It's pretty much impossible for rent to be cheaper long-term. Rent must include the cost of the property PLUS maintenance costs PLUS profit to the landlord. Rent rises and falls with the marketplace, whereas your mortgage payment remains the same. My mortgage started out being on par with rent, and now it's about half the price of a similar rental. And at the end of 30 years, you have a house. At the end of 30 years of renting, you have nothing but the alleged savings.
Windows 8 is fully functional over RDP right now. In full screen, it works seamlessly; in windowed mode you have to use keyboard or title bar shortcuts.
I guess I'm going on the theory that since we have already created machines that do some human/biological things (like arithmetic, visual processing, sound analysis) in completely different ways than our own brains do it, that we will no doubt continue to improve upon that. 50 years is no time at all in a field like this. After all, it takes 18 years to teach a human to be basically competent, and that's with a brain that is already built. Considering that they've got that IBM machine that's able to play Jeopardy, that's a heck of a lot of progress from the relays and vacuum tubes of 50+ years ago.
Looking at it from another perspective, who is to say that a beehive or an anthill or a mushroom don't have a sort of intelligence? Maybe they can't think, but they can solve problems and work around obstacles faster than simple iteration or brute force would suggest.
Our brains aren't the only possible way to create intelligence. We can make machines that solve B without ever getting close to A. In fact, it will probably be those machines that inform the science of A.
And when you look at the subscriber fees the content providers charge, plus the retransmission fees the OTA networks charge, the actual cost of delivering the service to the house isn't all that bad. The real problem is on the content side.
If you have cable, then the bandwidth is available. Whether the company chooses to deploy it is another story. Fiber+coax networks are very scalable. Especially if they converted everything to IP and used multicast for live things. My rough math says that catv has 150 something channels, each of which are just 38mbps data streams. I mean, "U-Verse" is just IPTV over DSL, and even that can sustain something like 3 or 4 live channels + internet to each house.
See, I worked my ass off to get to a position where I can spend $100 a month on internet+tv. Maybe I get my money's worth, maybe I don't. I'll save the money some other way. But when I want to watch something, I just want to turn the tv on and watch it. I'm not just paying for content, I'm paying for convenience. The ability to tell WMC "record series" and have it all waiting there for me when I want it can't be underestimated. Or overestimated. I'm tired. I like it a lot, is what I mean.
Some states don't just allow filing online, they require it. Also, I'm pretty sure UI maxes out at some amount, usually somewhere between minimum wage and 2x minimum wage. More if you have dependents.
It doesn't really matter whether it is a layoff or a firing. What matters is whether if it is for-cause or not. If you did something that was against the rules, and they followed their standard policy in firing you, then you are considered to have been fired for-cause, and not eligible for unemployment insurance. If, however, you played by the rules you agreed to and they tell you your services are no longer needed, you get unemployment insurance.
If they actually fire you for simply giving notice, then you probably are entitled to unemployment insurance. But that would mean that they stopped paying you on the day you gave notice. If you give 2 weeks notice and they keep paying you for those two weeks, it doesn't matter whether you have to show up or not: you quit and don't get UI.
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. If it is earned (compensation), then the employer is generally required to pay out. (IE, it is a part of the compensation: for every 8 hours of work, you earn one paid vacation hour.) If it is an allowance (a perk), they usually aren't. (IE, sick days- if you can't work, they will let you slide. But you have to be sick.)
It never existed, except in the imaginations of people whose fathers didn't get fired for 30 years. I've worked for the same place for 15 years, and I suppose I could delude myself into thinking that they have some kind of loyalty to me. Or I could take it for what it is: my labor is valuable to them. The instant it ceases to be, I get to hit the bricks.
Being forced to work for a certain amount of time after deciding you don't want to work anymore seems like something less than employee protection. At will employment is brutal, but it is fair.
That's why you have a training policy. If you jump ship after X years, you owe them the money back. Or you don't get reimbursed for training expenses for 24 months. Or whatever.
Not if using the computer is more convenient. The last time I was in a hospital room, they had a thin client for every bed, and the nurse, doctor, PT person- whoever-, logged into it and entered their notes before leaving the room. The lab and the xray people did the same thing. Their report just "prints" to the patient's record.
The story I read said they met expectations. The stock is down partially because the overall market is down, and partially because investors are afraid something is looming behind the scenes.
Far as I know, the NSA revelations were not about back doors in individual products. The NSA isn't going to put back doors into stuff. They are about securing the US's interests, not weakening them.
Dilbert was making fun of belt-attached technology like 10 years ago. It is passe. You might as well be wearing a beard, giant gold wire frame glasses and a Cosby sweater and a gold pinky ring, or suspenders and a blue shirt with white collar and cuffs. Or a bluetooth headset.
Because you don't know whether it's true or not until after the fact. Racism is using race as a factor in making value judgements or decisions about someone.
70% of the crimes might well be committed by one race according to the FBI statistics, but the majority of the members of that race aren't criminals. Even if it WAS true that 70% of black people, it would be unethical and immoral to treat the entire race any differently, since it subjects that other 30% to punishment for sins they haven't committed.
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Because it's convenient? "Oh look, i have new email!" "Oh look, ProgramX is done doing what I told it to!"
Holy shit, combining those two functional areas is the whole damned point.
