The problem is that with the people cutting the cord you there aren't as many people to pay the relatively fixed costs to maintain the infrastructure. (Yes you could put off some of the costs but then it's worse later on when the network goes down because you didn't maintain it.) It becomes a death spiral as the company puts up the prices to pay for the infrastructure but as the prices go up, more people leave.
(The same thing is projected to happen to the electricity grid when easier, less expensive storage comes around for those with solar panels. This is especially true for those in areas with regressive governments that are trying to hold back forms of electrical generation that are less polluting.)
They are honest about WANTING those things. 7 in 10 want them until they find out it requires something like changing a lightbulb. 1 in 10 of them are willing to put the effort in and change their behaviour.
Why should they be able to use your photo in the DMV database to compare it to the other image without your consent? If it was a blood drop was left at the scene of the crime then you would have to give them consent in order for them to take a sample (or they would have to convince a judge that it was likely enough to be you in order to get a warrant).
In this case you are freely letting them access another departments database without your permission. Yes, I realize that they could easily call you in and take a picture while you were in public but for that to happen they would have to know who you are in the first place. If they placed their own camera in public that did the face recognition in real-time with no storage of data then there wouldn't be a problem either.
If it's okay to let the police troll through the photos of the DMV why not have the passport office (whatever office that is) collect your genetic information at the time you get your passport to help with identification if you are in an accident abroad and let the police departments compare DNA samples against that database? (Yes, I'm aware that the DNA database has been proposed by some country already.) Same thing. Don't go giving up your rights so easily as you will quickly find others will be taken away even quicker. Take a look at what is happening in the UK and what May's government wants to do with the Internet.
The problem is that studios are making money in a fairly safe method with the reboots and remakes so, to them at least, it doesn't make sense to take a risk on a new and innovative film. Even if I wanted to put my money on a new movie there hasn't been anything from Hollywood that's been worth looking at.
People from China, and the rest of Asia, have been coming to North America for at least 150 years so I don't understand where you are saying this is the second and third generation. There were spikes in immigration for gold rushes and building of the Canadian railways (don't know about the American ones).
The Energy Star program has caused manufacturers to lower the energy required by their products so as people replace things such as refrigerators, computers, washers, TVs, and the like they will normally get one that uses less electricity. I just purchased a freezer and it uses 25% less electricity than the previous generation which was made 4 years ago.
It's just too bad that Trump has proposed cutting the funds to the program in his budget. Consumers have saved $Bs because of this program and it costs nowhere that much to run.
I was in a job when we got a new CIO. He came in to see the web group (mostly Java programmers, couple analysts, couple graphic designers, a few project managers to deal with clients, and a group of five that handled legacy applications in C/Perl/PHP/Java along with the Apache configuration). When the CIO called us interchangeable cogs I actually felt the morale drop in the room. That was the second time in the meeting it happened. The first time was when he said he knew nothing about the Internet.
So society spends all that energy to grow food (tractors for planting, spraying, harvesting, herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, water, shipping, etc) just so that you can eat it and now they want to put something in your body to harvest a minute fraction of the inputs.
It's not punishment for Brexit. They've wanted to do this kind of stuff for years but needed to be out of the EU to do it. Once the UK is out of the EU the government will be free to trounce upon the rights of the people because citizens won't be able to go to the Supreme Court in Brussels.
They played the fear of immigrants along with lies that money no longer going to the EU would pay for everything, especially the NHS. The day after the vote they said there was no money for the NHS or anything else and they recently admitted it was all lies. And May will continue to promise a bunch of pretty things for the voters this election to get in so that she can finalize the UKs exit from the EU and introduce a bunch of draconian legislation such as this. All in the name to fight terrorism and protect the children. The people need most protecting from the politicians right now.
It's the Airport in City of London. All of the other airports in London are actually outside of the city. Here is a link to the map at Google. https://www.google.ca/maps/pla...
