employee with fewer, mostly irrelevant projects. It also turned out the older employee actively requested projects and helped his younger peers where they got stuck but it wasn't recorded in the projects themselves. The story ends with the millennial manager being let go. The older employee was my uncle (he's 61 now and no longer working for that company, he left shortly after).
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1. Tradition.
2. Football (soccer for you) was never about "down-to-the-second" time precision like it is for basketball or hockey, where exact timing adds to the drama and one lucky throw/shot could traverse the field in seconds and score a goal. In football (soccer for you) that is damn near impossible and certainly never a viable strategy.
3. The referee does have power indeed. Maybe more than needed but still plenty. He gets to decide extra time based on a variety of factors that can't really be automated.
Don't ever watch field tennis, then. Ever.
(FYI there was a Wimbledon match the other day: 4h 48m, take THAT you dirty american sports columnist!)
This is retarded.
The game result must be based on correct decisions rather than finish on time. What does "on time" mean, anyway? Most sports out there don't even have limited play time; for example, all games where the winner is the one who reaches X points (field- and table-tennis, chess, volleyball, etc). Time-based games often have a bracket phase where a winner must be chosen out of the two opponents, which means that if the score is equal, the match goes into overtime, and there's your duration expectation flying right out the window.
I guess the topic boils down to "American sports columnist rants about less popular game having new rules he doesn't like". Maybe the added game time made him be late for lunch and his wife chided him.
I already have big breasts, thank you.
You forgot 4K...
All work is coerced. Coerced sex is rape.
Fractured logic detected. Your brain must hurt.
VR porn is horrible. Imagine putting the headset on, starting some PoV porn and looking down... why the fuck do I, white nerd, have a huge black dick???
And do nothing useful on it.
I have yet to play a game the only allowed a facebook account. If I came across then I wouldn't play that game. But this might be due to the fact that I don't play any free games unless they're open source.
So... you don't play those games because you don't want to play those games. Great logic, but that doesn't mean they go away. Also, I was talking about mobile games and apps, rather than PC ones.
I seem to have no problem finding games to spend money on. You're looking in the wrong places. I suggest GOG.com or Humble Bundle. The key is to look for the games that cost money up front.
I have spent thousands of EUR on PC games, I wasn't talking about those. I was talking about mobile games, where the situation is grim.
I've done it. You have to side load any apps but it's nearly as horrible as you might think. It does take a bit of tinkering and some technical know how that is above the average user. Still, you could also just create an empty google account and only tie you phone to it. Yes, you technically have a Google account but there's nothing of real value in it.
Which brings us back to the original discussion. Every Google account is empty... at the beginning. Then you add contacts. Then you use Whatsapp. Then you move around and your location is recorded. Maybe you watch a few videos. Maybe you start using e-mail of some sort. Soon enough, that empty Google account isn't empty anymore.
What I'm saying is most apps out there use Facebook's or Google's infrastructure for account management. They don't have their own account management infrastructure, so you're screwed anyway.
No Facebook account? Sorry, you can't save your progress in this game. Sorry, you can't aggregate your data in this app. Sorry, you can't use that app at all.
What remains after you've eliminated is generally useless.
Also, try using a smartphone without being logged in to either Apple's or Google's account.
Yeah, I know, "don't use a smartphone". Be a hermit in a connected world.
Maybe, simply because I've moved on from tinkering with every little thing in my life.
Priorities...
Like "go off the grid and live like a hermit"?
The problem, though, is there is almost no other type of stuff out there.
The stuff that is free without sucking your data off and has no ads usually sucks donkey balls.
Anecdotal coincidence: I literally just heard of Strava today from an unrelated source and installed it a couple hours ago.
The averaged each Joe and Jane and offered music that's similarly constructed.
So you are proposing .... mandatory lawn mowing in schools?
Seems to be working very well for schools in Japan. Most of them have no janitors, as students are the ones performing that work.
Do you really think every singer songwriter out there who becomes a mega star is a thief?
Pretty much, for the last 15 years at least.
It could also be that the industry-level issue like standard practices for salary increases with years of experience just don't match the additional value a more experience employee provides to the company, particularly when you go beyond 50 and learning new things has become much harder than for a 20 or 30-something. Actually, considering how many new things you have to constantly be learning in the tech sector it's probably no wonder you start seeing an increasing rift between salary and employee value, along management behavior reflecting this, when people start getting to the kind of age where learning new things is genuinely harder than when you were still in your 30s.
My gut feeling is still that the guy who's suing IBM for age discrimination may have performed the best in his sales team, but when compared to his peers and normalized for salary his performance wasn't all that great anymore.
Again, I understand all that, I just don't agree with the practice of "you're fired even though you did nothing wrong and are a great performer". This can be rephrased as "someone else overvalued your work and you take the blame". It sucks and shouldn't happen. Is his performance/salary ratio a bit worse that his younger peers? That might just as well be, and there's plenty valid reasons why, the question is: do we fire such a person, even though they've been with the company for so long? Do we REALLY need that money we're paying him extra compared to a younger peer?
This is the problem with most faceless behemoths of companies out there, they never balance the effect of such decision upon a human being versus the effect of keeping him towards the company itself. It's horrible behavior.
While I agree that "management thinks they're not worth the extra salary compared to their younger peers", I still challenge the sanity of said management's conclusion. After all, that large salary is supposed to reflect the employee's performance. So what went wrong? Was the salary increase not justified?
Because otherwise it's the classic problem of "I am performing the best I can and still get fired for reasons other than my own performance or company critical troubles". And that's really horrible.
Yes, for small ones all you need is to have the USB port protrude from the back of the charger.
Secondly, this would mean adding cables rated for 240V AC to devices that are supposed to supply 5V or maybe 12V DC. That's a waste of copper.
Cables are rated for power consumption (amperage). A fast charger (1.67A @9V) would consume a maximum of 20W, maybe, considering efficiency loss. That would be equal to 0.09A at 240V AC.
Xiaomi is a good brand with nice phones however I personally like Oppo more.
Seriously, why couldn't they design the plug to take up vertical space, and not horizontal space?
They have. And it's equally bad. There's even an animation in TFA depincting that very situation.
What needs to happen is to have a regular, small footprint plug continued with a wire which goes into the AC/DC converter itself. problem solved. Everyone's happy.
He will have to prove that IBM got rid of him specifically because of his age, which will be difficult for him unless someone at IBM was dumb enough to put it in writing somewhere or said it in front of a few, still happily employed, people who will be willing to testify to that.
Actually it's relatively easy to get to the bottom of this, in theory. In practice, it would take some time.
But what needs to happen is compare his data (position, salary, bonuses, revenue brought by him directly and indirectly, for how long was he employed by the company) with his peers' data. Assign a weight to each data point (e.g. salary weight is 30% of total) and you get a general score. Apply same methodology to his peers and check whether his younger peers were retained with the company even though they had a lower aggregate score. Play with the data point weights to obtain best/worst possible situation and compare again with his peers' results.
I know of a case (resolved internally) when an older employee was told to resign and he fought back. HR said he was "redundant" because he had too few projects, and eventually it turned out his millennial manager kept assigning bigger projects to his millennial team members and left the older employee with fewer, mostly irrelevant projects. It also turned out the older employee actively requested projects and helped his younger peers where they got stuck but it wasn't recorded in the projects themselves. The story ends with the millennial manager being let go. The older employee was my uncle (he's 61 now and no longer working for that company, he left shortly after).
Someone at IBM is very, very stupid for having fired that dude, if data he used as evidence can be confirmed.
They're all cowards.