The key word here is "accredited institutions." If that's done right, it is less abusive and potentially less of a problem for workers than an H1B since they can shop around for better jobs.
Or you could just install the taxi cab app for your smart phone? For the companies that operate in your city, that is. Uber isn't unique in providing that option, just unique in illegally dodging the costs of safe business while continuing to operate.
The one taxi company with an app here lets you use it to order only. It doesn't let me pay and doesn't tell me where the taxi is when it's on the way. And I still get to wait 30 mins for a taxi.
I defend Uber because I can pay online and have a car arrive wherever I am in 3-7 minutes. If I take a taxi I have to call, wait 15-30 minutes with no feedback about what is happening and then the driver will get all whiny if I want to pay by bank or credit card. So if I take a taxi, I have to plan ahead and have taken money from the bank machine before hand and also call a half hour in advance, making it useless for moments where I missed the bus and still want to arrive at work on time.
You must get bothered easily. Being that most devices if they are to fail it would be within the first month of operation. That is why it is normal for companies when they get new servers they do a 48 hour burn in session to make sure the server survives the first 48 hours and after that chances are the server will last for the long time.
1 Year or 2 Year isn't really that big of a deal for electronics with little to no moving parts.
The fact that America says one year and the EU says 2, is just legal semantics
That's great for things that run in a controlled environment and for things you tend not to plug and unplug on a regular basis. Meanwhile a couple of weeks back a woman hands me a tablet repair and the micro USB port had worked loose and torn itself off the plastic ribbon cable. It took it 1.5 years to do that.
To add to this, Cisco's reliability has gone down sharply over the last decade. Gone are the days where you could trust that Cisco could handle anything you threw at it. A few years back one of my customers had a firewall that kept hard crashing and then rebooting, I had them upgrade the memory and it stopped crashing long enough to let me know that someone had installed a botnet node behind the firewall. I get that it was a LOT of connections, but hard crashing is not an acceptable failure mode for a firewall.
Don't even get me started on them EOLing their VPN software and replacing it with something the users really hate using and is much more expensive to deploy.
Not surprising coming from a company that trolls other SSL Certificate Authorities and tries to steal their customers. Everytime my GoDaddy certs are up for renewal, these bitches from Comodo start calling and telling me how much money they can save me.
That's nothing, they called me and tried to get me to switch away from their own resellers.
I think ultimately the community has been taken by surprise at the massive surge in most distros toward systemd. Different distros have all kinds of diverse things under the hood, different package managers, different locations for stuff, etc. But systemd just swarmed over everything, it seems really odd.
No, forum posters were taken by surprise. Fedora started using it in Nov 2010 and set it default 6 months later. RHEL introduced it 3 years after Fedora (2014). Debian had a massive 4 months long discussion complete with web pages detailing the pros and cons of each init system before coming to an agreement in early 2014.
Really though, the only actual problem I ever had with it was that on MY PC, I had removed a dead drive and never replaced it. When the SystemD update happened, it just hung. Ihe earlier versions of SystemD never told me why the boot was just hanging for several minutes. An later update had the boot process show me that it was hanging on the drive mounts. It turns out that my old init system was silently failing to mount the drive and then moving on.
I don't know if I agree with point 1. SNAPS (as a concept) should be better for third party apps because the APP as it is packaged, now imports all of the libraries it needs. The downside of course, l is that if some library has a security issue, you must wait for the package maintainer of each SNAP app that contains it to do the update.
Google talk has a decent phone based chat but their desktop software is web based and annoying. There are some plugins for Pidgin but they don't work as well as the official software.
You keep trying to imagine what I am thinking and create arguments based on what you think I am thinking but you are getting it horribly wrong.
In both cases the equipment is the cheaper side of the equation. Most of the expense is in the actual running of the cables, the cost of paying for wherever municipal fees/rental for the space the cables take in the ground, and repairing faults as they happen. The difference is that we can (with some equipment on the back end) plug multiple users into the same uplink to the backbone and aggregate the cost.
Again, our uplink provider is not selling us anything below cost and I never saw any argument in the original article about forcing the backbones to lower cost, only that they couldn't justify charging usage based pricing to their own customers.