When I hear of cases like this (people getting fired but production being kept the same) I always want to hear about some of the management being fired too. Not only because heartless nature. Management has let the company get overstaffed and have been doing nothing about it. I know that Ford is a large company but surely managers must have noticed having too many people on the shifts or in the offices. Either that or the systems for monitoring don't exist or aren't working.
But by having these extra 20,000 workers on for the past while the company has wasted money paying them when their services weren't needed and now the company is going to pay out a lot more money in packages to get rid of them. If the management didn't let the headcount get that high in the first place then all that money wouldn't have been wasted.
I've seen it at high tech companies too where they grow because they are expected to grow. One place the manager's level was determined by the number of people under them so they hired and grabbed as many projects as they could to get promoted automatically. You aren't doing anyone any favours just to hire them in order to make up numbers. If you have meaningful work that will last a long time then hire them. Otherwise if you have the work make it a temporary job. And if you don't have work then don't hire them at all.
There was an excellent radio documentary I caught from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation by the program Background Briefing concerning the price of electricity. A lot of it had to do with the fact that the companies doing the distribution were being paid cost plus a fixed rate of profit and had little oversight on what they were doing. So lines were going in at the wrong places and the wrong sizes. After all if you massively overbuild a line or put a line in that isn't needed they were still getting paid for it.
(The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has some great programs on it and the people there should be very proud of their broadcaster.)
People are so quick to jump on the FIT program and green energy costs here in Ontario. They seem to forget the billion dollars we have to pay off in order to cancel a contract for a couple of gas turbine generating stations to be built so the Liberals could win those seats in an election. In a statement concerning the rate hikes a couple of years ago (2 or 3) raising wages were responsible for approximately half of the hike. There are a lot of people making over $100k in the power companies.
The best physics lectures I've seen are some by Richard Feynman that I downloaded from somewhere. Yes a professor in front of a chalkboard. But a professor that was enthralled with his subject and wanted to spread that enthusiasm with the audience. And he knew how to speak in public.
The problem with the university system (at least the one in Canada that I went to) was that the professors were hired based on the research that they had performed and for the research that they could do. Teaching was something that had to be done. Only two of my professors that I had courses with were good during my four years. They never received training on how to teach or even how to give an effective lecture. It doesn't matter what technology the professor is using if they don't really want to be teaching then they aren't going to be effective at it. Especially if you don't train them.
They are even cheaper than you think. But at least they are giving more money if you solve another persons problem.
From the article:
Under the terms of the bounty program, Cloudflare will award a total of $20,000 to those who can provide so-called "prior art" to show the patent Blackbird is using to sue Cloudflare—which dates from 1998 and is titled "Providing an internet third party data channel"—is invalid. Prior art can be anything from a journal article to a web page to a slideshow, and can invalidate a patent if it shows the invention is not new or is obvious.
Meanwhile, Cloudflare is setting aside another $30,000 to pay for prior art that can invalidate any of Blackbird's other patents, which it has listed on a dedicated website.
When I was with a government department I went to a meeting in which all of the people involved with the web applications met the new CIO for the department. One of the first things he said was that he knew nothing about the Internet. Up until that day I had never actually felt morale drop in a room before. Then he called us interchangeable cogs and I felt the morale drop again since we were developers, managers, graphic designers, and a few other professions.
(Turned out he meant the cog comment as a compliment because he intended to mean that we have the ability to do anything we wanted to. He actually believed this BS.)
At the end of the 60 minutes if your program doesn't compile then you aren't part of the 36%. You could be finishing a statement or part way through a function or have just forgotten a semi-colon and you are part of the 64%.
The title is very misleading by saying such a low number can write compilable code. Through any other group of students at it and I'm sure that you would get similar results.
Probably the head of a militia that doesn't believe in the authority of the FBI or any other police department if one where to go by how other department heads were filled.
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The problem is that with the people cutting the cord you there aren't as many people to pay the relatively fixed costs to maintain the infrastructure. (Yes you could put off some of the costs but then it's worse later on when the network goes down because you didn't maintain it.) It becomes a death spiral as the company puts up the prices to pay for the infrastructure but as the prices go up, more people leave.
