Heh, you should see my wife's laptop (being used more as a desktop due to heat problems) - every port is used, including 2 going out to a USB hub in the monitor, which is also filled up. The only ones that didn't get used were the firewire.
Neither of which are significantly better than the budget laptop I bought years ago.
2 HDD slots, i7-3630QM, 8GB RAM, 17" screen, GTX650M, with more ports.
Obviously 8th gen is better than 3rd gen, 32>8, and an incrementally better graphics card but overall, given that in today's dollars I paid $250 less... and in Canadian dollars not USD. Things are really going backwards.
We need to start a storage arms race. I could easily use PB HDDs but we're barely advancing on that front. Phones should start at terabyte storage, not laptops.
As someone with ADHD and been on most of the meds: DUH!
Yes, the meds help focus. This is particularly helpful for hyperactive symptoms where, as they describe it, "a thousand thoughts happen at once" - it's very helpful to focus amidst all that noise. It also helps to speed up things very slightly to deal with the slower than normal pathways the ADHD brain uses.
It doesn't help working memory, one of the worst aspects, nor does it help impulse control. Memory might be improved by Alzheimer medication but ultimately medications are an aid, not a cure.
As a linguist will tell you - "originally" doesn't mean shit. It's what is it currently used for that matters - which is a wide range of white liquid substances
You can buy coconut milk in stores too. Milk simply refers to a milky white liquid - it's not specific to mammal milk. They don't call it Milkweed because it has nipples, they call it that due to the milky white sap. Almonds have a milky white liquid when pressed, etc.
Tech doesn't need to stay rooted in any country. You can't break them up because if you try they'll just move. If you do break them up, another global tech firm can swoop in and put the smaller players out of business. If you break up Alphabet, then Baidu is waiting in the wings to replace them and out of reach of US regulators. Tech is a global arms race which is why you see things like Justin Trudeau making it a national initiative to poach AI experts.
So what you're really saying is that there are 21 600 000 000 cubic kilometers worth of diamonds and they really are just worthless rocks - not worth the thousands people spend on them. Yes, it makes perfect sense.
Actually, it was more predominant in those under 65 and no correlation was noted regarding pre-existing conditions. It did note that women were affected more than men, suggesting that the increased rate of sleep deprivation in women may play a factor.
Companies don't show employees respect anymore - a gazillion interviews, testing, privacy invasion of social accounts, etc. and if you're not the candidate they're going to choose, they ghost you in a heartbeat.
Why should sought after employees treat companies any better than they treat employees who are seeking to work for them?
Until recently you could watch John Oliver on YouTube - not the full episode but the main story. They've blocked Canadians from accessing it, likely at the behest of Bell Canada who owns TMN Go, the service you need to subscribe to at that link.
That means you need a cable package that includes The Movie Network (extra $20 on top of the cable package, so a minimum of $45)
The problem with UBI in the manner you describe is inflation/buying power. It just becomes UBI + Minimum Wage = subsistence living. In the scenario the Ontario Government is pursuing everyone would get UBI. The claw back is done by the employer not the government, so 50% of the wage earned, up to double UBI is sent back to the government and once you exceed the cap 100% of UBI.
Example:
UBI of $17,000 + Minimum Wage, you now know that your average individual is making a before tax income of $46,120.
UBI of $17k + claw back the average minimum wage individual is making a before tax income of $31,560
The latter makes UBI money significantly larger in terms of buying power so that the person who's out of work can still afford the basics. Taking rent as an example (30% of gross), it's the difference between average rents of $1150 and $800. Someone on $17k would be spending 55% towards rent at $800, difficult but doable. At $1150 that's 81% of UBI towards rent which, while doable in the short term, is insanely difficult and requires a lot of sacrifice (including your health - I can attest to that fact as we did it for 3 years - it was fucking brutal)
Ontario already has that... OSAP when students parents are not wealthy enough to afford to send their children to post-secondary and Second Career which pays for retraining - up to 2 year programs I believe.
Part of the benefit of this program is eliminating dehumanizing and expensive bureaucracy. Rather than going through all sorts of hoops to qualify as a class (welfare, disability, etc) they'd eliminate all those agencies and simply give everyone UBI that's clawed back as you start to get income. It's enough to keep you housed/fed but not much more so there's still an incentive to improve your situation. It would also empower minimum wage employees to be able to walk away from bad working conditions which should help improve the safety/abusive practices that go on at the minimum wage level.
For something like that you don't need an army of lawyers - just small claims court an a subpoena for Jeff Bezos to appear. He is legally responsible for all actions taken by his company after all. That alone would generate a settlement in most cases which turns a few hundred dollar return into a multi-thousand dollar settlement.
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Translates to: it's time for me to stock up on more Xbox 360s
No one cares because FireFox is dead.
They killed the addon ecosystem for "major speed improvements" that could only top Chrome in 2 benchmarks.
Such a waste of potential.
Heh, you should see my wife's laptop (being used more as a desktop due to heat problems) - every port is used, including 2 going out to a USB hub in the monitor, which is also filled up. The only ones that didn't get used were the firewire.
Neither of which are significantly better than the budget laptop I bought years ago.