LOL now I know you are trolling. You provided that second link with no context whatsoever as to what it is.
And yes, I am. As I said I work for an internet provider and a few years back I worked for another one that had it's own DSLAMs in the telco buildings and in both cases, the cost of the uplink was the minority cost and I can be pretty sure that uplink was not sold to us below cost. The cost of connecting the last mile and providing support is where the bulk of the expense is.
Wow, I take it you have no idea of how things work.
The expensive part of the internet connection is the last mile. Each endpoint has a cost to it and that's why server co-locations often have faster connections for less than you can get at home with larger data transfer allowances. I don't get how you compare that to an MVNO who rents the last mile from someone else.
They pay their upstream provider for their share of the cost of the internet backbone and here is a hint from someone who actually works from the industry: You pay for your usage on the backbone unless you are large enough for peering. The price is also not linear. Ex an unmetered gigabit connection is less than the cost of two 100mbps. Going the other way a 10 gigabit connection here (Montreal Canada) is only four to five times the cost of a gigabit connection despite being 10 times faster.
If they are paying for their uplink, and they have upgraded their internal connections to the point where they aren't saturated we should pretty well take them seriously when they say they don't need to charge based on usage.
If they are paying their uplink providers for enough bandwidth and all of their internal interconnections aren't saturated and after all that they say that
$250 per thermostat which is tolerable if you have central heating. In my case, my apartment has 7 thermostats that's almost $3000. On top of that, each device needs batteries which I would find myself constantly replacing.
Canada is at 8.9%. I know Roger's made the switch, I just don't know when exactly since they didn't announce it. I only noticed when I was showing one friend another one's website and it was erroring out, Turns out the issue was that the website had ipv6 configured in DNS but no ipv6 VHOPST entry. It was a weird one and my friend had no idea he even had Ipv6 enabled. I think Telus has it enabled on landline infrastructure as well.
I can tell your code quality by your arrogant post that just assumes people who don't understand your code aren't trained enough.
Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place.
So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
--- Brian Kernigan, "The Elements of Programming Style", 2nd edition, chapter 2
I had this quote framed and put on the wall at the last place I worked were btw, some new guy wanted to tear up perfectly working C and replace it with SCALA so it would be more "modern" and tried to go over my head to do it.. At the job before that, I had to sit there for a week as a possible client went through my code and then decided it looked easy enough that they could re implement it themselves (turns out, no they couldn't)
"Messy" is not about not writing complicated code messy is about being complicated when you don't have to be and not properly abstracting the complicated parts and not commenting the worst parts. Messy is about over depending on order of operations instead of using brackets to make things more clear (to top this off, many compilers screw up order of operations so the code may not be doing what you think). Messy is about doing the same complicated thing 5 times instead of making a function (or even a macro) to do the work. Messy is about not knowing when to split a function into a separate one rather than adding new parameters to the existing function to make it handle more cases.
Don't even get me started on programmers who think cleaning up compile warnings is a waste of time or who split databases for speed reasons (hint: if you are always joining the same 3 tables in every query it's not faster any more)
(of course *I* want that to be an option - I paid for the damn phone)
So vote with your wallet and only buy phones with unlocked bootloaders.. On the upside, they are usually cheaper and come with nice options like dual sim.
I'm inclined to doubt this, mainly because this doesn't look like the Spain (Or at leas the Madrid area where I spent 5 years) where they tolerated regular protests to the point where they got annoying. During the Occupy movement, the squatters stayed for months with a mini tent city where people were even managing to run businesses/recruit for religious movements from the tents and the police did nothing until the pope was about to arrive and they wanted to clear space in the main square, and the unions strike every May on principal.
Man I wish that were true where I have worked.. In once case the programmer called me "Code Nazi" and then took advantage of his higher but lower quality output to suck up to the boss.
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The key word here is "accredited institutions." If that's done right, it is less abusive and potentially less of a problem for workers than an H1B since they can shop around for better jobs.
Or you could just install the taxi cab app for your smart phone? For the companies that operate in your city, that is. Uber isn't unique in providing that option, just unique in illegally dodging the costs of safe business while continuing to operate.