(The same thing is projected to happen to the electricity grid when easier, less expensive storage comes around for those with solar panels. This is especially true for those in areas with regressive governments that are trying to hold back forms of electrical generation that are less polluting.)
Stopping smbd and removing any Windows machines that you have connect to your server will better and relieve more stress in your life. /s
They are honest about WANTING those things. 7 in 10 want them until they find out it requires something like changing a lightbulb. 1 in 10 of them are willing to put the effort in and change their behaviour.
Why should they be able to use your photo in the DMV database to compare it to the other image without your consent? If it was a blood drop was left at the scene of the crime then you would have to give them consent in order for them to take a sample (or they would have to convince a judge that it was likely enough to be you in order to get a warrant).
In this case you are freely letting them access another departments database without your permission. Yes, I realize that they could easily call you in and take a picture while you were in public but for that to happen they would have to know who you are in the first place. If they placed their own camera in public that did the face recognition in real-time with no storage of data then there wouldn't be a problem either.
If it's okay to let the police troll through the photos of the DMV why not have the passport office (whatever office that is) collect your genetic information at the time you get your passport to help with identification if you are in an accident abroad and let the police departments compare DNA samples against that database? (Yes, I'm aware that the DNA database has been proposed by some country already.) Same thing. Don't go giving up your rights so easily as you will quickly find others will be taken away even quicker. Take a look at what is happening in the UK and what May's government wants to do with the Internet.
The problem is that studios are making money in a fairly safe method with the reboots and remakes so, to them at least, it doesn't make sense to take a risk on a new and innovative film. Even if I wanted to put my money on a new movie there hasn't been anything from Hollywood that's been worth looking at.
People from China, and the rest of Asia, have been coming to North America for at least 150 years so I don't understand where you are saying this is the second and third generation. There were spikes in immigration for gold rushes and building of the Canadian railways (don't know about the American ones).
The Energy Star program has caused manufacturers to lower the energy required by their products so as people replace things such as refrigerators, computers, washers, TVs, and the like they will normally get one that uses less electricity. I just purchased a freezer and it uses 25% less electricity than the previous generation which was made 4 years ago.
It's just too bad that Trump has proposed cutting the funds to the program in his budget. Consumers have saved $Bs because of this program and it costs nowhere that much to run.
All of them, with a long enough timeframe.
I guess they must use .Net then. :)
I was in a job when we got a new CIO. He came in to see the web group (mostly Java programmers, couple analysts, couple graphic designers, a few project managers to deal with clients, and a group of five that handled legacy applications in C/Perl/PHP/Java along with the Apache configuration). When the CIO called us interchangeable cogs I actually felt the morale drop in the room. That was the second time in the meeting it happened. The first time was when he said he knew nothing about the Internet.
So society spends all that energy to grow food (tractors for planting, spraying, harvesting, herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, water, shipping, etc) just so that you can eat it and now they want to put something in your body to harvest a minute fraction of the inputs.
It's not punishment for Brexit. They've wanted to do this kind of stuff for years but needed to be out of the EU to do it. Once the UK is out of the EU the government will be free to trounce upon the rights of the people because citizens won't be able to go to the Supreme Court in Brussels.
They played the fear of immigrants along with lies that money no longer going to the EU would pay for everything, especially the NHS. The day after the vote they said there was no money for the NHS or anything else and they recently admitted it was all lies. And May will continue to promise a bunch of pretty things for the voters this election to get in so that she can finalize the UKs exit from the EU and introduce a bunch of draconian legislation such as this. All in the name to fight terrorism and protect the children. The people need most protecting from the politicians right now.
I think that they've been doing that for a while.
It's the Airport in City of London. All of the other airports in London are actually outside of the city. Here is a link to the map at Google. https://www.google.ca/maps/pla...
If what they are in now isn't trouble I'd hate to see what it is.
I wonder if they are going to cut jobs at plants that got grants in exchange for keeping so many jobs. If so I want some of the grant money back.