It's pretty much impossible for rent to be cheaper long-term. Rent must include the cost of the property PLUS maintenance costs PLUS profit to the landlord. Rent rises and falls with the marketplace, whereas your mortgage payment remains the same. My mortgage started out being on par with rent, and now it's about half the price of a similar rental. And at the end of 30 years, you have a house. At the end of 30 years of renting, you have nothing but the alleged savings.
$60 grand isn't all that much for a car these days. Especially one in that class (large, fast sedan).
Copyright is a right held by the creator of the content. He has the right to choose whether to release his works into the public domain. Or not.
Windows 8 is fully functional over RDP right now. In full screen, it works seamlessly; in windowed mode you have to use keyboard or title bar shortcuts.
I guess I'm going on the theory that since we have already created machines that do some human/biological things (like arithmetic, visual processing, sound analysis) in completely different ways than our own brains do it, that we will no doubt continue to improve upon that. 50 years is no time at all in a field like this. After all, it takes 18 years to teach a human to be basically competent, and that's with a brain that is already built. Considering that they've got that IBM machine that's able to play Jeopardy, that's a heck of a lot of progress from the relays and vacuum tubes of 50+ years ago.
Looking at it from another perspective, who is to say that a beehive or an anthill or a mushroom don't have a sort of intelligence? Maybe they can't think, but they can solve problems and work around obstacles faster than simple iteration or brute force would suggest.
Our brains aren't the only possible way to create intelligence. We can make machines that solve B without ever getting close to A. In fact, it will probably be those machines that inform the science of A.
Except you waste gallons and gallons of gasoline over the life of the vehicle carrying around all that useless mass.
And when you look at the subscriber fees the content providers charge, plus the retransmission fees the OTA networks charge, the actual cost of delivering the service to the house isn't all that bad. The real problem is on the content side.
If you have cable, then the bandwidth is available. Whether the company chooses to deploy it is another story. Fiber+coax networks are very scalable. Especially if they converted everything to IP and used multicast for live things. My rough math says that catv has 150 something channels, each of which are just 38mbps data streams. I mean, "U-Verse" is just IPTV over DSL, and even that can sustain something like 3 or 4 live channels + internet to each house.
See, I worked my ass off to get to a position where I can spend $100 a month on internet+tv. Maybe I get my money's worth, maybe I don't. I'll save the money some other way. But when I want to watch something, I just want to turn the tv on and watch it. I'm not just paying for content, I'm paying for convenience. The ability to tell WMC "record series" and have it all waiting there for me when I want it can't be underestimated. Or overestimated. I'm tired. I like it a lot, is what I mean.
Some states don't just allow filing online, they require it. Also, I'm pretty sure UI maxes out at some amount, usually somewhere between minimum wage and 2x minimum wage. More if you have dependents.
It doesn't really matter whether it is a layoff or a firing. What matters is whether if it is for-cause or not. If you did something that was against the rules, and they followed their standard policy in firing you, then you are considered to have been fired for-cause, and not eligible for unemployment insurance. If, however, you played by the rules you agreed to and they tell you your services are no longer needed, you get unemployment insurance.
If they actually fire you for simply giving notice, then you probably are entitled to unemployment insurance. But that would mean that they stopped paying you on the day you gave notice. If you give 2 weeks notice and they keep paying you for those two weeks, it doesn't matter whether you have to show up or not: you quit and don't get UI.
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. If it is earned (compensation), then the employer is generally required to pay out. (IE, it is a part of the compensation: for every 8 hours of work, you earn one paid vacation hour.) If it is an allowance (a perk), they usually aren't. (IE, sick days- if you can't work, they will let you slide. But you have to be sick.)
It never existed, except in the imaginations of people whose fathers didn't get fired for 30 years. I've worked for the same place for 15 years, and I suppose I could delude myself into thinking that they have some kind of loyalty to me. Or I could take it for what it is: my labor is valuable to them. The instant it ceases to be, I get to hit the bricks.
Do they give you any kind of severance? If they do, then that counts as notice.
Being forced to work for a certain amount of time after deciding you don't want to work anymore seems like something less than employee protection. At will employment is brutal, but it is fair.
That's why you have a training policy. If you jump ship after X years, you owe them the money back. Or you don't get reimbursed for training expenses for 24 months. Or whatever.
Not if using the computer is more convenient. The last time I was in a hospital room, they had a thin client for every bed, and the nurse, doctor, PT person- whoever-, logged into it and entered their notes before leaving the room. The lab and the xray people did the same thing. Their report just "prints" to the patient's record.
What does that have to do with the NSA?
The story I read said they met expectations. The stock is down partially because the overall market is down, and partially because investors are afraid something is looming behind the scenes.
Far as I know, the NSA revelations were not about back doors in individual products. The NSA isn't going to put back doors into stuff. They are about securing the US's interests, not weakening them.
Eeeeew.
Dilbert was making fun of belt-attached technology like 10 years ago. It is passe. You might as well be wearing a beard, giant gold wire frame glasses and a Cosby sweater and a gold pinky ring, or suspenders and a blue shirt with white collar and cuffs. Or a bluetooth headset.
Because you don't know whether it's true or not until after the fact. Racism is using race as a factor in making value judgements or decisions about someone.
70% of the crimes might well be committed by one race according to the FBI statistics, but the majority of the members of that race aren't criminals. Even if it WAS true that 70% of black people, it would be unethical and immoral to treat the entire race any differently, since it subjects that other 30% to punishment for sins they haven't committed.