The one taxi company with an app here lets you use it to order only. It doesn't let me pay and doesn't tell me where the taxi is when it's on the way. And I still get to wait 30 mins for a taxi.
I defend Uber because I can pay online and have a car arrive wherever I am in 3-7 minutes. If I take a taxi I have to call, wait 15-30 minutes with no feedback about what is happening and then the driver will get all whiny if I want to pay by bank or credit card. So if I take a taxi, I have to plan ahead and have taken money from the bank machine before hand and also call a half hour in advance, making it useless for moments where I missed the bus and still want to arrive at work on time.
You must get bothered easily.
Being that most devices if they are to fail it would be within the first month of operation. That is why it is normal for companies when they get new servers they do a 48 hour burn in session to make sure the server survives the first 48 hours and after that chances are the server will last for the long time.
1 Year or 2 Year isn't really that big of a deal for electronics with little to no moving parts.
The fact that America says one year and the EU says 2, is just legal semantics
That's great for things that run in a controlled environment and for things you tend not to plug and unplug on a regular basis. Meanwhile a couple of weeks back a woman hands me a tablet repair and the micro USB port had worked loose and torn itself off the plastic ribbon cable. It took it 1.5 years to do that.
To add to this, Cisco's reliability has gone down sharply over the last decade. Gone are the days where you could trust that Cisco could handle anything you threw at it. A few years back one of my customers had a firewall that kept hard crashing and then rebooting, I had them upgrade the memory and it stopped crashing long enough to let me know that someone had installed a botnet node behind the firewall. I get that it was a LOT of connections, but hard crashing is not an acceptable failure mode for a firewall.
Don't even get me started on them EOLing their VPN software and replacing it with something the users really hate using and is much more expensive to deploy.
Not surprising coming from a company that trolls other SSL Certificate Authorities and tries to steal their customers. Everytime my GoDaddy certs are up for renewal, these bitches from Comodo start calling and telling me how much money they can save me.
That's nothing, they called me and tried to get me to switch away from their own resellers.
For cases like that, you can get a U2F key. It is a USB dongle so no internet connection required.
It's a region coded block and doesn't work for me either Whoever uploaded the video locked it so it only plays in one country.
Here is a list of the top 100 youtube channels. At first glance, it looks like most of them are not using pirated content.
I think ultimately the community has been taken by surprise at the massive surge in most distros toward systemd. Different distros have all kinds of diverse things under the hood, different package managers, different locations for stuff, etc. But systemd just swarmed over everything, it seems really odd.
No, forum posters were taken by surprise. Fedora started using it in Nov 2010 and set it default 6 months later. RHEL introduced it 3 years after Fedora (2014). Debian had a massive 4 months long discussion complete with web pages detailing the pros and cons of each init system before coming to an agreement in early 2014.
Really though, the only actual problem I ever had with it was that on MY PC, I had removed a dead drive and never replaced it. When the SystemD update happened, it just hung. Ihe earlier versions of SystemD never told me why the boot was just hanging for several minutes. An later update had the boot process show me that it was hanging on the drive mounts. It turns out that my old init system was silently failing to mount the drive and then moving on.
I don't know if I agree with point 1. SNAPS (as a concept) should be better for third party apps because the APP as it is packaged, now imports all of the libraries it needs. The downside of course, l is that if some library has a security issue, you must wait for the package maintainer of each SNAP app that contains it to do the update.
Google talk has a decent phone based chat but their desktop software is web based and annoying. There are some plugins for Pidgin but they don't work as well as the official software.
You keep trying to imagine what I am thinking and create arguments based on what you think I am thinking but you are getting it horribly wrong.
In both cases the equipment is the cheaper side of the equation. Most of the expense is in the actual running of the cables, the cost of paying for wherever municipal fees/rental for the space the cables take in the ground, and repairing faults as they happen. The difference is that we can (with some equipment on the back end) plug multiple users into the same uplink to the backbone and aggregate the cost.
Again, our uplink provider is not selling us anything below cost and I never saw any argument in the original article about forcing the backbones to lower cost, only that they couldn't justify charging usage based pricing to their own customers.
LOL now I know you are trolling. You provided that second link with no context whatsoever as to what it is.