When I hear of cases like this (people getting fired but production being kept the same) I always want to hear about some of the management being fired too. Not only because heartless nature. Management has let the company get overstaffed and have been doing nothing about it. I know that Ford is a large company but surely managers must have noticed having too many people on the shifts or in the offices. Either that or the systems for monitoring don't exist or aren't working.
But by having these extra 20,000 workers on for the past while the company has wasted money paying them when their services weren't needed and now the company is going to pay out a lot more money in packages to get rid of them. If the management didn't let the headcount get that high in the first place then all that money wouldn't have been wasted.
I've seen it at high tech companies too where they grow because they are expected to grow. One place the manager's level was determined by the number of people under them so they hired and grabbed as many projects as they could to get promoted automatically. You aren't doing anyone any favours just to hire them in order to make up numbers. If you have meaningful work that will last a long time then hire them. Otherwise if you have the work make it a temporary job. And if you don't have work then don't hire them at all.
Did you want CFL or NFL? There's a big difference in the length between the two with the CFL field being longer.
That's leaving a lot of work to be done to get someone landed on Mars in the remaining time of Trumps first term! /s
There was an excellent radio documentary I caught from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation by the program Background Briefing concerning the price of electricity. A lot of it had to do with the fact that the companies doing the distribution were being paid cost plus a fixed rate of profit and had little oversight on what they were doing. So lines were going in at the wrong places and the wrong sizes. After all if you massively overbuild a line or put a line in that isn't needed they were still getting paid for it.
(The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has some great programs on it and the people there should be very proud of their broadcaster.)
People are so quick to jump on the FIT program and green energy costs here in Ontario. They seem to forget the billion dollars we have to pay off in order to cancel a contract for a couple of gas turbine generating stations to be built so the Liberals could win those seats in an election. In a statement concerning the rate hikes a couple of years ago (2 or 3) raising wages were responsible for approximately half of the hike. There are a lot of people making over $100k in the power companies.
The best physics lectures I've seen are some by Richard Feynman that I downloaded from somewhere. Yes a professor in front of a chalkboard. But a professor that was enthralled with his subject and wanted to spread that enthusiasm with the audience. And he knew how to speak in public.
The problem with the university system (at least the one in Canada that I went to) was that the professors were hired based on the research that they had performed and for the research that they could do. Teaching was something that had to be done. Only two of my professors that I had courses with were good during my four years. They never received training on how to teach or even how to give an effective lecture. It doesn't matter what technology the professor is using if they don't really want to be teaching then they aren't going to be effective at it. Especially if you don't train them.
They are even cheaper than you think. But at least they are giving more money if you solve another persons problem.
From the article:
Under the terms of the bounty program, Cloudflare will award a total of $20,000 to those who can provide so-called "prior art" to show the patent Blackbird is using to sue Cloudflare—which dates from 1998 and is titled "Providing an internet third party data channel"—is invalid. Prior art can be anything from a journal article to a web page to a slideshow, and can invalidate a patent if it shows the invention is not new or is obvious.
Meanwhile, Cloudflare is setting aside another $30,000 to pay for prior art that can invalidate any of Blackbird's other patents, which it has listed on a dedicated website.
What could possibly go wrong???
When I was with a government department I went to a meeting in which all of the people involved with the web applications met the new CIO for the department. One of the first things he said was that he knew nothing about the Internet. Up until that day I had never actually felt morale drop in a room before. Then he called us interchangeable cogs and I felt the morale drop again since we were developers, managers, graphic designers, and a few other professions.
(Turned out he meant the cog comment as a compliment because he intended to mean that we have the ability to do anything we wanted to. He actually believed this BS.)
At the end of the 60 minutes if your program doesn't compile then you aren't part of the 36%. You could be finishing a statement or part way through a function or have just forgotten a semi-colon and you are part of the 64%.
The title is very misleading by saying such a low number can write compilable code. Through any other group of students at it and I'm sure that you would get similar results.
Probably the head of a militia that doesn't believe in the authority of the FBI or any other police department if one where to go by how other department heads were filled.