2 HDD slots, i7-3630QM, 8GB RAM, 17" screen, GTX650M, with more ports.
Obviously 8th gen is better than 3rd gen, 32>8, and an incrementally better graphics card but overall, given that in today's dollars I paid $250 less... and in Canadian dollars not USD. Things are really going backwards.
We need to start a storage arms race. I could easily use PB HDDs but we're barely advancing on that front. Phones should start at terabyte storage, not laptops.
As someone with ADHD and been on most of the meds: DUH!
Yes, the meds help focus. This is particularly helpful for hyperactive symptoms where, as they describe it, "a thousand thoughts happen at once" - it's very helpful to focus amidst all that noise. It also helps to speed up things very slightly to deal with the slower than normal pathways the ADHD brain uses.
It doesn't help working memory, one of the worst aspects, nor does it help impulse control. Memory might be improved by Alzheimer medication but ultimately medications are an aid, not a cure.
As a linguist will tell you - "originally" doesn't mean shit. It's what is it currently used for that matters - which is a wide range of white liquid substances
You can buy coconut milk in stores too. Milk simply refers to a milky white liquid - it's not specific to mammal milk. They don't call it Milkweed because it has nipples, they call it that due to the milky white sap. Almonds have a milky white liquid when pressed, etc.
Gorilla glass seems so uninteresting after https://www.popularmechanics.c...
Tech doesn't need to stay rooted in any country. You can't break them up because if you try they'll just move. If you do break them up, another global tech firm can swoop in and put the smaller players out of business. If you break up Alphabet, then Baidu is waiting in the wings to replace them and out of reach of US regulators. Tech is a global arms race which is why you see things like Justin Trudeau making it a national initiative to poach AI experts.
The diamond market is already being propped up - multiple massive deposits in Russia aren't being mined.
So what you're really saying is that there are 21 600 000 000 cubic kilometers worth of diamonds and they really are just worthless rocks - not worth the thousands people spend on them. Yes, it makes perfect sense.
Acquisition was $80 billion... AT&T overpaid by $20 billion so it's got to get the money from somewhere I guess
$4 billion profit on $2 billion investment per year isn't profitable enough?
Actually, it was more predominant in those under 65 and no correlation was noted regarding pre-existing conditions. It did note that women were affected more than men, suggesting that the increased rate of sleep deprivation in women may play a factor.
They should eliminate it simply based on the increase in heart attacks it causes.
Seriously - I wouldn't want to share my car with some slob like me
Companies don't show employees respect anymore - a gazillion interviews, testing, privacy invasion of social accounts, etc. and if you're not the candidate they're going to choose, they ghost you in a heartbeat.
Why should sought after employees treat companies any better than they treat employees who are seeking to work for them?
Latency is largely out of their control - it's a pile up of middle men.
What they did do is shut down the service and discontinue the game because it was too costly... every single time.
Until recently you could watch John Oliver on YouTube - not the full episode but the main story. They've blocked Canadians from accessing it, likely at the behest of Bell Canada who owns TMN Go, the service you need to subscribe to at that link.
That means you need a cable package that includes The Movie Network (extra $20 on top of the cable package, so a minimum of $45)
Compare that with HBO Now at US$14.99
CBC even did an article on it: http://www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
...so we all turn to VPNs & piracy for the simple ability to access content
Don't forget "Experiments" which are exempt from the standard privacy policy and can collect any information they want.
The problem with UBI in the manner you describe is inflation/buying power. It just becomes UBI + Minimum Wage = subsistence living. In the scenario the Ontario Government is pursuing everyone would get UBI. The claw back is done by the employer not the government, so 50% of the wage earned, up to double UBI is sent back to the government and once you exceed the cap 100% of UBI.
Example:
UBI of $17,000 + Minimum Wage, you now know that your average individual is making a before tax income of $46,120.
UBI of $17k + claw back the average minimum wage individual is making a before tax income of $31,560
The latter makes UBI money significantly larger in terms of buying power so that the person who's out of work can still afford the basics. Taking rent as an example (30% of gross), it's the difference between average rents of $1150 and $800. Someone on $17k would be spending 55% towards rent at $800, difficult but doable. At $1150 that's 81% of UBI towards rent which, while doable in the short term, is insanely difficult and requires a lot of sacrifice (including your health - I can attest to that fact as we did it for 3 years - it was fucking brutal)
Ontario already has that... OSAP when students parents are not wealthy enough to afford to send their children to post-secondary and Second Career which pays for retraining - up to 2 year programs I believe.
Part of the benefit of this program is eliminating dehumanizing and expensive bureaucracy. Rather than going through all sorts of hoops to qualify as a class (welfare, disability, etc) they'd eliminate all those agencies and simply give everyone UBI that's clawed back as you start to get income. It's enough to keep you housed/fed but not much more so there's still an incentive to improve your situation. It would also empower minimum wage employees to be able to walk away from bad working conditions which should help improve the safety/abusive practices that go on at the minimum wage level.
For something like that you don't need an army of lawyers - just small claims court an a subpoena for Jeff Bezos to appear. He is legally responsible for all actions taken by his company after all. That alone would generate a settlement in most cases which turns a few hundred dollar return into a multi-thousand dollar settlement.