In my Small-City (~20,000), Pokemon GO injected a lot of life into those who avoid the Church/Bar social-focus of the past... since-forever.
Last year, you could see 8-year-olds out with their parents at 2AM and strike up a (really freaking cool) conversation with a 50+ OrbitalATK Engineer a few minutes later and have a group of 30+ people ignoring Pokemon and learning about Outer Space before departing to catch a Pikachu.
Nothing has ever achieved such an indelible mark in my locale. After Niantic decided to conduct matters in a better manner, this has only increased.
It doesn't matter where you live in Europe that is a fantastic wage. That's the equivalent of $93,158/year. So I'm not sure if you're bragging or complaining or what but your comment is either insidious or ignorant.
To be fair, their tax rates are quite unusual. He makes less than I do, after all is said and done.
I never said a $13+ wage was a career target. That's what kids fresh out of high school make while attending college. I could be bitter because I didn't have the same opportunity, but my high school education allowed me some opportunities that kids three years my junior just couldn't touch. I see that as an EpicFail, however.
Depends on where you live. In 2000, you could live pretty well on $10 an hour. You still can today.
It's worth mentioning that jobs at that factory average out to more than just 40 hours a week, due to the way shifts are structured. Adjusting the same to a 40 hour week would yield an hourly wage of just under $15. On top of that, they tend to have overtime here and there.
Everything's moving this direction. I remember a factory I worked at back in 2000 paid new hires $8 an hour and until recently it wasn't much more than that. Then they automated the hell out of everything with more robots than people and pay over $13 an hour to start. And this is in a town with a very low cost of living. If you can keep up with the bots, you can stay.
I got a whole bunch of those calls. Sometimes there would be voicemails left and the associated voicemail number wouldn't match that of the incoming call. It was always the same message with the same female voice.
I only learned about Etsy through the old Regretsy site. People trying to pass off dresses bought from China as homemade, terrible Photoshop work, upcycling shit that should never be upcycled, and plenty of other stuff they classified as "whimsical fuckery". It was like Cake Wrecks, but for crafts.
If it's dangerous and/or boring, it's better to have a machine do it.
Machines are getting better at a lot of things. My first time through college, I got a decent amount of PLC training, but those units are now entirely obsolete. Machine vision was a thing back then, but you needed a highly-specialized $6,000 ISA card just to grab frames and analyze them. Now, you can do it with a potato-grade webcam and a Raspberry Pi.
I went back to school to get updated on as much as possible since I want to do maintenance now that Electronics and PC Repair have both taken a massive shit with everything moving toward being disposable. The maintenance guys I've met are all retiring and companies are aching to hire young blood. On top of that, industrial control boards still use through-hole components for durability reasons and I can repair that stuff in my sleep.
Jesus you're still here? I was looking for advice and you puked all over the dining table. Your sub-100K UID and a dollar will buy you a Coke. Spam the meat came before spam the junkmail term and I was referencing that, Senor Me-too. May you live forever.
Archer's spy organization couldn't be ISIS after Daesh took that name. 4chan did to Pepe what they did to Rage Guy and now that's dead, too. It's crystal clear 4chan's the real enemy.
I bought a Vive because the idea of Faceculus Riftbook was unappealing. The Oculus Touch controllers are definitely the better of the two on grip, alone.
This is not good. Every Microsoft needs an Apple and every FedEx needs a UPS. Competition is the only way to keep moving forward.
What about Silicon Graphics machines? I find it odd the article doesn't even mention SGI. I still have an O2 R12K, an Octane 2 R14K, and an Indigo 2 Impact R10K.
How is it that today's average 3+GHz 8-core badass CPU can be hobbled like that?
My jerry-rigged 486 DX/4-100MHz machine of 20 years ago didn't have that problem. What the hell am I missing?
My Pentium MMX 166MHz machine a year later was even less-handicapped.