And yes, I am. As I said I work for an internet provider and a few years back I worked for another one that had it's own DSLAMs in the telco buildings and in both cases, the cost of the uplink was the minority cost and I can be pretty sure that uplink was not sold to us below cost. The cost of connecting the last mile and providing support is where the bulk of the expense is.
Wow, I take it you have no idea of how things work.
The expensive part of the internet connection is the last mile. Each endpoint has a cost to it and that's why server co-locations often have faster connections for less than you can get at home with larger data transfer allowances. I don't get how you compare that to an MVNO who rents the last mile from someone else.
They pay their upstream provider for their share of the cost of the internet backbone and here is a hint from someone who actually works from the industry: You pay for your usage on the backbone unless you are large enough for peering. The price is also not linear. Ex an unmetered gigabit connection is less than the cost of two 100mbps. Going the other way a 10 gigabit connection here (Montreal Canada) is only four to five times the cost of a gigabit connection despite being 10 times faster.
If they are paying for their uplink, and they have upgraded their internal connections to the point where they aren't saturated we should pretty well take them seriously when they say they don't need to charge based on usage.
If they are paying their uplink providers for enough bandwidth and all of their internal interconnections aren't saturated and after all that they say that
Your *apartment* has 7 thermostats? That seems to be its own problem. Does every closet have its own thermostat?
One per bedroom, plus livingroom, kitchen, bathroom and entranceway. Not my favorite design.
$250 per thermostat which is tolerable if you have central heating. In my case, my apartment has 7 thermostats that's almost $3000. On top of that, each device needs batteries which I would find myself constantly replacing.
VHOST even.. man I can't type when I wake up in the morning.
Canada is at 8.9%. I know Roger's made the switch, I just don't know when exactly since they didn't announce it. I only noticed when I was showing one friend another one's website and it was erroring out, Turns out the issue was that the website had ipv6 configured in DNS but no ipv6 VHOPST entry. It was a weird one and my friend had no idea he even had Ipv6 enabled. I think Telus has it enabled on landline infrastructure as well.
I can tell your code quality by your arrogant post that just assumes people who don't understand your code aren't trained enough.
Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place.
So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
--- Brian Kernigan, "The Elements of Programming Style", 2nd edition, chapter 2
I had this quote framed and put on the wall at the last place I worked were btw, some new guy wanted to tear up perfectly working C and replace it with SCALA so it would be more "modern" and tried to go over my head to do it.. At the job before that, I had to sit there for a week as a possible client went through my code and then decided it looked easy enough that they could re implement it themselves (turns out, no they couldn't)
"Messy" is not about not writing complicated code messy is about being complicated when you don't have to be and not properly abstracting the complicated parts and not commenting the worst parts. Messy is about over depending on order of operations instead of using brackets to make things more clear (to top this off, many compilers screw up order of operations so the code may not be doing what you think). Messy is about doing the same complicated thing 5 times instead of making a function (or even a macro) to do the work. Messy is about not knowing when to split a function into a separate one rather than adding new parameters to the existing function to make it handle more cases.
Don't even get me started on programmers who think cleaning up compile warnings is a waste of time or who split databases for speed reasons (hint: if you are always joining the same 3 tables in every query it's not faster any more)
Some of the Android media centers are cheaper than the Pi once you include the cost of the remote.
Anyone else miss the old days when breaches resulted in a trashed machine so only the owner of the machine had to suffer for their lack of security?
(of course *I* want that to be an option - I paid for the damn phone)
So vote with your wallet and only buy phones with unlocked bootloaders.. On the upside, they are usually cheaper and come with nice options like dual sim.
I'm inclined to doubt this, mainly because this doesn't look like the Spain (Or at leas the Madrid area where I spent 5 years) where they tolerated regular protests to the point where they got annoying. During the Occupy movement, the squatters stayed for months with a mini tent city where people were even managing to run businesses/recruit for religious movements from the tents and the police did nothing until the pope was about to arrive and they wanted to clear space in the main square, and the unions strike every May on principal.
Man I wish that were true where I have worked.. In once case the programmer called me "Code Nazi" and then took advantage of his higher but lower quality output to suck up to the boss.