GPUs, SSDs, there should be no excuses... what crucial bit am I missing? I'm serious. I haven't written any code in a very long time and something critical got overlooked.
In this age of everyone having a camera in their pocket, theaters don't really offer privacy like they used to.
That, and when I was a teen, the biggest TV I had access to was a 46" front projection POS from the early 80s and it required blackout curtains it was so dim. The next-largest "real" TV was a 25". I picked up a 70" 4K set during the holidays last year that blows away any cinema experience I've ever had, short of d-box seats. That and the fact we're no longer stuck with VHS kind of castrates the only thing cinema had going for it.
Plus, I can make my own damn popcorn with real butter for way less than a dollar for a big-ass bowl.
But I sure as shit hate when they play before (and even after) a video that's less than a minute long.
If I'm about to watch Louis Rossmann repair a logic board or dish about business for half an hour, that's fine. If I'm about to watch Vanoss, Delirious, et al get up to their gaming shenanigans for half an hour, that's also fine. But if I'm watching a cat video a few seconds long or checking to see if the remix video I found is the one I'm after, my patience wears thin in short order.
The number of ads that are showing up as commercial breaks within longer videos is getting ridiculous, too, for that matter. And the goddamn suggested viewing popup ads "You're watching a BlueStahli/Anthrax/(any metal) lyric video! Might we suggest the new Justin Bieber video?"
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In my Small-City (~20,000), Pokemon GO injected a lot of life into those who avoid the Church/Bar social-focus of the past... since-forever.
Last year, you could see 8-year-olds out with their parents at 2AM and strike up a (really freaking cool) conversation with a 50+ OrbitalATK Engineer a few minutes later and have a group of 30+ people ignoring Pokemon and learning about Outer Space before departing to catch a Pikachu.
Nothing has ever achieved such an indelible mark in my locale. After Niantic decided to conduct matters in a better manner, this has only increased.
The game lineup is amazing. Price will be a big deal.
Who hasn't heard/watched "Rawest Forest" (Super Mario RPG)?
I'm seen a lot of full movies with annotations on the official MST3K YouTube channel.
The annotations help when you don't quite get the jokes and the youngest viewers definitely won't. The new season fixes that.
I wonder which episodes? It would be nice to see some of the more obscure ones.
The math sort of doesn't line up,though. 38 episodes in 6 days is less than 10 hours a day. Maybe they run repeat rounds for people who are at work?
It doesn't matter where you live in Europe that is a fantastic wage. That's the equivalent of $93,158/year. So I'm not sure if you're bragging or complaining or what but your comment is either insidious or ignorant.
To be fair, their tax rates are quite unusual. He makes less than I do, after all is said and done.
I never said a $13+ wage was a career target. That's what kids fresh out of high school make while attending college. I could be bitter because I didn't have the same opportunity, but my high school education allowed me some opportunities that kids three years my junior just couldn't touch. I see that as an EpicFail, however.
Also $13/hr isn't much of a raise in 17 years.
Depends on where you live. In 2000, you could live pretty well on $10 an hour. You still can today.
It's worth mentioning that jobs at that factory average out to more than just 40 hours a week, due to the way shifts are structured. Adjusting the same to a 40 hour week would yield an hourly wage of just under $15. On top of that, they tend to have overtime here and there.
Everything's moving this direction. I remember a factory I worked at back in 2000 paid new hires $8 an hour and until recently it wasn't much more than that. Then they automated the hell out of everything with more robots than people and pay over $13 an hour to start. And this is in a town with a very low cost of living. If you can keep up with the bots, you can stay.
Mod parent up.
I got a whole bunch of those calls. Sometimes there would be voicemails left and the associated voicemail number wouldn't match that of the incoming call. It was always the same message with the same female voice.
I only learned about Etsy through the old Regretsy site. People trying to pass off dresses bought from China as homemade, terrible Photoshop work, upcycling shit that should never be upcycled, and plenty of other stuff they classified as "whimsical fuckery". It was like Cake Wrecks, but for crafts.
If it's dangerous and/or boring, it's better to have a machine do it.
Machines are getting better at a lot of things. My first time through college, I got a decent amount of PLC training, but those units are now entirely obsolete. Machine vision was a thing back then, but you needed a highly-specialized $6,000 ISA card just to grab frames and analyze them. Now, you can do it with a potato-grade webcam and a Raspberry Pi.
I went back to school to get updated on as much as possible since I want to do maintenance now that Electronics and PC Repair have both taken a massive shit with everything moving toward being disposable. The maintenance guys I've met are all retiring and companies are aching to hire young blood. On top of that, industrial control boards still use through-hole components for durability reasons and I can repair that stuff in my sleep.
Where does that fit? The "juice" is pretty much the same. I'd love to learn about this.
Jesus you're still here? I was looking for advice and you puked all over the dining table. Your sub-100K UID and a dollar will buy you a Coke.
Spam the meat came before spam the junkmail term and I was referencing that, Senor Me-too. May you live forever.
Archer's spy organization couldn't be ISIS after Daesh took that name. 4chan did to Pepe what they did to Rage Guy and now that's dead, too. It's crystal clear 4chan's the real enemy.
When I was told in 2012 that Slashdot's dying, I didn't believe it. I do now...
Fark takes the lead then.. ew.
Why would anyone mod this down as overrated? Slashdot's getting creepy as hell lately.
I bought a Vive because the idea of Faceculus Riftbook was unappealing. The Oculus Touch controllers are definitely the better of the two on grip, alone.
This is not good. Every Microsoft needs an Apple and every FedEx needs a UPS. Competition is the only way to keep moving forward.
Maybe I've been watching too many WolfePit videos, but I wasn't thinking email.
What about Silicon Graphics machines? I find it odd the article doesn't even mention SGI. I still have an O2 R12K, an Octane 2 R14K, and an Indigo 2 Impact R10K.
on that no rare earth materials page. One I understand. But three?! Cacaphony of GTFO no matter how good of a read the article may have been.
How is it that today's average 3+GHz 8-core badass CPU can be hobbled like that?
My jerry-rigged 486 DX/4-100MHz machine of 20 years ago didn't have that problem. What the hell am I missing?
My Pentium MMX 166MHz machine a year later was even less-handicapped.
GPUs, SSDs, there should be no excuses ... what crucial bit am I missing? I'm serious. I haven't written any code in a very long time and something critical got overlooked.
In this age of everyone having a camera in their pocket, theaters don't really offer privacy like they used to.
That, and when I was a teen, the biggest TV I had access to was a 46" front projection POS from the early 80s and it required blackout curtains it was so dim. The next-largest "real" TV was a 25". I picked up a 70" 4K set during the holidays last year that blows away any cinema experience I've ever had, short of d-box seats. That and the fact we're no longer stuck with VHS kind of castrates the only thing cinema had going for it.
Plus, I can make my own damn popcorn with real butter for way less than a dollar for a big-ass bowl.
How far we've come since the SGI Indigo 2 Max Impact is just phenomenal.
But I sure as shit hate when they play before (and even after) a video that's less than a minute long.
If I'm about to watch Louis Rossmann repair a logic board or dish about business for half an hour, that's fine.
If I'm about to watch Vanoss, Delirious, et al get up to their gaming shenanigans for half an hour, that's also fine.
But if I'm watching a cat video a few seconds long or checking to see if the remix video I found is the one I'm after, my patience wears thin in short order.
The number of ads that are showing up as commercial breaks within longer videos is getting ridiculous, too, for that matter.
And the goddamn suggested viewing popup ads "You're watching a BlueStahli/Anthrax/(any metal) lyric video! Might we suggest the new Justin Bieber video?"
That's a new one. My first thought was "What if androids have to pay income taxes in the future?"